“Yes, Sir. I heard it loud and clear,” Diana answered on the other line. “I’ll take care of it now.” “I will also send you the recording later," Damian added and hung up the phone. He looked at John. “You should have changed your attitude while you still have a chance, but you decided to continue being a jerk.” “You don’t think that I fell for your trick, do you? Who will believe that you’re talking to Ma’am Diana?” John asked disdainfully. “I'll decrease your salary. I won't accept your resignation, too. You'll live in misery here." “You have been cheating on the company for a long time. You're passing all your workloads to the employees inferior to you, and resting like you aren't getting paid…” Damian matched John’s intense gaze. “Don’t you think you’re not making everyone live in misery by doing that?” “It's none of your fucking business!” John held Damian on the collar and gritted his teeth. “Why don’t you just turn a blind eye and work like you used to? Why do you need to int
“WHAT? Why me?” Nicole pointed at herself. “Because I know you’re capable of handling a mere intern like me,” Damian answered, emphasizing every word. “You did your job properly by not letting me enter the operations department earlier. I am not on the list, so you became firm on your decisions. It's commendable.” Kierra smiled, hearing the compliment Damian gave to Nicole. She didn’t know Damian’s real identity, but since Diana personally gave instructions to assist Damian, she knew Damian was a big shot. “You hear that? He can see how talented you are despite meeting for the first time,” said Kierra, her smile unwavering. “Guide him, okay? Tell him all the processes inside the operations department. Train him well.” “But ma’am… I have too much on my plate right now.” Nicole scratched her nape. She looked at Damian, her facial expression became cold again. “He’s only an intern. Why would we need to give him special treatment like this?” “I don’t take no as an answer,” Kierra answ
Nicole was astounded after hearing Damian's threat. She should not take his threat to heart, knowing that Damian is only an intern. But her heart racing fast, afraid that Damian would do what he had said. “You may be right. They treat me as an outcast here because I have a lower financial status than them. But remember this. I'll always be superior to you!” Nicole fumed, trying to conceal her nervousness with anger. “So, how dare you threaten me, you freaking intern?” “Threat? Do you think I'm threatening you right now?” In a snap, Damian's gaze became cold and menacing. “This isn't how I threaten people, Nicole. I'm not even starting yet.” And before Nicole could even react, Damian already left the operations department. While walking to the lobby, Damian saw how the other employees threw glances at him. Most of them looked disgusted and shocked because of his presence. They were telling him through their gazes that he didn’t belong there. If only they knew his real identity, al
Damian breathed heavily as he felt a pang of pain in his heart. When he opened his eyes again, he went back to reality where the reporters continued interviewing him. “What are you thinking right now? Do you regret all the things you did?” “People are talking to Ava Medivien about whether she's going to take legal action for this. Are you ready to take responsibility?” “Please give your damn statement! Don't just stand there like a useless fool!” The last statement from one of the reporters made Damian raise an eyebrow and clench his fist. How dare they ask for his statement in a rude manner? He didn't even permit this interview to begin with! “Everyone, make way, or else, we'll report this to the legal department!” Suddenly, a man's voice echoed in the whole place. It was Leo in his usual suit and cold expression, followed by Hera and the guards behind her. All of them looked intimidating and cold, stopping the reporters from talking for a while. “Please wear this, Sir.” Leo pl
“HEIRLOOM? No. I’m sure that it came from my adoptive mother.” Damian’s brows furrowed, taking the clip from Veron’s hand. “She had been taking care of me for as long as I could remember. Although we’re not blood-related, I treated her like a real mother for showing kindness to me.”“I didn’t mean to offend you, son,” Veron explained, clearing out his intentions. “It just exactly looks like the Cornerstone family’s heirloom.”As he scanned the silver clip earlier, Veron found out that the heirloom was authentic. Even the texture and the gold glitter surrounding the clip were the same. Veron smiled bitterly as he remembered how Sabrina Cornerstone, his wife, always showed that clip to him proudly when they were together.“I will give this to Damian someday, so he can regain all of my family’s wealth, too,” Sabrina said, smiling as she stared at the clip. “Someday, he will inherit all our businesses, and no one will be able to hurt him. No one.”The Cornerstone family was one of the hig
“Why are you looking for me, you brat?” Damian asked, smiling widely as he saw how frustrated Dollie was. “You should have looked at your sister instead.”He took the bag Dollie threw earlier at him. It was a Hermes bag that cost ten thousand dollars, a gift from Cielo Medivien, Dollie’s sister and Damian’s former father-in-law, as she passed her examinations before, yet Dollie threw the bag away from him just like that.“Why would I? She's a dimwit!” Dollie replied, her lips pouting. “How could she do that to you? Jeez, that witch—”“Here,” Damian interrupted Dollie’s blabberings by giving her the bag. “Don’t just throw your bag like that next time. Tone down your attitude of being a spoiled brat, can’t you?” he added in a playful tone.“I’m not a spoiled brat!” Dollie pouted more. She looked annoyed and happy at the same time.Damian felt the same. He smiled genuinely, seeing that Dollie didn’t even change a single bit after not seeing each other for a long time. Dollie had stayed i
After hearing Damian's words, Charlotte laughed loudly. Her tears even started to fall as she couldn't take her laughter anymore.“Can you even hear what you're saying? You? Paying for my bags?” She looked at Damian from head to toe. “Do you even know how much a bag costs in this store?”“Bags outside cost at least one thousand dollars each, but bags here in the VIP section cost at least fifteen thousand.” Damian looked at Dollie and smiled. “Did I get it right?”“Yes!” Dollie smiled, but it immediately faded when Charlotte gripped her in the arm.“Stop smiling like an idiot in front of this man,” said Charlotte, gritting her teeth,m. “Did you hear what he had said? He'll pay for my bag. Do you
“Did I hear it right? That poor, dirty man, requested for the department manager’s presence to pay for the bags?”“Is he out of his mind? Did he think that it’s easy to summon the department manager just like that? Who do he think he is?”“HAHAHA! What a pathetic move! Poor people really don’t have shame, do they?”The whole area was suddenly filled with laughter and buzz after hearing Damian’s statement. All of them looked at Damian with disgust and disbelief, including Charlotte, who couldn’t help but sneer and shake her head.“I can’t believe you. Why don’t you just surrender and admit that you lost against me? You just need to beg me to forgive you,” said Charlotte with a mockin