Too late for a second chance (Lila and Dorian)

Chapter 2

"What did you just say?" Lila thought she had misheard Dorian.

With a cold face, he repeated, "Put all your work on hold and only come back once you've calmed down. Also, hand over that movie project to your assistant."

She stumbled slightly, yelling, "What gives you the right?"

Taking a long, deep breath, she finally calmed down a little. "I can hand over other projects, but not this one! I secured that movie project myself, and you have no right to take that away from me."

However, Dorian scoffed like he had heard a joke.

"You secured it? With what? Did you think that the producer would've met you if it weren't for my connections and resources? Have you become so full of yourself, Lila?"

Lila was in utter disbelief, scanning him from head to toe as if a stranger had stood before her. "You're saying I relied on your connections? Where's your conscience, Dorian?

"I made you; I got you all the opportunities with my effort. And you're telling me now that I was the leech?"

His countenance remained cold. "We're bringing up the past now, huh, Lila? Well, let me ask you: would you have acted as ridiculous as you are now in the past?"

Lila took a step back, finding it hard to believe that this was reality. Her pale complexion concerned Dorian.

"Come on, Lila, just stop it. No one will ever replace you in my heart."

She found it ironic. "And what about Zara? What is she to you?"

The impatience he had suppressed reignited. "I see her as a sister. How many times do I have to repeat myself?"

Lila covered her eyes, taking a few long seconds to repress her urge to cry. "Stop lying to yourself, Dorian. I know I'll get replaced at any minute since Zara's return, and you want to fire me as your agent."

"Lila!" Dorian had become angered at this point. "Zara has nothing to do with your dismissal as my agent. I wanted another agent because I needed the resources in the fashion industry, and she happened to fulfill that criteria.

"You know how much I hate repeating myself, yet I do it time after time for you. How are you not satisfied yet?

"Besides, didn't you have more time to pursue your directing and photography endeavors after the dismissal? What was so wrong about giving you what you wanted?"

elicited an exasperated laugh from Lila. "Giving

and harbored the thought of dismissing Lila as his agent.

so he could smoothly acquire the new agent's resources. In the end,

to doubt

this-her eyes were red and filled with self-doubt, yet she radiated an unmistakable intensity. When he reached out,

her; she was supposed to be obedient, elegant, and aloof, and she should cling to him like

massaged his brows to calm himself down. "If you like

No matter how much she had said, in Dorian's eyes, she was merely making a

agent, don't you? Fine. You can

came out bitter and helpless.

you, Dorian," she

get engaged once my work is stable by the end of the year. Then, we'll get married

smile appeared on Lila's face. Those moments used to be the time she longed for the most, yet

into silence, Dorian stared at her coldly without a tinge of patience. She looked up again and enunciated, "I just want

and his impulse overtook his rationality. Choking her,

soon as she closed her eyes. The beads rolled off her face and hit the back

seven years, yet despite everything she had been through, he had never seen her cry once. Dorian panicked, albeit for just a fleeting second. He was

you over the years that you're now threatening me

You're emotionally unwell, so take a break from work and

thought things out," he instructed with authority and left soon

trance for a long time. Right then, her phone pinged with a few text

hand over the movie project you've been following recently

She didn't want to stay another second in the office and exited weakly. As she arrived at the end of

put off

humble and low-key. Now that she's lost his favor, I wonder how she'll continue

even deserve to step into this

that her work has been put on hold, Dorian will only kick

room and happened to run

a cup of coffee, she was ready to discard it. She splashed it onto Lila