POACHING HER

POACHING HER
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

DIANA

"Although she works for you, don't tell me that you are going to keep her from talking to anyone, forever?" Diego's lazy voice made Chris stop in his tracks, and he turned back to look at Diego, anger in his eyes.

I wondered if Diego was the person Chris was mad at. His temper seemed to have started flaring when I left him alone with Dylan.

"She works for me, and not you, Diego. Right now, we are rivals trying to seal a deal. Do you really expect that I'd let my assistant speak to you? Are you trying to poach her so you can find out about my company secrets?" Chris taunted Diego.

Diego just smirked hazily, "I really don't care about your company secrets, but as for poaching Diana ...it really isn't a bad idea. Diana, would you like to work for me? You definitely wouldn't be just an assistant, I'd arrange an important position for you, what do you think?" Diego winked at me as he said this, and I had a feeling that he was just doing this to annoy Chris.

It worked, because smoke was almost coming off the top of Chris' head.

"She doesn't want to work for you," he snapped at Diego.

"Why don't you let her speak for herself? I am sure that Diana can make the decision for herself. Instead of being stuck with a grumpy boss like yourself, she can make a better decision and work for me. Oh, and, we already have history together, so it should be better for her to work for someone she used to be friends with?" Diego continued to push it.

My mouth was wide open as my eyes darted between both men. I wanted to say something to stop this, but I really had no idea what I was supposed to say.

"I...."

"Diana, I thought you would contact me once I gave you my card, however, I waited and waited and still didn't hear from you. Don't tell me that you are not allowed to have friends outside of work?" Diego asked me.

I could feel Chris' sharp gaze on me, and it made my heart race fast

Why did I feel like I was caught doing something bad? I didn't even do anything, damn it! What was the meaning of this?

"I....I lost it...." I managed to say.

I had indeed lost the card, that day, I was sure I put in in my bag, however, no matter how I searched for it the next morning, I just couldn't find it.

It wasn't possible that someone took it out of my bag, and so I could only assume that I had lost it somehow during the night.

"How about I give it to you again and you can consider come working for me..."

He was still talking when Chris grabbed me once again and shoved me into the car.

He didn't even give me a chance to respond!

As Chris sped off, I could see Diego standing by the side, a smile on his face.

Although Diego was smiling, his eyes looked empty, besides some traces of sadness in them.

I was still looking at the direction Diego was standing in even though Chris had driven away a long time ago and I could no longer see him.

"Ha, you really are considering his offer? Why don't you get down and go to him? I am sure that he'd accept you with open arms," Chris mocked me.

Swallowing a gulp, I forced myself to look ahead. I rubbed the hand that Chris had been dragging the whole time.

It really did hurt me.

"I would appreciate it if you didn't drag me like that next time. I work for you, I am not your property," I reminded him.

"I almost thought that you forgot that you do work for me," he sneered..

"What does that mean?" Turning my head sharply, I glared at his face.

I had tried my best to accept all that Chris threw at me ever since I started working for him.

But perhaps because I was already in a bad mood today, I wasn't willing to accept his mistreatment.

"What was the meaning of what happened earlier, Diana?" He asked me.

Knowing that Chris was asking about my reaction to Dylan, I looked straight ahead once Adrian.

I was not willing to talk about it, especially not with him.

"I don't want to talk about it" I said plainly, trying to keep the emotion out of my face.

"Really?" I didn't dare to look at Chris' face, but I could tell how angry he was from how he sounded.

"I am sure that if Diego asked you, you would tell him everything that he wanted to know, right? You wouldn't hold back anything from him!"