His wife
Alana arrived at the office, she found everyone busy, and she was informed Ricardo had visitors. Hence, she took some files and some coffee to Brigitte.
“You look tired, are you sure you slept fine,” Alana asked with a chuckle and handed Brigitte a cup of coffee. Brigitte let out an exhalation and took the coffee.
“Well, when you stay up all night nursing an old drunk man,” Brigitte said with a frown and slammed a file on the desk, Alana chuckled and took a seat. Brigitte was indeed tired, she had dark circles around her eyes.
“Well, just admit it… you want that man, he's handsome you know,” Alana remarked with a sly grin and Brigitte rolled her eyes in annoyance.
“No, he's a fool… tell me is the boss done, I saw Rocco and his men rush in,” Brigitte said while flipping pages of the file Alana delivered.
“I didn't see…what is he doing here?” When she came she went straight to her office, surprisingly, Felix was avoiding her.
“I'm sure something is up…how on earth do you explain? Rocco came here…that man, I don't trust him after what he did,” Brigitte said with disdain, Alana was lost in thoughts. Could it be that Ricardo managed to get his suppliers back? Alana was agitated and Brigitte saw that.
“Have these, they are delicious," Brigitte shoved a place of freshly baked pie to Alana who stared at it and shook her head.
“Nope, I…”
“This is yours, you should try it, it's nice…the supervisor gifted them to everyone for their hard work…this one's for you,” Brigitte said, cutting Alana off. The pie looked delicious and smelled wonderful.
“Still, well, if you insist…looks delicious,” Alana grinned and picked up a piece, both giggled and tasted the pie.
“As I was saying, it's strange to have Rocco around…are you sure you denied his proposal," Brigitte asked as both continued having their breakfast. Alana was glad to eat the pie since she didn't have any breakfast
“We should see, maybe something is wrong,” Alana said quickly and rose to her feet as soon as she ate half of the pie. Brigitte took a sip of her coffee and went after her friend. Once Alana and Brigitte left the office. They found countless employees gathered in a corner giggling and laughing,
“What's going on?” It was Brigitte who asked, and the ground glanced toward them and laughed even more. Eva emerged from the crowd and swung her phone like a toy.
“We are just laughing because of a video, “Eva said shrewdly and shifted her gaze to Alana, Brigitte was curious seeing how they were laughing and glaring at Alana.
“Bri, it's just that someone here is trying hard to seduce the boss,” one of the ladies said glaring at Alana, of course, Alana was not a fool to know what they meant.
“Just think about it, she's married and busy seducing the boss,” another one chimed in and all of them laughed mockingly.
“Bri let's go,” Alana muttered and grabbed Brigitte's hand and prepared to drag her away when. she felt embarrassed. why would they think she was that kind of a person. she had never done that before not even when some perverted lectures used to propose disgusting things to her. Alana knew she worked hard to earn merits. if she wasn't married to Ricardo. she wouldn't get to the extent of sleeping with him for a job.
“Face it, Alana, you are so cheap…you've been here not less than a month, and you are already getting naked for the boss!” Eva spat out disdainfully, shocking Alana for such vile words. She glanced at Eva and then at the other women. "just look at this...this is a video taken from the CCTV...our darling Alana flirting with sir and staying in her office late just to get his attention," Eva said and showed Brigitte the video they had been watching the entire time. Alana felt ashamed that she couldn't look
"Everyone have seen it, so stop pretending," Eva added sarcastically.
“Eva, that's enough…don't say that,” Brigitte said defensively and came to stand in front of Alana,
“What? I saw her last night…she pretended to be working because she wanted to remain alone with the boss,” Eva remarked pointing her finger at Alana, Brigitte jumped to Alana's rescue and started exchanging words with Alana. On the other hand, Alana was slowly withdrawing from the noisy crowd. She could only hear distant voices, her skin began heating such that hives and itching formed, making her skin flushed and pale.
Her breathing increased, and she could feel her tongue and throat swelling,
“Stop it now, Alana isn't like that, Eva stop…” Brigitte shouted, but stopped when she glanced back and saw Alana gasping for her. Everyone saw this, but none bothered to check on her.
“Alana, what's going on…what happened to you,” Brigitte asked when she caught Alana before she hit the floor and cradled her in her arms. Alana kept fidgeting, Brigitte saw hives forming on her skin and her tongue appeared swollen. Fear washed over her, not just her but even Eva and her friends. But they didn't dare move.
“Call someone!” Brigitte shouted when Felix rushed to where they were.
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Rocco was furious when Ricardo called security on him. He was angry at what Ricardo was doing. Ricardo was aware of Rocco's cheap tricks. and he capitalized on it and slapped him back.
“What? Does it hurt? I'm doing exactly what you are doing,” Ricardo remarked lazily and tossed a few files on the desk. Rocco was fuming in anger. His eyes flashed with rage that he nearly pounced on Ricardo when the security men held him off,
“I swear, you'll pay for this Ricardo… I'll make sure you pay dearly!” Rocco growled and struggled to get free, regardless of what the security men kept him in place.
“Throw him out, he's pathetic,” Ricardo gave his orders and rose to his feet.
“Who do you think you are….” Rocco growled as the security men started dragging him out of Ricardo's office, led by Dennis. Ricardo didn't care as he followed just to make sure he was thrown out.
When Ricardo and everyone reached the reception, they stopped when they heard the commotion. Ricardo thought he heard wrong, but Dennis was fast enough to rush down the left passageway to find out what was happening. Rocco too was interested to know what the chaos was all about.
Ricardo didn't stay but decided to see on his own, Dennis came back just then.
“Sir…madam is having a fit…something happened to her,” Dennis reported back anxiously. Ricardo didn't even wait to hear the rest of the story when he rushed to see it. When he got there, he found his wife in the arms of another man having a fit. Felix was about to carry Alana in his arms when Ricardo pushed her away and dropped her to his knees before Alana. Shocking Felix and everyone around
“What happened here? move away” Ricardo asked as he tried to check Alana, she was fidgeting and shaking violently. He checked her pulse and it was bad. Her skin was turning red, and her face was swollen.
“We don't know sir…she just collapsed,” Brigitte replied as Ricardo lifted Alana in his arms. Eva saw this and frowned.
“Dennis, the car now!?” Ricardo ordered and Dennis nodded and stormed away from there.
"Move away!" Ricardo yelled and took off his coat and tried to cover Alana when she shoved it away.
"H-help...it's...hurting," Alana gasped helplessly and draped her hand on Ricardo's shoulder. he leaned down and cupped her face. her eyes were swollen.
"Sweetheart, remain calm... you'll be fine," Ricardo said with desperation as he inspected her, caressed her cheeks and neck. those around him watched in anticipation, Brigitte was surprised, Felix's eyes narrowed suspiciously and Eva glanced at the other friends.
"It's...ah," Alana muttered and collapsed in his arms. Ricardo was desperate, anxious that cold liquid broke on his forehead.
"What did she eat, what did you give her?" Ricardo asked desperately and Brigitte came forward, she was nervous thinking it was pie Alana ate.
“Sir, please don't touch her…who knows what she's suffering from,” Eva said sarcastically, not bothered by Alana's condition, why was the boss so concerned about Alana. She hated it. Ricardo ignored her, but when Eva's friends chimed in to slander Alana, he completely lost it.
“Yes sir…what if she has some illness…we don't want you getting sick,” another one
“Keep your mouths shut, she's my wife…do you hear that…my wife!” Ricardo growled loudly and turned around to look at the people standing around him and Alana, not just Brigitte and Eva but Felix and the rest thought they heard wrong as they looked at their boss carrying Alana's bridal style
"If any of you hurt my wife in any way...get ready to shoulder the consequences!" Ricardo yelled with rage and hurried away from there.
All of them stood with their mouths hanging in awe as their gazes followed Ricardo as he disappeared down the corner, shocked at what just happened.
