Samantha walked onto the stage like a proud woman.
Initially, she said a few polite words to thank everyone.
However, she suddenly turned to me.
With a fake smile on her face, she then said, "Daphne, I know you must feel very upset right now. But there is nothing you can do. Your ability is not as good as mine, your qualifications are not as good as mine and the position of sales manager was never going to be yours."
"Work harder and maybe I will give you more chances to prove yourself in the future."
Even though her words sounded like encouragement, I knew very well that she was actually mocking me and warning me. Now that she had become the sales manager, she would definitely find ways to make my life difficult. She surely had already been planning how to target me from now on.
However, what she did not know was that I had no plans to stay in the company any longer after today.
Since I was a small child, I had grown up with my adoptive father in the Catholic church in Tuscany.
If my parents, along with my eldest brother and sister-in-law, had not died, I would have never left the church and returned to the Browne Family. In the year I had worked at the company, I had already grown tired of all the fights and schemes.
After today, I planned to make sure the company wasn’t being unfair. I could see that Samantha was very ambitious. Not to mention, she always tried to build her own little group inside the company.
If she really married Nathan in the future, she wasn’t supposed to be allowed to continue working at the company.
I left the annual meeting early as i did not want to stay any longer. But just after I walked out, a van suddenly drove toward me at high speed and stopped not far from where I was standing. Before I could react, several strong men rushed out. towards me.
After that, those men shoved me roughly into a sack and threw me into the back of the van. I wanted to fight back, but I held myself back. I knew that if I really used my strength, I could easily break their bones and even kill them.
Ever since I was young, following my adoptive father, I had not only learned how to see through people’s intentions but also how to defend myself.
If I truly got angry, these men would not have been able to walk away unharmed. Eventually, I decided to endure it for now and see what they wanted to do. The moment I was kidnapped, I already had a guess about who was behind it. There was no one else it could be except Samantha.
What I could not understand was why she needed to kidnap me when she had just gotten promoted to sales manager today and had so much to celebrate. Why would she still be so anxious to deal with me?
The men locked me up in an old, dilapidated warehouse. They took off the sack from my head, but my hands and feet were tightly tied to a chair with ropes. I waited quietly as the sun went down and night came.
Finally, Samantha appeared, smelling of strong alcohol and staggering as she walked toward me.
Without saying a word, she slapped me hard across the face.
She let out a cruel and twisted smile as she said, "Daphne, I have hated you for a long time. I warned you many times, but you kept pretending not to understand."
"Did you really think I couldn’t do anything to you? I was planning to wait until after I married Nathan to deal with you, but I just couldn’t hold it in anymore."
She laughed coldly and continued, "I have to admit, you are good at business. If you stayed in the company, Nathan might not want to fire a golden goose like you. So I have no choice but to destroy you first!"
I looked at her without any fear.
My voice was calm and light when I said in response, "Just because I am better than you at work, you become this jealous and want to destroy me?"
Hearing my words, Samantha’s face twisted in anger. She grabbed a handful of my hair and slapped me again. This time, her slaps were even harder than her previous ones.
As she gritted her teeth, she screamed, "If you were only good at work and made more money for the company, I wouldn’t hate you so much! But you dared to seduce Nathan! That, I can never forgive!"
She stared at me with hatred and shouted, "Someone saw you going to the Browne Family’s old mansion yesterday. Was Nathan the one who took you there?"
