Desires Die Hard

What a vicious oath! Only a woman as vicious as Sydney could’ve thought of such an oath. Anya stared quietly at the woman. All she wanted to do right now was grab the glass of water on her desk and throw it at Anya’s face.

She wanted to tell the woman to get out of her office.

But she couldn’t do that. She had to swallow her pride and bide her time before she fulfilled her ambitions.

Anya knew that she wasn’t powerful enough right now. She couldn’t act rashly.

Honestly, her stomach turned at the thought of making that oath.

But she had to stop Sydney from harassing her any further, Intruding into her personal life and dragging her precious kids and Ellie into the mess. She shoved down the abhorrence she felt towards Sydney and uttered the oath.

A look of satisfaction settled on Sydney’s face. “I’m going to hold you to your word.”

“I’ll hold you to yours too. Stay away from me. I don’t want you in my life.” Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.

“Do you think I want you in mine?” Sydney raised her eyebrow at Anya in disbelief before spitting out viciously. “You think. too highly of yourself!”

“You can go now.” Anya didn’t want to spend another second with her.

The sight of Sydney brought up memories of her own mother.

If only the MacMillans had done the little that had been needed to keep her mother alive.

They were the reason her mother was dead. They had killed her mother,

She would never forget that!

“Hmph!” Sydney wasn’t interested in sticking around either. She threw one last angry glare at Anya before stalking out of JK Couture.

Sydney’s unexpected visit in the morning had not caused Anya any trouble.

But it had ruined her great mood that morning

The fact that she had interrupted Anya while she had been in the middle of designing Mdm Welton’s hat had made things

worse.

Her thoughts were in a mess now.

She didn’t want to make any mistakes in the design. Anya got up and went to the pantry. She decided to make herself a glass of fruit juice. She told herself to calm down and pull herself together. She needed to turn her thoughts back to Mdm Welton’s hat and its design.

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There was no one in the pantry at the moment.

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Anya got a sachet of ready–made fruit juice and dumped it into her glass. She added some hot water and stirred the drink. Then, with her fingers clutching the glass tightly, she leaned against the counter and started sipping at her juice slowly as she tried to pull herself out of the sour mood that Sydney had put her in.

She went through half the glass of juice.

Then, her best friend, Cindy, called.

She had returned to the country.

Anya’s spirits rose when she got Cindy’s call. You could literally see her brighten up like the skies after a storm. Her voice was filled with excitement and glee. “Cindy! Are you back?”

“That’s right! I’m at the airport. I called you as soon as I landed.”

“Really?” Anya said. Her voice was trembling with excitement. “I’m at work now. I can’t pick you up at the airport. Let’s meet after I knock off work today. Are you okay with that?”

“Of course! It’s great! I can’t wait to see you again.” Cindy sounded equally excited. It had been years since she had last seen Anya

Cindy had almost forgotten how her best friend looked like.

Had she become prettier while Cindy had been gone?

Anya had always been beautiful since she had been a kid. She had been a princess to them all.

They could have gone abroad to study together. In fact, they should have been returning to the country together right now. But then something had happened in her family.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been separated for so many years.

Cindy didn’t want to dwell on that. The thought made her chest twinge painfully. “Drop by the new apartment my dad got me when you knock off work. I’m not moving back to my parents” place in the meantime. We can have a good heart–to-

heart talk.”

“Okay.” Anya nodded her head profusely. “Text me your address.”

“Sure,” Cindy said in a chirpy voice. She was clearly looked forward to their reunion. “L’ll see you later this evening then.”

“Yup. See you!”

Anya ended the call. She was feeling so much better now.

She decided to head back to her desk with her glass of fruit juice and get back to work.

It was then that her phone rang again.

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Anya’s eyes flew to the unfamiliar number blinking on her screen.

After a moment of hesitation, she answered the call.

The warm voice of Mdm Welton sounded from the other end of the line. “Hi, Ms. MacMillan. Do you have time to have lunch with me later? Let’s talk about my hat.”