The Sweet Poison Of Revenge

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I did not answer her and turned back to the counter to finish my whiskey. I really needed it. Hearing Audrey talking about our marriage was something I still could not face. Not for nothing, nobody knew that I had been married and all the old employees of Thunder and Larson Company had been fired. A decision I had made shortly after the divorce, during one of the worst times of my life and under the influence of alcohol that flowed through my veins from morning to night.

“Don't worry, Zane. Your name does not appear on my resume. It just says that I am divorced and worked for seven years at the Kreinberg Company. “

"Perfect."

"I didn't even mention I opened the Thunder and Larson Company with you. By the way, how is your work going? "

"It doesn't concern you," I replied dryly to her vaguely irritated and offended tone.

I stared at her again.

She seemed decisively annoyed and angry.

"You are right. It is none of my business, even though I spent three years of my life there. I just hope you're working hard to make your agency successful,” she answered provokingly, making me instantly nervous.

I quickly got up from the stool and eliminated the distance that separated us.

I was so close that I could smell her brown hair.

“The Thunder Company is already an established agency. I have worked hard to get where I am now, and I am proud of the results. My life is filled with successes, money and fame ... unlike yours, as far as I can see. "

"You really don’t know."

“Am I wrong or are you here to look for work as a bartender? It is obvious that to get to this point you have to be in a bad situation both economically and professionally. What has happened? Rick doesn't take care of you anymore? Maybe he is looking for a job too, maybe as a dishwasher? "

“I haven't seen Rick in four years, Zane, but you're right. I'm not doing well, but even if from the outside it seems that you are the career man you want everyone to see, I don't think it's really like that, otherwise you wouldn't drink alcohol at ten in the morning, with that brooding and worried attitude, when ten meters away you have a potential customer looking for an advertiser who can satisfy his requests to promote his new line of cosmetics, "she replied sternly, pointing to a blonde, middle-aged woman sitting at a table, in the company of what could have been her sister, given the great resemblance.

"And how do you know?" I asked, avoiding getting stuck on what she had said about Rick.

"I overheard her talking to someone at Prestige on the phone, saying she's not happy with her job and that she's looking for a new ad agency," Audrey explained.

I knew that woman. She was Savannah Summering, a rather fickle but extremely wealthy woman, passionate about make-up. I had tried to take her in, but the Marshall Company had preceded me.

"I know that woman. She has a reputation for being very unpredictable. I am not surprised the Marshall Company is having difficulty. However, I know their leading creative director and I know that he will be able to satisfy her requests ,” I commented, trying to remain impassive, even if inside me I already had in mind a way to bring Savannah Summering to my side.

"The Marshall Company?" Audrey wondered.

"Yes, are you familiar with it?"

"No, but I also have news about this agency: it has lost its chief creative director, and everyone is concerned about it."

That was some news!

The Marshall Company had always been one of my main rivals. The idea of seeing it fail made me jump for joy.

I would have stolen every available customer!

As well as the artistic director!

"Do you know why the creative director left?" I asked.

"I don’t know that. I only caught part of the conversation while serving lunch to a group of agency employees when I was working at Prestige. “

"What you've just revealed to me is extremely important and profitable, if used to my advantage."

"I know."

"Who else did you give this information to?"

"Nobody," she answered sincerely. “Even though I wanted to save it for the next job interview at the Keith Company. That is if I pass the first round of interviews. They've had my resume for four days now, but they never called me back. "

"I doubt they will."

"I think so too," she snorted in surrender, curling a lock of hair around her finger, as she did when she was nervous and worried.

It was unthinkable that such a clever woman in the marketing and administrative sector had been rejected during the preselection.

I had worked alongside her for six years and knew how smart and determined she was.

"What do you want in return, for you not to spread this news?"

"You want exclusive rights, if I understand correctly."

"Exactly. This is business. "

Audrey looked at me for a long time and with a strange intensity. She was the only one who could look at me like that.

That was how I fell in love with her.

In love…

I was not simply in love.

I was literally crazy about her.

So much so, that I could not think of anything but her.

I had to clench my fists not to touch her and get closer to her, with a sudden desire to kiss her.

'In return, I'm only asking for a little kindness. I do not want to revive the past and repeat for the umpteenth time the reasons for our separation are not what you think. I just want to start over and take over the reins of my life. "