Anne's fingers clenched into fists at her sides as she watched Emily under her lashes. She was more than angry, and even disappointed at Brittany for letting Emily sit at their table. She utterly despised Emily and now, even worse for the words that she had just told her, and the attention that she was gathering for herself. "Get used to seeing me around here," Emily spoke after Anne sat down beside Brittany. She continued,"You should know by now, Anne. I never back down when I am onto something. Now, I am on to Ellis. And as you can tell for yourself, I am back where I used to be. I don't need to tell you what to do next, sweetie. You know what to do. Leave Ellis the fuck alone."Anne opened her mouth to speak back, but Emily was quick to cut her off. "Oh, don't waste your breath now," Emily said. "I have done all the talking. All you have to do now is listen. Things will be better that way." With that, Emily stood up slowly and left. Her friends followed behind her too, as she l
Anne's reign as the sexiest girl at Royale College was quite a long one, thus dethroning Emily for quite a while. Emily had actually not seen Anne keeping up with her Instagram image coming well like this, until it played right before her. This made Emily more than envious of Anne. Anne had the attention of everyone in school and Emily feared that she might have Ellis in her chokehold too. And that would mean that Anne had won her in their game of who had an upper hand. Ellis was the price, whoever got him was the winner.Emily got totally fed up with Anne's show and charade one day, and decided to do something about it. She gave it so much thought, and when she could come up with nothing, she settled at the one thing she had always contemplated. Spreading deadly rumors about Anne. A few days later, Emily took her plan to action. Fueled by simmering resentment, Emily made a calculated plan to say the words so that Sarah Thompson, one of Anne's friends would hear. Sarah was known for h
Dennis Kingsley had been nursing a growing hatred for Ellis ever since the day at the Royale Company that he was humiliated, and decided to do something about Ellis today. He had totally hated having to kneel in front of little Ellis to plead for being rude to him before his introduction. It was such an insolent and belittling thing for Dennis who was a vain control freak, and he badly wanted to teach Ellis a lesson for making him embarrass himself in public like that. His hatred grew when the humiliation happened a second time, and this time it was in front of all the board members.Dennis slammed the door behind him as he entered his office, his face flushed with anger and humiliation. How dare that little punk Ellis make him kneel and beg for forgiveness like some kind of court jester? This whole thing was getting unbearable for him. He and Ellis never got along, he knew, but he did not think it would come to this. He did not think it would come to Mr Cyrus asking him to apologise
His buzzing phone interrupted his musings. Glancing at the caller ID, Dennis saw it was the chief director from accounting calling. He took a deep breath, forcing himself to push aside his churning emotions and slip back into the charming yet professional demeanour he typically wore when relating to his superiors. "Isabelle, hi! What can I do for you?" he answered in an affable tone."Am I on to Mr Kingsley?" The voice asked. "Yes, you are.""Oh," she relaxed, "you sounded quite different there, so I had to confirm. The auditor general would like to have a view of the net worths of our competitors right away. Please make your way to his desk with the information.""Okay. Thank you, Isabelle." Dennis maintained his sweet voice."Also, make a duplicate copy for my desk. I will be needing the information as well.""Yes, ma'am.""Thank you."There would be plenty of time to torment Ellis Royale in the days and weeks ahead. For now, he had a role to play — the perfect, model employee and
Dennis's next plan to sabotage Ellis was to make him make a fool of himself in the upcoming marketing presentation to the board. The marketing department were to present their new marketing ideas to the board members for approval, every year. As it turned out, this year, Ellis had joined them, and as a part of his training in the department, he was given a topic to make a presentation on. Ellis began his preparations, ranging from research to statistical analyses, and practising public speaking. He did these diligently, so as to make a good impression on the board, and be granted approval to move on to another department for his internship. Ellis felt his face flush with embarrassment as confused looks spread across the board members' faces. This was clearly not the presentation they had been expecting from the soon to be CEO. His shoulders slumped as he realised with dawning horror that Mr Dennis Kingsley must have made a mistake with the topic, or intentionally misled him about it
Mr. Cyrus did as he said and began to look into Dennis's files. He wanted to know how Dennis managed the department, and to find out how he could mix up Ellis's presentation topic without anyone noticing. This began the next day after the presentation, and in less than a week after that, Mr Cyrus found more than he was looking for. Mr Cyrus slammed the file down on his desk with a resounding thud. His face was flushed with anger, and his eyes burned with a fury that only a few had ever witnessed. The documents before him painted a picture of betrayal and malice that shook him to his core.Dennis Kingsley, the manager of the marketing department, had been stealing the company's proprietary ideas and selling them to a rival firm. Not only that, but there was enough proof apart from the presentation mix up that he had been actively sabotaging the work of Ellis. The audacity to do that to Mr Cyrus's own son and heir apparent to the Royale empire was just too appalling to think about. Mr
The news of Denis trying to sabotage Ellis went round the whole company. Every department was aware. and it was always the topic of discussion. They also knew that Dennis was investigated, and discovered to be a traitor. News of him being arrested had also spread around the company. Some employees were shocked that Dennis would dare try to harm the future CEO of their company when everyone else was desperate to gain Ellis’ favour. Some of them who secretly hated that Ellis just became rich overnight were speculating that it was really Ellis’ fault, and they just made up crimes against Dennis to cover up for him because he was the heir. They would never dare say this to Ellis’ face though, they weren’t stupid enough to put their jobs on the line. As for the board members who were on Marcus’ side, and were trying to bring Ellis down, they knew they had to be more careful now. None of them wanted Mr Cyrus to start investigating them, because most of them had skeletons in their own clos
Ellis stared dubiously at the gift basket sitting proudly on his study desk. It was a lavish arrangement of gourmet snacks, fine wine, and an assortment of expensive sweets. A note was attached, written in Marcus’ daughter’s writing. Though he wasn’t close with his new niece, so he didn’t identify her writing, he only knew it was her because she wrote her full name underneath the note.‘Dear Uncle Ellis,This is a token from my brother and I. We hope you enjoy these tokens of our affection. We want to put the past behind us and start anew as a family. We know that none of us have really been welcoming, but it is only due to the circumstance by which you were added to our family. We wish to make amends for our previous behaviour towards you. Please accept our invitation to an outdoor dinner this Saturday evening. Jackie and Sean.’Ellis frowned deeply. Marcus's children had never shown the slightest interest in him before. In fact, their disdain for him had transferred from their fath