The Conspiracy of Baby-Switching novel Chapter 128

Gabriel - Aged 19.

I open the email and I hear the voices coming, I glance up just in time to see. "And you know what that means?" My father playfully winks as they walk past my desk and she laughs on cue.

"Can I see you in my office for a moment?" he asks her.

"Of course, sir." She gives him a sexy smile and they disappear into his office and close the door behind them.

It's just another day in the office.

I work at Ferrara Media now. It's always been my dream to work here alongside my father. To learn the ropes and to make my family proud.

Now.... Not so much.

Feeling the love and respect you had for your father slowly gurgle down the drain is as depressing as it gets, and just when you think that the knife can't cut any deeper, in it goes.

I stare at my computer and I hear her giggle, my stomach twists with jealousy.

My father is fucking his PA.

The worst part about it is that he doesn't try and hide it from me. He doesn't care if I know or not. We've never had the conversation but there isn't a doubt in my mind about what's going on.

I die a little every time I watch my mother beg for his love. I hear her cry late at night when he doesn't come home and I listen to him lie to her every day.

His trips to Italy are becoming more and more frequent, and longer each time. It's ramping up, I can feel it coming to a climax and he doesn't care anymore.

He wants out.

He's going to leave us...some days I wish that he would just fucking go and be done with it, put us all out of this misery.

To watch your family slowly disintegrate before your eyes is painful.

But to watch your mother suffer through it is a fate worse than death.

I hear things go flying off his desk through the wall and I know exactly what they're doing in there. I get a vision of them and nausea runs through me.

What kind of man sleeps with his personal assistant?

What kind of man puts a random woman before his own family?

I swear on my life, I'll never be like him...not ever.

I fucking hate him.

Gabriel - Aged 26.

Knock, knock.

"Yes," I call.

My office door opens and Alessio puts his head around the corner.

"Remember to be nice."

I slap my folder onto my desk. "Get the fuck out."

"I mean it." He walks in. "The HR team have handpicked this one."

"Please." I roll my eyes. "Like the last five assistants they've handpicked." I open my emails, bored with this conversation. "Useless the lot of them."

"Just be nice. We don't want anyone else resigning on the first day."

I fake a smile and then drop my face immediately. "Why don't you do me a favor and resign?"

"Gabriel." He widens his eyes. "Be nice." "Yes, yes." I sigh.

"I'll send her in."

"Her?" I frown. "I don't want a her."

"She's the most qualified for the job."

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