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?"

line elicited an exasperated laugh from Lila. "Giving me what

eyed the resources of that potential new agent and harbored the thought of dismissing Lila as his agent. However, he had no clue how to come clean to

acquire the new agent's resources. In the end, the narrative became the opposite that he was the one who fulfilled

she began to doubt her

with self-doubt, yet she radiated an unmistakable intensity. When he reached out,

this version of her; she was supposed to be obedient, elegant, and aloof, and she should cling to him like a kitten

calm himself down. "If you like that

helpless as if she were punching a pillow. No matter how much she had said, in Dorian's eyes, she was merely making a scene because of a bracelet. What he

added, "You like to be my agent, don't you? Fine.

and helpless. "I don't want

even you, Dorian,"

was annoyed by her tone of despair. "Then, what do you want? A proposal? Fine. We can get engaged once my work is stable by the end of the

used to be the time she longed for the most, yet they felt undesirable

tinge of patience.

chest tightened, and his impulse overtook his rationality. Choking her, he scolded, "You're a stubborn fool,

eyes. The beads rolled off her face and hit the back of his hand.

known her for 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 confident

to you over the years that you're now threatening me

take a break from

you've thought things out," he instructed with authority and

in a trance for a long time. Right then, her phone pinged with a few text messages from the head

All your work has been put on hold. Please hand over the

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

put off all

people need to be humble and low-key. Now that she's lost

even deserve to step into

on hold, Dorian will

the room and happened to run into Lila. "Hey,

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