Chapter 116
Zendaya’s POV
I got tired of getting harassed by Delia’s father so I did what I had told myself that I wouldn’t do until the time was right.
I exposed everything I knew about him to the press.
The news I got of him was so much I had no idea if he would bounce back from it but I didn’t care. He had crossed the line when he had insulted my family and I would do worse than what he had done to me.
That was the reason I had asked for his information to be leaked to me so I could go through them and keep them until the time was right.
I had it leaked to the press after getting back home and the press picked up the news immediately.
That night, they had it printed and the media carried it throughout the social media platforms.
How he owed billions in taxes and how he could go to jail for tax evasion.
The news about his company went far and wide and I laid in bed while watching people comment all they knew about the company under the comment section.
I knew the man would try to sell many of his lands and properties to pay the taxes and the officials off now the news was out.
The sharks would come for their money and he was too broke to pay them off so he would get rid of his properties, now that was where I would come in.
Now I would use all my money and power as a company owner to get someone from my company to pose as a buyer and buy the properties in my name.
He would not know he was selling to me.
I was prepared to make myself successful and bring down the man and his family.
Next time when he would think of coming at me, he would think twice before doing it. I would not pity him any longer.
If I had more facts about him, I would leak it.
Now this was someone who was supposed to have their information leaked and not Asher. I suddenly felt horrible about my past behavior.
I should not have researched it in the first place. At least Travis would not have used it against him which in turn came back to bite me in the back.
I missed Asher. Even now he wouldn’t talk to me and I understood why he was mad at me. I wished he would at least say something to me.
Suddenly a rapid knock on my door had me shaking where I laid. Whoever that was knocked like an authoritarian.
I took in deep breaths and headed for the door.
Opening it, I found Asher there with his phone in his hand.
He showed me the headline as I rolled my eyes and let him into the room.
“Stop this madness Zendaya,” he said. “You’re in too much trouble already, I don’t think you want to add more to your name.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“Lying to me again isn’t going to help you. What are you planning?”
“I’m only going against those who hurt me.”
“The same way you went against me?”
He asked and I froze immediately.
“Okay, now that’s not fair, Asher,” I sighed. “You can’t keep holding that against me. I already told you what happened but you wouldn’t listen to me.”
“I don’t want to hear it,” he raised a hand to shut me up. “All I’m asking right now is what your plan is.”
“That man insulted me and my children. This is me having my revenge.”
“And this is the way to go about it? Couldn’t you have told me what happened?”
“Are you crazy?! I am defending my children.”
It was beginning to look like he didn’t care about them anymore. Was it because of what I did?
I decided to tell him everything that transpired between me and the old man and this had Asher mad.
“So there. That’s all I have to say about everything that happened.”
“And you couldn’t tell me?” he was mad at me for not saying anything.
“So you’d defend him. I know he’s your father-in-law but what’s the use of me telling you when you’d be mad at me already?”
“I’m not mad at you, I’m mad at him,” he grunted. “I don’t care if you shoot him, he deserves it. He’s a dick for what he did to you.”
I could not believe my ears. Did he just accept that I was in the right for going against the man?
That was news to me. I could not believe my ears.
“Just make sure this doesn’t come back to bite me in the butt,” he said with a scowl as he turned around to leave.
Suddenly I felt bad for all I had done to him in the past. I had ruined his life. It was all me. I was a terrible person and thanks to Travis my secrets were out in the open.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g
I would give anything to go back to the past and change everything to be normal. I had made a mistake but I would not do the same thing anymore.
It hurt to see how I could have prevented this whole thing from being a disaster but it had not gone like that.
Instead I was paying for the wrongs I had done.
This man was someone who had hurt me so much in the past but he had changed. I had hurt him so much that he had changed and not seen me as an enemy anymore.
I wanted to apologize for what I had done in the past and I wanted him to see that I would do anything to keep him.
As he turned to go, the urge to talk to him grew until it burst out since I couldn’t hold it back any longer.
“Wait!” I called to him.