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!

wasn’t interested in sticking around either. She threw one last angry glare at Anya before stalking out of JK

in the morning had

her great

fact that she had interrupted Anya while she had been in the middle

worse.

in

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

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in the pantry at the

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the glass tightly, she leaned against the counter and started sipping at her juice slowly as she

through half the glass of

friend, Cindy,

had returned to

rose when she got Cindy’s call. You could literally see her brighten up like the skies after a storm. Her voice was filled

airport. I called you as soon as I landed.”

work now. I can’t pick you up at the airport. Let’s meet after I knock off work today. Are you okay with

sounded equally excited. It

almost forgotten how her

become prettier while Cindy had been

had always been beautiful since she had been a

could have gone abroad to study together. In fact, they should have been returning to the country together right now. But

separated for so

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