Chapter 32: Bruised Ego

The phone call took fifteen minutes.

Athena made sure of that.

She smiled when she saw Fiona’s red scrunched face and hard eyes, when she noticed Fiona’s quaking limbs.

She wondered if she should fake a call, maybe stretch it for twenty minutes, to see how long Fiona’s facade would last.

Fifteen minutes didn’t seem long enough again.

After all, hadn’t she knelt for hours in the rain, under the strict orders of Fiona and her mother?

So, she had the right to make another long call!

However, she had some work to do. She also had to pick her children from school.

"How are you feeling, Fiona?"

Fiona stamped down the urge to flare and cuss. She rather sighed, as if she was near the gates of death.

"Athena, I feel sick, to be honest. I’m sorry for kneeling in the first place. I should have asked for your permission. Can I stand? I think I will die if I stay in this position longer."

She placed her shaking hands on Athena’s table as she spoke.

When Athena glared at her, she took it down.

"Please, Athena, I’m sorry. Have mercy on me, please. Forgive me of my wrong behaviors. I had only been an overzealous youth then..."

"So, you are a mature woman now?"

Fiona bobbed her head.

"So why did you cause a ruckus the last time you were here?"

Fiona stayed silent, having no defense anymore.

Instead, she started sobbing very loudly, a few seconds later.

Athena was mildly startled at the swift change of events.

She snickered when a knock sounded on her door, and Ciara popped her head in.

"The doctors complain that the woman is noisy."

"Did you hear her, Fiona? You are noisy. You shouldn’t be that, especially when you are seeking a favor."

submissively. "I’m sorry for that." Still weeping. "I’m

in derision, and

I have received your gifts and flowers too. Let the past remain in the past." Athena finally spoke, tired of the charade. She had work to

of victory. "So, will you

felt a little faint, but she needed

I already agreed with Ewan after all, for twenty percent of

to fall to a sitting position on the floor, not believing what

did you just say?" She murmured, her voice almost a

fell from her

they weren’t false,

out of deep anger and hatred,

with a reply,

She was right.

red at Athena’s

rippled through her so much that she searched the office, with her eyes, for a weapon,

her phone rang then,

It was her father.

daunted her mission. She already knew

Athena, the latter was already going

know what to do with

got up on her feet, as

she turned to look at Athena. Her

you coming to

want." Athena

before the week runs out. You have

her treatment goes to another sick person. Go

knowing that if her mother died, her father would be too

any promise, Fiona. I said I will come. Now, go. Don’t make me talk too

wondered then how things had degenerated to this

from ruling Athena to begging for

and walked away from the office space, without giving

a pillar, opened her bag, and brought

for more than twenty minutes, before

barked out a sarcastic laugh, before placing the cigarette

Athena went through worse, before she

torture

fantasy brought a smile to her face, and an energy for the next phase

already made a deal with Ewan, she would surely treat her

latter now, she will work

shoe, hailed a cab and

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