FROM BANKRUPT TO BOSS

Chapter 5: She called him stagnant

"A kid?"

Kane wanted to laugh when he tasted the word she used again.

"What is this you're trying to do? You're spinning things because I caught your infidelity?"

It was even more shocking to him that Juliana could make such an utterance.

She didn't plead, she didn't beg, she didn't try to explain all of this even though it might not make any sense.

She had called him a kid.

"Well, well, well. Look who it is." A Smug croaking voice came from the dark corner of the room where Kane had refused to look since he entered. A belly appeared first then the familiar arrogant face of the same man who ruined his career a few hours ago.

It was his Boss. Badmus Kent.

He was in pants only, his dick coiled like doughnut in the elastic fabrics, sweats shimmered on his body and his face flushed from the earlier excitement from banging another woman who Kane trusted to be his fiancee.

But trust can be broken, and it had.

And this one was broken with a dick and something more that Julianna thought Kane couldn't offer her.

Kane was shocked to see his Boss in the room, smirking smugly at him. He looked away from him to Julianna and then to Badmus again, flipping the situation in his head for clear understanding.

"Look at you, boiling like you can really do something to me right now." He laughed, his belly shaking. Julianna laughed along like his words were entertaining. "I didn't expect you here so soon after I fired you. I thought you were going to walk to somewhere far and commit suicide out of depression or drown yourself to death."'

They laughed again.

Julianna pulled back her hair behind her ear like she was enjoying everything.

Kane stood still, chest heaving. His fist curled at the side as anger burned through his veins.

Badmus took one step closer, displaying a dirty grin under the light.

"I took your job, took your woman and the promotion that was meant for you, boy." He laughed at the finishing statements, a satisfactory cruel laughter of orchestrating another man's downfall.

Kane narrowed his eyes on him trying to make a meaning from his last statement.

"Yes, you got it. You think you can walk over me because you're intelligent, because you're diligent? The CEO gave a direct promotion order for the post of Assistant manager. But who has the power? I do. I got you removed, replaced by someone else."

Kane stopped cold.

His brow raised slightly.

"So," his voice was calm with understanding. "You fired me when I was given a promotion? Framed me for crimes I didn't offend because you felt threatened by my diligence to the corporate? Because you couldn't handle my shine?"

"You think you deserve it?" Juliana chipped in with a scoff, stepping down from the bed, wrapping the duvet properly to cover well. Her expression carried disdain, the real mask of the woman he thought he knew well. "Badmus has experience. He became the manager in just six months. Intelligence doesn't settle Bills. Smartness does. And Badmus has it. He's got connections, has money, growing generational wealth of the Kent family."

She paused, her lips twisting hard in repugnance.

She didn't hold back, spitting each word with venomous precision.

"But you...you have been there. Four years. Four fucking years Kane and you're still wiping desk. For how long will you keep scrubbing after people's mess? You think I'll open my eyes and settle for a man who's stagnant??!"