Chapter 77: Harsh reality
Chapter 77- Harsh reality
Amanda’s manicured nails tapped relentlessly against the edge of her glass as her eyes burned with silent rage and crushed hope. She had tried. God, she had tried everything and her best to get rid of that wretched woman—Katherine.
Amanda had tried to pull strings by taunting Brenda to do it for her. She knew Brenda’s hatred ran deep for Katherine from her voice through the phone, yet Brenda hadn’t done anything tangible.
So Amanda took matters into her own hands. She’d slipped money to a few eager hotel staff members, whispering lies into their ears about Katherine. She paid them to spread a rumor—just a whisper, just enough—to get people talking. Katherine was a whore, chasing a married man. How hard could it be to plant something believable?
But within hours, the rumor was wiped out like it had never existed. Every staff member she paid was fired. Just like that, and no chance of appeal, no recommendation, no pity. Amanda had stared at the news in the staff forum, her lips parted and eyes wide in shock.
Amanda also posted an anonymous post on the hotel forum: There’s someone in this hotel shamelessly chasing a married man. She posted it, hoping to stir something within the staff, yet it barely lasted ten minutes before it vanished. The post was blocked, deleted with no trace of something like that having been posted.
Amanda felt her throat tighten and wanted to yank her hair from her scalp. Her attempt was futile.
Someone was protecting Katherine. She couldn’t do anything to her in the hotel.
Then Amanda had considered confronting Katherine directly again, backing her into a corner and demanding she stay away from Aaron. But her fingers ached just remembering what happened the last time she did that in Katherine’s office. Katherine had grabbed her wrist so tight that it took a week before it healed.
No. She shook her head and gulped, canceling out threatening Katherine.
So Amanda decided on something else—something twisted, yet it was a desperate measure and brilliant if it worked.