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!

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

in the morning had not caused Anya

it had ruined her great

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

worse.

in

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

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no one in the pantry at

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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

the glass of

friend, Cindy,

to

You could literally see her brighten up like the skies after a storm. Her voice was filled with

I’m at the airport. I called you as soon as

you up at the airport. Let’s meet after

Cindy sounded equally excited. It had been years since she

how her

become prettier while Cindy had

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

been returning to the country together right

separated for so many years.

new apartment my dad got me when you knock off work. I’m not moving back