Contempt and envy at workplace
Joana pov
I recoiled and tried so hard to suppress myself from falling at the moment.
Heat blanket my face, and shame overwhelmed me.
From the moment I stepped inside this office, Zein had to ask what I was doing there. I wondered about her presence that filled this room.
Her presence was intimidating; her tone condescending, and her eyes filled with contempt for me, as if I were her enemy.
She dared him, and I became so speechless at her effrontery. Zein is the CEO, but this woman talks to him as if he's nothing but her puppet.
Perhaps Samantha was his wife or concubine, or he had a dirty secret of his own in her grasp.
And Zein always had this look of being scared of her etched in his face.
Zein was muted, eyes lowered, and brea
