Desires Die Hard

Chapter 63

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.”

“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!

in sticking around either. She threw one last angry glare at Anya before stalking out of JK Couture.

in the morning had not caused Anya any

ruined her

had interrupted Anya while she had been in the middle of designing Mdm

worse.

were in

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

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in the pantry at the moment.

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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

the glass

her best friend, Cindy,

had returned to the

Cindy’s call. You could literally see her brighten up like the skies after a storm. Her voice

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

you up at the airport. Let’s meet after I

can’t wait to see you again.” Cindy sounded equally excited. It had been years since she had last

forgotten how her best friend looked

she become prettier while Cindy

a

together. In fact, they should have been returning to the country together right now. But then something had happened in her

have been separated for so

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.