Chapter 91

• MARIA
• I paced the room, seething and fuming, as if a volcano was about to erupt at any moment. I was fuming as I stood there, having just lost a shot at a million-dollar contract – something that would have put me on the map – over my lust for seducing Ariel’s husband, Alan just to spite Ariel. I had thought that if I could just get him back, the rest of the pieces would fall into place. But now, I felt how irrational it was of me to have done that.
• I had compromised my professional and ethical conduct aiming at regaining him and all this amounted to nothing. And at the times when I was trying to use him to give me the kind of power and fame that I wanted for myself and needed so badly. But all of that had been in vain. The contract was gone and then there was nothing I could do but regret myself for it. I had realized that I was at my lowest and was left to contemplate on the injustice I had done to myself in the quest for him