STEEL CITY

Chapter 4

Her face fell and further paled as the contact saved as "MAGIC" was an already an existing contact on her phone and the number belonged to her sister Imogen.

She immediately regained her composure and sat down properly as she waited for Ethan as she knew he could return anytime soon. Her thoughts drifted to the phone call of yesterday as she tried to find a loophole to prove Imogen wasn't the woman she heard with him.

Maybe something happened at the company and Imogen called and on his way back he took a detour, she whispered to herself. But even she didn't buy her own excuse.

"Even if that was true why did he save her name as "MAGIC"," her subconscious whispered to her.

"No, I won't accept it until I see them together with my own eyes," Daphne whispered trying to console herself. For now, she had to figure out an excuse because she didn't want to discuss her shares with her cheating boyfriend.

A few seconds later Ethan walked in and sat in front on her with impatience written all over his face because he has been here for over thirty minutes and hasn't gained anything tangible from their meeting. But before Daphne could open her mouth Ethan's phone rang out and the name "MAGIC" flashed on the screen.

For someone who's cheating he sure isn't discreet about it, Daphne sneered in her heart and then looked away from the phone screen like she wasn't just staring at it.

Ethan immediately shot out of his chair like he was electrocuted.

"There's an emergency at the company," he said, immediately grabbing his things and walking out.

"You won't even offer to pay the bills?" Daphne's voice resounded behind him.

He heard her clearly as there was a slight hesitation but he continued to walk away. Daphne stared at his retreating figure and thought about all the sacrifices she made for him thinking she was securing their future together but it turned out she was securing the her sister's future with her fiance.

He walked out of a meeting that could earn him shares worth billions because of a single phone call from his lover but couldn't stay with her during a life threatening surgery. He chose to go for a two weeks long conference that didn't require his presence.

Was she that unbearable that he couldn't spend time around her?

She laughed bitterly at her own predicament, but she wouldn't break down now. She wouldn't let her sister have her way, but for now she didn't want to think about it.

So she drove to the closest bar and drank the night away as she cried bitterly at the betrayal. Glass after glass, shot after shot the tears stopped falling eventually because she started feeling the numbness she craved for.

A man then walked up to her, he was equally drunk but not as drunk as she was. He sat beside her and decided to start a conversation with her.

Daphne was to engrossed with the bottles in front of her and was yet to realize someone was sitting beside her as she stared blankly into the space in front of her wondering how she felt pain in her numbness. The man kept on talking beside her but soon realized that she wasn't paying attention.

Suddenly she felt something wet latch onto her neck, she shrieked in shock and pulled back immediately. She slapped the man hard across his face and stood up immediately but soon stumbled because she was drunk.

She struggled to get up and when she did, she realized all eyes were on her in the bar, some people recognized her as one of the rising actresses of Steel City because before joining Ethan's agency Daphne had starred in many successful dramas and was quite popular.

Some even took out their phones to start recording but no one tried to help the staggering woman who looked like she could pass out any minute. She ignored them and wobbled out of the bar and on her way out she hit a strong block wall and fell back but was caught before reaching the floor.

She stared at the man before her, it was Quinn Cy the most influential man in Steel City, worth hundreds of billions. Even people who lived under rocks and in sewers would recognize him.

She stared at him completely blown away by his godlike appearance, she had seen him so many times on magazine covers and banquets but never up close.Even when she visited Mira she never saw him and when she met him earlier it wasn't this close. She snapped out of her reverie and stepped back forcefully which made her fall back and Quinn once again pulled her back to safety but with too much force as her lips landed on his.

She stared at him with her eyes widened as they both froze in shock. She then stepped back carefully to avoid further accidents and bowed her head deeply to express her gratitude and apologize for the accident, she was drunk but not completely unaware of her actions.

"I am so sorry," she said flustered as she ran away immediately out of embarrassment, she tripped a few times and stumbled into her car. She turned to the direction where she left Quinn and screamed when she saw him right in front of her by her window and again she was taken aback by how beautiful he was.

"You're drunk," he said with his deep voice. She nodded her head slightly confused as to why he was stating the obvious.

"Mira would nag me to death if she found out I let you drive drunk. Come with me," Quinn said. She wanted to refuse but she soon started feeling dizzy, she tried to keep steady as her head started to sway back and forth but she eventually blacked out. Quinn stared at the woman in front of him for a long time before carrying her out of her car and into his driving away.

From the shadows, a man holding a camera emerged with a wide smile on his face because he knew that these pictures were going to get him a lot of money he just needed to sell it to the right people but that wouldn't be hard because anything related to the name Cy especially Quinn would attract a lot of attention.