Chapter 261 - Squirming

Jade didn't think she had heard well. Why did it seem like she had just heard Mr Alan's name and not Stephanie's.

"Mr Alan?" She turned to Julius and asked with uncertainty. She was sure he had called the wrong the name. It couldn't be him. Definitely not not Mr Alan.

"Yes" Julius nodded affirmatively.

Simon was also stunned when he heard Alan's name. Of all people he didn't think Alan could do something like this?

'There must a mix up somewhere. There has got to be a logical explanation for this' He reasoned.

"That's impossible" Simon said. It could be anybody else, but certainly not Alan. That man had one of the most enviable personalities in the company. He remembered how he had warned him to take care of his favorite intern, and he also remembered how he had defended Jade when she had that problem with Cale, so how possible was it that that same man was behind something as implicating as this?

Jade couldn't believe it, she hurriedly surfed through the flash and indeed she noticed a few stuff that carried Mr Alan's name, as well as a picture of him and his family. Jade felt like a lump in her throat, her stomach churned and her heart fall through the pit of her stomach.

She snapped her head towards Julius and asked in disbelief, "It's Mr Alan and not Stephanie?" even though she had seen it with her own eyes she couldn't believe it.

"Stephanie?" Simon asked looking at her with curious and confused eyes. Why would she ever think it was Stephanie?

Jade was too stunned to reply back to Mr Simon. She didn't want to accept the fact that the owner of be this flash was Mr Alan. The man had helped by her beyond measure, so it was quite difficult to accept something like this was even possible.

"Excuse me sir" Jade said as she picked up the flash drive and stormed out of the office with a graven look on her face leaving the others with alot of questions and confusion. She had to confront Mr Alan for this.

With anger seething in her eyes, Jade made her way to Mr Alan's office. She could feel her blood boil with so much anger. Mr Alan had better have a good explanation for this. He should tell her that he lost his flash or someone had stolen it to do something like this. She didn't want to experience being betrayed by someone she had come to love and respect. She didn't want that at all.

Jade was about to knock on the door of Mr Alan's office, when she heard a familiar voice coming out from the office.

'What was she doing here?' She asked herself.

She looked at both sides of the hall way to check if anyone was coming. She inclined her ear to the door to eavesdrop when she saw no one coming.

"I hate that I had to do this to Jade. She's a nice girl–"

"But your daughter comes first. Be happy you now have the balance for daughter's surgery, and if I were you I'll be on my way to the hospital. Jade is nobody to you. Why are you all acting like she's some goddess or something. I'm far better than that girl" Stephanie hissed in annoyance. She didn't understand why they revered that good for nothing, when she was quite better than her. Stupid fools!

"But even at that, I shouldn't have lowered my principles to–" The man tried speaking but Stephanie rudely interrupted him.

"Mr Alan your principles won't save your daughter, but money would and now you have it. You should take it and add up to the one you've got and go save her. Jade is not your child and stop talking as if she's some saint, she's just a two faced bitch" Stephanie snapped irritably as she stood up to her feet to leave.

"Why did you do this to Jade? What has she done to you?" Mr Alan couldn't help but ask. Stephanie paused and looked at back at him.

With her eyes narrowed, and flashes of anger and hatred in it, she replied, "Her existence in my space is what she has done wrong" Stephanie replied before turning to leave.

Mr Alan didn't know whaat to say, he lowered his head down and looked at the envelope which Stephanie had just dropped on his desk. He felt a pang in his chest. No matter the reason for doing this he couldn't get the disappointed feeling off his heart. He felt disappointed to stoop low as to framing a girl who had been nothing but nice to him.

He had rejected this offer when Stephanie had come to him at first because he had been hopeful of the company granting his request for a loan.

But Stephanie returned using the opportunity of the board declining his request because he had already been issued one before, and the higher up had helped him in paying for one of his daughter's previous surgeries.

Jade stepped away from the door when she heard the clicking sound of Stephanie's shoes. She didn't want to let her know she had heard them talk about her, so she quickly hid her phone in her pocket and some steps backwards.

Stephanie was surprised to see Jade at the door, from the look of things she had only arrived there, or so she thought.

A smug smile appeared on her face as she scanned Jade from top to bottom. She tsked and shook her head amusedly.

"How the mighty has fallen?" Stephanie said with an impish smile tugging her lips.

"I heard what happened with your presentation, was it fun?" She cocked her brow tauntingly.

"I really didn't take you for the kind to watch such lewd stuff. Ah looks can be very deceptive. Who would think that you do this type of things" She hissed pitiably.

"Who would have thought the mighty and intelligent Jade would be this stupid?" Her smile didn't leave her face as she spoke but Jade kept a straight face as she listened to all the trash coming out of her mouth. Stephanie also stopped talking when she noticed her words were having no reaction on Jade and that made her frown.

"Wait, are you still going to pretend that you're still unfazed about this? Do you think pretending will help you?" Stephanie taunted.

"Do you want me to be fazed about it? From your 'concern' I might think you have a hand in this, or do you?" Jade asked, her look and tone was indifferent. "It would be a shame if something as beautifully planned out as this didn't come from that brain of yours" She hissed.

"But then again i know you can never be smart enough to pull off something like this. You're still–" Jade purposefully slurred her speech.

"So what if I am?" Stephanie asked smugly, a cynical smile grazing her lips as she took a step closer to Jade, placing her hand on Jade's shoulder.

"So what if am, what can you do?" She asked defiantly. Jade was looking down on her wasn't she?

"So I planned it out, now you know. So what? Can you prove it?" She cocked a her brow tauntingly.

Jade scoffed when she noticed Stephanie's hand on her, and she chuckled in her mind at how foolish she was.

"It was stupid of me to think you might have done something smart this time, but it seems you still have fish brain in that empty head of yours." Jade said as she brushed Stephanie's hand from her.

Stephanie was quite startled by Jade's behavior. This wasn't the reaction she had expected from her.

'She must be pretending that she isn't affected by all this' Stephanie reasoned in her mind. She scoffed.

"I know you're squirming inside of you but you're pretending not to be. Tch, what a loser"

Jade shot her a condescending look and hissed with displeasure.

"Stephanie, you should be the one squirming. Because right now I have your destiny in my hand and you should be on your knees begging me, but then I don't need it." She paused and took a step closer to her, so they could stand eye ball to eyeball.

"The next time you want to play dirty, make sure you grow some brains first but then there won't be a next time, because I promise you by the end of the day, you'll have your box in your hands standing outside this very building with a new identity, and that would be, 'jobless'" Jade menanced.