The following two days have been peaceful for Ariel Ann, with Elvira’s engagement put on hold after she was discharged from the hospital. However, good days don’t last.
Ariel had just resumed her office when she saw Elvira Ann standing by her door; she pursed her lips and frowned.
Why was she here?
“Sister, I can see that you are finally out of the hospital, but you didn’t look sick.”
Elvira frowned.
“I’m not here to chit-chat with you. Who exactly do you think you are? You don’t know anything about how a company runs, yet you think you can decide” Elvira Ann started shouting as if she was talking to an employee without caring about the onlookers.
Ariel pushed the door open, entered her office and shut the door, leaving Elvira Ann outside.
The onlookers giggled on seeing how embarrassed Elvira looked after being ignored.
To save herself from embarrassment, she pushed the door open and yanked Ariel’s hand to face her.
“Why are you here shouting?” Ariel asked, keeping her at arm’s length.
“Who the heck do you think you are? Ariel Ann? Father had only requested you to invest in the company, and you’re making things difficult for him. Aren’t you going too far? It’s not a big deal, it’s just a little money you invested in the company, and then you send people to come and supervise. The people didn’t understand how things work in the Ann, so you want to know everything and participate.”
“Sending people to supervise the Ann company wasn’t my idea. Just take a look at it with so much money being invested, it’s only right for Anderson’s Company to send people, is there a problem”? Ariel Ann said in a cold and dispassionate tone.
Ariel Ann was not interested in talking to Elvira Ann, neither did she want to get in touch with her.
“Ariel Ann, do you think I’m dumb? I know what you’re trying to do. You want to take revenge on us by controlling the company.”
“Why should I take revenge on you people? The company originally belonged to me”
“You…”
“I have never asked about the company matters before, even when I worked there you were my superior. If it wasn’t because it was my mother’s hard work and sweat, I wouldn’t be bothered about whether the Ann company survived or died. Listen Elvira Ann, now that the investment has been made you will continue to see people from the Anderson’s coming over to guide them.”
Elvira Ann was angry beyond words, she pointed at her angrily with fire coming out of her eyes.
“Ariel Ann, know this and know peace, don’t get cocky too early. Without father asking you to marry Rex Anderson, did you think you can get to this position? If you go on like this you will lose the support of the Ann family. You really think because you are now married to Rex Anderson you’ll become the young mistress. What a joke. Do you really think you can win a man’s heart with your pretty face?”
Elvira said a lot of things that did not make much sense to Ariel.
“I’ve never been supported by the Ann family, and you know very well why I married Rex Anderson back then. You were pregnant with Damian’s child and your father couldn’t bear to allow his precious daughter to marry Rex Anderson. He wanted you to marry Damian, so he forced me to marry Rex Anderson. Elvira Ann, you didn’t come here to talk about the company, you saw that marrying Rex Anderson put me in the position of vice president, so you abandoned Damian and your child and came here to make a ruckus, right?”
Being found out by Ariel, Elvira’s eyes flashed with guilt and panic. However, she quickly covered it up.
“Ariel Ann, I’m waiting for the day you will come crying” Ariel chuckled.
“I also can’t wait for the day you cry”
“Ariel Ann, we’ll see” she turned around and left, slamming the door.
Ariel wished she could just go back to the year her mother died and replace Timothy Ann with her.
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When Elvira Ann left Ariel’s office, she took out her phone and sent a message to Rex Anderson.
“Ariel Ann, don’t think too highly of yourself!”
After waiting for a while, Rex Anderson called.
She wore a broad smile on her face, cleared her throat and answered with a gentle yet sad tone, “Rex, it has been long since I heard from you, what are you doing?”
Rex Anderson’s hand, which was typing away on the computer at starlight, paused.
“I was reading a fashion magazine, why do you ask?”
“Rex, I’ve suffered injustice today, I just went to visit Ariel as her elder just to check on her, but she embarrassed and scolded me. With that, Elvira Ann started sobbing “My heart is heavy, I can only call you, Since I have no one else to talk to”
“Don’t take it to heart, she’s just temperamental. Tell me if you have anything.”
Elvira’s tears flowed. She sat in her car and cried “how can my sister always treat me this badly? I went to have a good talk with her. I even begged her, so she could understand that there was nothing between me and Damian. Why can’t she just reconcile with me? Was it because we were not born of the same mother that made her hate me this much? Rex, you may not know this, but I’ve always treated my sister as my closest family member. So many times that I have tried to get close to her, she’s always hostile to me! Rex, what should I do?”
“If I should be honest with you, I would advise you to stop looking for her. She’s been busy dealing with the company these days and that may also make her be in a bad shape, which was the reason why she took it out on you.”