Fate

The Means to an End

"Lisa to the CEO! Lisa to the CEO" Lisa hears over the intercom.

biting her lip and tucking some papers into the corner of her desk she stands up.  She smoothes out her black pencil skirt and heads to the door of her office. As she is walking down the corridor of the huge New York building she cant help but wonder why Steven didn't come get her himself.  He always does after all, he is her fiance as well as her boss. Her stomach begins to turn and she scrunches her nose as a feeling of dread washes over her. Maybe he has a surprise for her? Her birthday isn't until next week though. She plays all the possibilities in her mind as she reaches Steven's office door. Evening out her breath and pushing all negative thoughts  to the side, she turns the handle and enters her fiance's office with a smile.

"Hey baby." She says walking up to him and snaking her hands around his neck. She goes to kiss him, but he turns his head away from her.

looking into his brown eyes, she sees a hardness behind them, so she drops her hands to her side as she studies his face looking for any clues of why he called her there.

"Baby-"

"You're fired and i have arranged for my butler to remove all of your items from my house. He is bringing it all to your father's mansion and there is a car out front ready to bring you there as well." Steven cuts her off and stares into her dark brown eyes during his whole spiel.

"What?" Shakily comes out of her mouth as tears begin to fall down her cheek. "Why?" She manages.

"I can't do this anymore with you Lisa! You are always with your damn father anyway, You don't want to start a family, you are always distracted, you don't love me, you are nothing but a gold digger."

She runs her hand through her curled dark hair and scoffs as more tears emerge. "Steven, I love you more than I love myself. I have to be with my father three days out of the week because i have to take him to treatment for his cancer. I can't start a family right now due to the fact that I am under so much stress and i would probably miscarry anyway. Please don't do this to me Steven. They've given daddy 4 months to live and I told you that I do want kids after the heartbreak of loosing my father levels out a bit. I've give you everything I can... everything i have Steve."

"Sorry but lazy side booty at one in the morning when you get back from the hospital isn't enough for me, even if it's all you have." Steven remarks with a cold hard face and putting air quotes around 'all you have'

Lisa feels like she is going to pass out so she steadies herself on his desk with her hand "Did you ever love me?"

"GET OUT!" he slams his hands on his desk and  then takes the 14 carrot ring off her left ring finger and shoves past her opening up the door to his office.

With one swoop of his arm he motions for her to leave. She clutches her chest and begins to walk out as a blonde woman comes in biting her lip.

"Am I interrupting something?" She asks.

"Oh, I see what this is about now." Lisa says as the blonde woman moves closer to Steven and brushes her hand against his.

"Don't be the jealous bitch." Steven says ushering her out.

"You know what since you are firing me anyway, Fuck you Steven." the words spilling out of her mouth in a solemn and sad voice.

She walks out of the huge double glass doors to the building and sees Braxton, Steven's driver staring back at her with a sad face. He opens the passenger door for her and she slides in. She begins to sob and Braxton gets in the driver's side. He places a comforting hand on her knee, and she grabs it.

"Did you know?" She asks gripping his hand for either support or strength, which one, she wasn't sure.

"About the affair? Not until this morning when he told me to come pick you up for 10." .