The Devil's Possession ✔ (Completed)

Chapter 10 - The Devil gives a choice

I searched around the table desperately, my mind becoming numb and it was becoming hard to breathe.

I was sure I put it inside of my bag but why couldn't I find it? It was a crucial presentation that can only be presented by a screen and if I couldn't find it...

That meant, the deal would be off and we were doomed, especially me. I looked around and saw Mr Denver who was discussing with another colleague a couple of tables away from me. Should I ask him if he had copied it by chance?

Then I recalled, he did the first half of the presentation while I did the last half which meant he had only half of the project, describing it on his computer. I didn't take my laptop today because I had copied it in the pen drive and there was no need for it.

I face palmed as tears rumbled at the corners of my eyes. How could I be so overconfident! I should have copied it to another folder in the office desktop with a strong password or I could have brought my laptop, just in case.

I should have thought of the bad side of everything. I always think of both sides, yet being good at my work made me greedy. I forgot that if everything went the wrong way, what could I do?

A sniff escaped but I didn't want anyone to see me pathetic so I got up while my head hung lower and I went toward the washroom.

But before I could reach, I collided with Emily. "Watch your steps, you damn, bitch."

I wanted to avoid her and wanted to go straight toward the bathroom. However, she might have felt something was off with me as she said, "Walking while your head is low... I wonder what happened..."

She knew I would lose my composure if something happened whether it was a fight with my boyfriend or something that I did wrong. After all, we were best friends. "Hmm... Have you forgotten your pen drive, perhaps?"

I went still as I looked up at her with a mortified look. How the hell did she know?

A wicked grin crawled on her face as she brought out a small silver thing from her skirt pocket. I gasped as the metal piece glinted in her hand. It was the same pen drive I had the documents in.

"Why do you have it?" I asked as horror replaced my shock state and her face became scornful.

"I knew that Devis bastard had given you the project and you all have been preparing for it for over half a year." She added, "I could have been the one who was selected for this project yet you had to ruin it for me."

Her anger portrayed through her eyes and it wasn't only anger but it was mixed with hatred. The hatred that I had never noticed before. I thought, had she always hated me that much?

"You were always so infested in your work that he chose you over everyone. Do you think anyone in this office likes you?"

"What do you mean?"

She scoffed, "I hate that look on your face when you act like you don't know a thing."

I still could not get it as I stayed there with a blank mind.

"Look around you..." She added, "A mere country side girl who had come just over six months ago and yet managed to get the most important project which would light her career."

I furrowed my brows as she continued, "Everyone apart from you were senior employees yet you, the newcomer, had secured the opportunity and that wasn't enough." She clenched her teeth as she spilt venom at me, "You even got the promotion that we all were seething for a year. A secretary."

I had never known of this. Any of this. Was it always like this? I looked around and indeed more than my colleagues had a distasteful look at me yet when they noticed I was watching them, they put on the mask of genuineness and smiled at me as if they were encouraging me. Some even diverted their gazes the moment our eyes met. The only two people who weren't looking at me with that look were Mr Denver and Tiara, the girl who joined a month before me. She was a clumsy girl with curly hair and light bronze skin and her eyes were glued to the screen.