Unforeseen Chemistry

Chapter 53: Diamond Corporation Scandal - Part 1

"I came to see Angela," Diana said. "With her achievement in such a short while, I asked her to mentor me. Unfortunately, she is not in her office," she added and Bernard eyed her suspiciously.

Her excuse sounded solid but Bernard felt something was up, yet he couldn't put a finger on what that might be. He walked past her to get what he wanted from Bryce's office for the client meeting scheduled for the afternoon.

At the hospital, Angela finally woke up and found herself in the hospital. The guard was the only person with her.

"What happened?" Angela asked sounding sober.

"You were acting aggressive and passed out," the guard replied, telling her what he knew.

"What happened to my hand?" Angela asked seeing the wounds on her hand when she moved her hand to her head.

"I am sorry ma'am. I locked you in the room because you were trying to get away. You kept hitting the door and that happened," the guard explained.

Angela held her head in pain briefly. She was having a splitting headache. The doctor walked in and she raised her head looking alive.

"Ah, you are awake. You have been out for four hours," the doctor informed Angela and her eyes widened.

"What time is it?" Angela asked.

"It's five minutes to hour 3," the doctor replied and examined Angela. "You look okay now, but we will have to observe you for a couple of hours more," the doctor said.

"No, I have some things I need to do. I have a deadline staring at me," Angela said sitting up on the hospital bed.

"Your health first Ms Anderson," the doctor said.

"Yes, but I have to pay my bills. I need my job for that," Angela said and the doctor frowned.

"Your hospital bill has been taken care of by Mr Moore," the doctor informed her.

"Yes, he is my boss and I am only an employee. I need to work. That is the rule," Angela said with the hope of clearing whatever thought the doctor may have cultivated about her relationship with Bryce upon hearing the doctor say Bryce paid her hospital bill.

"Hmm," the doctor reacted.

"I can leave right?" Angela asked and sat on the bed hiding the headache she was feeling.

"Well, everything seems fine but I need to ask you one quick question," the doctor said briefly looking at the guard.

The guard exited the room realizing the doctor wanted some privacy with Angela.

"How long have you been doing drugs?" the doctor asked and Angela frowned.

"I don't do drugs," Angela replied immediately.

"Well, you don't have to hide anything. We have your lab results which revealed you have large volumes of cocaine in your blood," the doctor informed Angela.

"I don't know what you are talking about but I have never done drugs in my life. I want to leave, please. I don't want to stay here any longer," Angela said.

"I see," the doctor said. "Your results are fine. I will discharge you on condition that you visit for a check-up. Every two days," the doctor said.

"Fine," Angela agreed.

In a few minutes, Angela was out of the hospital, she asked the guard to drop her at Don Entertainment industry.

"Ma'am, I don't think sir is going to like that. Let me take you home first or let him know you are out of the hospital," the guard advised.

"Martin, I am doing this for your boss. Tomorrow is the premiere of the movie. I worked on this and most of the things are with me. I need to let them know and I also need to ensure everything is ready for tomorrow," Angela said. "This premiere is bigger than the previous one. We can't afford to make any mistakes. If I worked hard for the previous one, I need to double my work for this one," she added and the guard just nodded.

The guard sent a text to Bryce and drove Angela to Don Entertainment. Angela went to see Don and together they met with the other team members.

Bryce was at home. He was lost in the work he was doing and had not seen the message from his guard, Martin. He heard his phone ring and that was when he broke his concentration from his work. He found the phone on the bedside table and answered it.

"Hello Bernard," he said as soon as he brought the phone to his ears.

He finished talking with Bernard and saw the message from Martin. He looked at the time and realized it was too late to call Angela back.

At Don Entertainment, Angela finished with her meeting and left for home since it was already 5 p.m. It was 6:30 p.m. when Angela arrived at the estate and proceeded to Bryce's apartment. She went upstairs to her room. She pushed the door open and realized the light in the bedroom was off. She entered and ran her fingers on the wall. She found the switch and turned the light on. She jolted out of her skin seeing Bryce sitting on the chair facing the door.

"Good evening," Angela greeted, composing herself.

"What is good about the evening?" came Bryce's deep voice but Angela went silent still glued to her spot, holding her bag.

"Is work more important than your health?" Bryce asked.

"No, I...I ..... just wanted to ..erm.. make sure everything was in place..." Angela stammered but Bryce interrupted her before she could complete her statement and stood up from the chair.

"You what," Bryce said. "From the hospital, you left for Don Entertainment for what?" he questioned. "Well, that is your life if you don't care about it, I won't care about it for you. I am only interested in one thing," he said.

Bryce advanced towards Angela. His stare was distant like the first time they met. Angela tried to move back but realized quickly her back was already against the wall. Bryce trapped her between his arms by putting his hand up on the wall. With his tall figure and large body frame, Angela looked very short in front of him even though she was 1.6M tall.

He towered over her making her look up to see his face. Angela lowered her head but Bryce lifted her head to look at his face. He breath blowing on her face and his lips were inches away from hers.

"Be honest with me, are you using drugs?" Bryce asked and Angela was surprised by the question.

Her fears turned into anger and she frowned deeply.

"How can you think that?" Angela replied. "I have never done much in my life," she replied.

"The test run on you reveals that you have large volumes of cocaine in your body," Bryce informed her and Angela's eyes turned tearer surprised he believed that.

The doctor had mentioned that to her at the hospital but her mind was focused on what she needed to do and hence forgot about it.

"And you believe that?" Angela questioned. "I have never done drugs in my life. I don't know where those results came from or who is trying to frame me up, but I don't do drugs," she added.

"Then explain to me, what this morning was all about," Bryce questioned and Angela tried to recall some of the things that transpired in the morning.

She realized she could not understand half of the things that transpired in the morning or does she remembered some of them.

"I don't know," Angela replied lowering her head.

Bryce was not sure if he believed her or not but he never doubted the possibility of someone framing her up but who would do that was the only question. Susan and Eva are not in the company for now. So who else hated her and would do that to her? He was beginning to think if he allowed his feelings to precede his judgement or if Angela was taking advantage of the attention he was giving her to do what she pleased. He decided to set his rules and monitor her.

"You can't do drugs in my house. If you are going to live here and continue to be my wife, you will have to put a stop to the habit," Bryce said. "And one more thing, seeing what happened today, take the day off tomorrow and leave tomorrow's premiere for Britney to handle," he added and Angela's eyes widened.

Since she joined the company, the only day she was able to do something impressive was her second day. The subsequent days were filled with failure and breaking of rules. None of which was her fault. She could tell, how distant Bryce was from her but that gradually changed, when the real culprit was found. This was the only project that had put her in the spotlight and Bryce was going to take that away from her.

"Sir, but ......" Angela began but was interrupted by Bryce.

"No but, you will stay home tomorrow and allow Britney to handle it," he said and exited the room.

Angela walked towards the bed feeling broken. She had put everything of hers into the project and now Bryce wants to give the biggest premiere to someone else.