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?"

last line elicited an exasperated laugh from Lila. "Giving me what I wanted?" she

of that potential new agent and harbored the thought of dismissing Lila as his agent. However, he had

agent's resources. In the end, the narrative became the opposite that he

she began to doubt her relationship of five

she radiated an unmistakable intensity. When he reached out, it felt like he'd pricked himself on thorns, drawing blood with

elegant, and aloof, and she should cling to him

to calm himself down. "If you like that bracelet so much, I'll just take it back in two

words left Lila feeling 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 failed to understand was that this was the final nail in

"You like to be my agent,

out bitter and helpless. "I

even you, Dorian,"

do you want? A proposal? Fine. We can get engaged once my work is stable by the end

for the most, yet they felt undesirable at that moment. With that thought, she shook her

of patience. She looked up again and

overtook his rationality. Choking her, he scolded,

her face and hit the back of his hand. Feeling the abrupt warmth, he finally realized what he was doing and quickly

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.

been too nice to you over the years

so take

things out," he instructed with authority

in a trance for a long time. Right then,

hand

office and exited weakly. As she arrived at the end of the corridor, she heard gossip coming

Dorian really put off all

and clear. That's why people need to be humble and low-key. Now that she's

like her doesn't even deserve to step into this

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

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

ready to discard it. She splashed it