Chapter 71: The Conrad Family
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The trainee immediately stood at the side with bowed head, Venita stared at her from head to toe and exhaled heavily.
'This won't do, let me ask you, which family are you from?" She asked and the trainee raised her head to stare at her in surprise.
'What?" She asked and Venita scoffed in annoyance.
'Apart from being dumb, are you deaf too? I asked which family you are from." She asked. 'Let me rephrase it, who is your father and how many companies does he own?"
'Uhmmm, I am from a very average family, my dad is in the civil service and my mom is dead," she replied and Venita nodded.
'I see," She said, still nodding her head. 'Once you are a pauper, there will always be a sign of poverty on you. Tell me, what the hell are you doing here? Can't you just go and focus on what the likes that comes from your type of family focus 0n?"
'What?" The girl asked in disbelief and Hanna started from Venita to the trainee, the woman is such a bitch, she wondered how on earth she had been popular all these years and no one knows of her bad habits.
'They usually clamor for position like doctors, lawyers, engineers and the likes even though majority of them don't make it, now look at you, look at your body, you have that lean shape thanks to poverty and your skin is so callous, did you spent the entirety of your life fighting for things?" Venita asked, pointing to her hand.
Hanna stared at the girl's red eyes and subtly nodded in approval, they could get their plan in motion, she had found the victim, if everything goes as smooth as Melissa planned, then Venita would gain even more publicity.
She wanted to be done and over with Venita, she had not seen Sapphire since she arrived in New York and she missed the gang but most especially, the kids, she had to fight the urge not to yawn at the whispered gossips among the rest of the trainees.
Venita treats them all the same way, even if someone is good, she won't compliment them, she would rather go on a rant on how better she had been when she was their age.
'Leave modeling to those who deserve it," she said and the trainee in front of her already had tears in her eyes but she just stared at the floor like it was the most interesting thing in the room.
'Do those who deserve it happen to be brainless bitches like yourself?" Someone asked from the door and they all turned to see Tina standing there in all her natural glory. She had no make-up on and was wearing very casual clothes but she looked like she was having a photo-shoot session at that moment.
'What? Do you want to die?"
'I heard that you had no brain for grades when you were still in high school, you got the award for the most elegant girl through the entirety of your school days and when you finished high school you went to college of modeling," Tina said and Venita scoffed, glaring at her bitterly.
'Would you shut that mouth of yours or should I seal it shut for you?"
'Now that I think about it, you only bully those who are brilliant than you, you used to bully Sapphire back at school too, Melissa was the one that rescued her from you at that time, Sapphire was the most brilliant student in the school at that time and Melissa is the most well dressed, she got an award,"
'Did you become a history teacher?"
'On your past, I could earn a fortune, it would be worth leaving modeling for as long as I am able to get it to the reporters desk, they would want to know what our favorite Nita was up to when she was in high school," Tina said, a smirk on her lips.
'Fuck you," Venita gritted out, her vein popping in anger.
'Thanks but no, I would pass on that stinky thing, let me ask you a question, are you the devil?"
'What nonsense are you saying again?"
'Melissa and Sapphire used to be close when they were in high school, they would do practically anything for each other, and they followed each other everywhere, Oliver being their third company,"
'So what are you trying to say?"
'Are you the one that put them up against each other?" Tina asked and Venita stared at her with an evil look in her eyes.
'That is none of your business, it is about the Conrad family, so stay the fuck out of it,"
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'Why the hell would you post that old video and turn Alexander to the target you use to boost the post?" Melissa asked, glaring at her image in the glass, she was currently in the restroom.
'I used it because it works for me, Melissa. I posted a video that Sapphire is a stripper and Alexander attacks you, it is a win-win situation for me, Sapphire got a very bad image that she would have no option but to quit SJAY and your Conrad family get hate from the netizen,"
'Heather, are you stupid?"
'I would overlook that and call it a slip of the tongue, but killing multiple birds with a stone is anything but stupid, I would call it a well laid out strategic planning," Heather said in a cheerful voice and Melissa stared at the phone in surprise, she had never saw anyone celebrate her own death.
'Alexander would kill you, this is like opening the Pandora box, I know that Sapphire is a private person and no matter how close she seems to be with Alexander, she wouldn't have told him about her past but this stupid post of yours would force her to, and when that happens, it would involve us all,"
'Not me, it won't have anything to do with me, I posted the video but the man attacked you first, obviously, Sapphire had trusted this man and come clean to him already but I think that she hates you the guys the most, after all, you are her family, not me, I was just her friend for three years,"
'Seriously? You snatched her man and made him let her family punish her,"
'Because both the man and the families are robots who do as they are told to do?" Heather asked sarcastically and Melissa tightened her grip around the faucet. 'Look here Melissa, it is not my fault that you have become dull witted over the time, I have always considered you stupid and proud, why don't deal with this thing and get it over with? You Conrads don't like anyone interfering in your business, the rise and fall in your stock is your fault and don't blame it on me, it is the Conrad family business," Heather said and hung up the call, a very satisfied smile on her face.
'That felt good," she said and took the cup of tea on the table, she stirred it with the spoon and inhaled its scent, she nodded. 'This smells good too," she said and took a sip, a happy smile on her face.
Melissa stared at the phone and blinked rapidly in disbelief, she stared hard at herself in the mirror and could see the effect of stress she had gone through in the past four hours, and she let out a very angry scream and breathed heavily, her lips in between her teeth.
