Chapter 26: Leave him alone!
The familiar voice reached my ears and my eyes landed on Stella who was staring dead into my eyes with clear disdain written all over her face.
I ignored her, turning to walk away when she ran up to me and roughly grabbed me by my arm, pulling me back. I clicked my tongue in annoyance and anger started to pulse inside my veins as I yanked my arm out from her tight grasp in an instant.
"What do you want?" I asked curtly as I glared at her.
A chuckle emerged from her throat. "What do I want?" She repeated with an incredulous look plastered across her face. "Did you not hear me earlier? I want you to leave Blake alone," her sharp voice pierced through the air as tension hung in the air between us like a thick blanket.
I smiled.
"How can I possibly leave him alone if I’m his new team lead? He reports to me now," I announced as a smirk tugged at the corners of my lips and my eyes gleamed with a knowing look which only made her anger grow.
She clenched her jaw and her fists were balled up beside her body, her knuckles were even starting to turn white from how hard she was clenching them. "I know about the report you made him do at the very last minute," she stated. "Why are you intentionally making his life difficult? Do you know how stressed he had been? Why can’t you just let it go?" She said, each word that left her lips was coated with a thick layer of venom.
I took a step closer to her, forcing her to step back as her strong demeanour immediately faded. I leaned down to close the small gap between us, our faces now dangerously close to one another.
"Why should I let it go?" I asked in a low voice as I raised my brow at her and watched as she swallowed her saliva inaudibly. "You are constantly all up on him and he lets you do it all these years. I think the two of you deserve what’s coming your way. If he’s that unhappy working for me then maybe he can find a job elsewhere."
She gritted her teeth. "You are unreasonable! Blake and I did nothing wrong, you are just insecure and jealous of our friendship!"
I let laughter slip through the gaps of my fingers as amusement twinkled in my dark brown eyes. "Insecure and jealous?" I tossed her words back at her. "Why would I be insecure and jealous over someone like... you?" I taunted as a smirk morphed itself onto my lips.