"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is a too great burden to bear."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Music played: let me live by Anne- Marie feat Rudimental, Major Lazer, and Mr. Eazi.
******************************Giovanni POV
As soon as my assistant left my office, I felt a surge of emotions built up inside of me. An emotion I haven't felt in a long time, Care. I have never given a damn about other people's feelings but I felt like I was hurting this woman's feelings.
I knew I spoke angrily to her because Lorenzo came to my house last night. I felt the world was against me and I was the only unhappy person. I hated when people around me smile because it makes me feel like I was going to be miserable for life.
"Let's go off me Franklin, " her words resounded in my head as I try to focus on the board meeting. Why does she keep calling me Franklin? The only person who called me by that name was my late grandmother and the woman in my dream.
"Wait for a second, the woman in my dreams," I ran my head through my hair as I thought about the woman in my dream.
A knock sounded on my door and it bought me out of my thoughts. I straightened my suit and walked out of the door.
"Sir, the meeting." The woman I was thinking about reminded me of the meeting I was supposed to have started.
I ignored her and walked to the conference room that was on the 36th floor. We both entered and her closeness towards me was affecting my thoughts and I found myself struggling to breathe. Why was her presence affecting me so much?
"Sir, are you alright?" She asked but like always I ignored her and walked out of the elevator as soon as the doors opened.
When I entered the board room, the directors all stood up and when I took my seat, they all sat down.
"Now, welcome to this meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to inform you all about the Chinese investors that came yesterday and like you all have known, we both collaborate to produce a new brand or new gadgets" I informed all of them and they all nodded.
"Good. So the person in charge of the project is our COO Cassandra Morgan," I announced and Cassandra stood up as the directors all clapped their hands for her.
"I object to this," my personal broke through the clapping as she stood up from her seat.
"What are you doing?" I whispered to her.
She ignored me and faced the directors. "I do not agree with this because the Chinese investors put me in charge of this project."
"Oh really?" Cassandra asked. "This project had always been mine for the past years. I've always been the one in charge and you can't change that fact even if you were picked by the Chinese investors." Cassandra informed her.
The board directors whispered amongst themselves as they watched the exchanges between the two women. I looked at both women, Cassandra was sitting on my left-hand side while the melody was on my right-hand side.
"I'm the one chosen by the Chinese investors because I came up with an idea and you can not deprive me of that," melody argued. "If you all please give me the chance to prove myself that I'm capable of the project," melody spoke with confidence and it was exactly what I needed to hear.
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