Chapter 4 You're Gonna Pay For This

"The rumors about Ms. Mien is becoming too much. I know it isn't true. But if ever it is real that she was having an affair with our head officer, she's such a devil sick bitch. Our boss's family will suffer the most."

Shenise bit her lip when she heard the conversation of her two officemates passing by the hallway.

Upon making sure that the two are already gone, she carefully opened the door of the pantry where she is in and went straight to the bathroom. She locked the door and looked at the mirror. This past few days, the complaint letters and rumors about her had escalated. The latest is her having an affair with their boss who already had a wife and kids. She's sure that Gaville is behind it. She can let the previous attacks go, but this?

She inhaled deeply to calm herself. How dare he! Shenise was seething with anger. Gaville had no right to include other people in their fight.

Out of nowhere, her mind went back to what happened last week when they brought the child that they helped in the hospital. Gaville had helped her then, even donated his own blood for the child…

(Flashback)

Shenise almost flew to the Emergency Room, calling for a nurse the moment the car stopped in front of the hospital. The doctors and nurses checked the child immediately. The child suffered from bruises and also has an internal bleeding due to being severely beaten up. Surgery was needed.

"The child needs blood transfusion for the surgery." The doctor told Shenise. She and Gaville were both standing at the hallway of the hospital. Gaville insisted Shenise to see a doctor to check on her too but like the little shit that she is, she brushed it off.

Shenise was about to offer herself for the blood donation but the doctor looked at her. "I know you want to help, but you yourself needs to be attended too." The doctor said sympathetically.

Shit. Shenise cursed at herself.

"Doc, I can be a donor." Shenise's gaze flew to Gaville. She almost forgot that Gaville is with her.

"That's good. Come with me and we'll run a few quick tests to ensure that you're fit to be a donor and that your blood type matches."

Gaville nodded and followed the doctor.

(End of Flashback)

Shenise irritably channeled her thoughts elsewhere. She shouldn't admire Gaville for what he did. Gaville was a mean chauvinist, capitalist pig. She needs to focus Gaville's image to one side only. She could not afford to see gray areas or else, she would not be able to fight him. And fight him, she would. What he's doing was too much. She wouldn't let other people get involve in their feud. She had to stop Gaville.

*****

"There you are, Gaville. I was looking for you all over the place." Shenise smiled sweetly at her fiancé as she gently held on to his arm. Then, she also smiled at the people around the table who are all business associates.

"Gaville, who could this lovely woman here be?" The hungry and malicious look of the man who spoke didn't go unnoticed by Shenise.

Well, what did she expect? Birds of the same feather flock together, right? Of course, the people at that party all have the same air in their brain like Gaville's, it was after all, the 76th anniversary of Atlantis Hotel. At that night too, is where Gaville will be formally introduced as the next CEO of the company. It's just natural that greedy and sex-craving businessmen, like Gaville are present in the event.

"I'm his fiancée, Shenise Mien." She introduced herself with a smile.

"Oh, is that true?" The lady standing close to Gaville, scrutinizingly assessed her from head to toe.

"Ah, yes." If Gaville was shocked at her arrival, he covered it up immediately. By now, she knows that Gaville is a good actor. He politely introduced her to his companions. "Everyone, this is my fiancée..."

*****

"Are you enjoying the party, my dear fiancée?" Gaville asked Shenise sweetly, but his eyes are shooting daggers at her. He placed his lips near her ear and whispered, "What the hell are you up to, you little witch?"

Shenise chuckled. "I'm here to pay you back- with interest, my dear fiancé." She whispered back, still smiling. "So, what are we talking here?" She quickly asked the group before Gaville could come up with a rebuttal.

"Business, of course." Sybil Fier spat. Heiress to Fier Group who had a chain of supermarkets all over the country and also the lady beside Gaville earlier.

"You mean you're talking about how you augment your humongous profits out of the blood and sweat of your employees?" Shenise smiled as she spoke. She saw Gaville's smile turned to grimace.

"What are you implying, Ms. Mien?" Sybil did not bother to hide her coldness and hostility towards her. Come to think of it, ever since she introduced herself as Gaville's fiancé, the lady had been hostile to her.

Hmm.. Shenise smelled something fishy.

"Oh, I didn't mean anything. I just think that your company have a very big problem Miss Fier. If I remember it correctly, you had a case in court, right? Because you don't pay the rightful benefits for your employees. Not only that, you also are being sued for Tax Evasion. So I just thought that when you said you were talking about business, you were talking about how you treat your employees despicably. You look at your employees as just machines providing you with money and you don't follow the law. That's how you do business, right?", Shenise almost laughed seeing Gaville's frozen expression while the faces of his business associates are horrified. Damn, Shenise was enjoying this.

"Ah, if you'll excuse-" Before Gaville could finish his sentence, Shenise cut him off.

"How about you, Mr. Kale?" She directed her attention to the middle-aged man who is currently the CEO of an oil corporation. "You're saying that you can't bring down the prices of oil drastically. I wonder why, seeing that the oil price was already low in the international market. How come when the price gets high, you follow as fast as a horse, but when it's the opposite, you have many excuses? How much is your profit again this year? 27 billion." Shenise said disgustedly. Then she continued. "My gosh. And yet, you insist the loss from under-recoveries. Talk about being a scumbag. Is that what you're talking about-"

"Ah, if you'll excuse us. My fiancée is not feeling very well." Gaville quickly pulled her away from the group. "You're gonna pay for this." Gaville said through gritted teeth as he dragged her away from the horrified group.