The Silent Heir

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Ethan sat at his desk working while Nina was giving him the update on all that was being said about him on the company group chat.

He answered by nodding his head from time to time making it seem like he was very focused on the conversation.

“Can you believe it, someone even said you are one of those people who take advantage of others”

He finally reacted when she said this.

“Take advantage of other people? How” he asked with a puzzled look.

“Its very simple, that lady called you her boss yesterday, and when you ignored her and left the cafeteria, the rest of the workers were saying you are a proud person who is cheating such a beautiful lady and was now pretending to not know her, “ she said.

“And how is this taking advantage of her, I still don’t get the point? “ he asked.

Nina looked around and saw that most of the workers were giving him some ugly looks from time to time.

She felt the rage she had kept in her heart the previous day was about to unleashed itself .

She tried to ca