"You're not some uneducated thug. Your son bullied my daughter at school. Now you're standing here watching these people attack me, verbally and physically, and doing nothing to stop it. You really think you can afford the consequences of this?"
Maria tilted her chin higher, radiating arrogance.
"I need someone's permission to put a homewrecker in her place? I'm doing God's work. You, your daughter, your whole family could walk through that door right now, and I'd make every last one of you kneel and beg. And you'd take it."
The parents around her chimed in immediately.
"You wreck someone's family, and getting hit is the least of what you deserve."
"Maria is the real CEO's wife. You think climbing into someone's bed means you've made it?"
Unbelievable. Every kind of fool crawled out of the woodwork today.
Walter had once tried to take over the parent company's operations. One look from my father sent him scurrying back with his tail between his legs.
It was me who saw a sliver of ambition in him and handed him a thousand-person subsidiary to cut his teeth on.
And somehow that had turned him into a publicly traded company's CEO in these people's eyes?