Burn Those Who Burned Me novel Chapter 26

Chapter 26

Now, Thomas was looking at Danielle with complete disgust, no one noticed his expression except Darius. Pulling her from around his neck, Thomas shoved Danielle back. Startled, she walked slowly towards

Thomas.

“Tommy, why’d you push me away?”

Danielle had tears in her eyes as her voice cracked. The same tears she’d had whenever she would accuse Rabena of being mean or bullying her. The same tears and cracked voiced that worked so many times on him, yet at this moment, he felt nothing but contempt. In a menacing tone, he Thoams began to speak.

“Don’t you have anything to say to me?”

Thomas‘ eyes were dark, all that kept replaying in his mind was how Danielle lied to him about the proposal. Danielle’s eyes began to bulk, she had no idea what he was referring too. Her voice began to rise as she panicked catching everyone’s attention.

“Tommy! What are you talking about? Why are you looking at me like that?”

Both Amber and Davis stood up, Daniel also began to walk in their direction. Darius however continued to lean in the corner and watch not saying one word. Daniel walked over to Thomas demanding to know what was going on.

“Thomas! What’s the meaning of this? Why are you being mean to Dani? After all she’s done for you, how could you treat her like this?”

Thomas looked over at Daniel and scoffed.

“Why don’t you ask your sister?”

Suddenly, the room went quiet, all eyes on Danielle. She began to sob louder.

“T–Tommy, I don’t know what you mean. What did I do?”

Amber immediately jumped to her defense.

“Thomas! What the hell do you think you’re doing! How could you talk to my daughter like this! If it wasn’t for her you-”

Thomas cut Amber off yelling, he’d heard enough.

“If it wasn’t for her I would not have blown the biggest deal my firm has ever had!”

Everyone stared at Thomas in shock. What did he mean by this? What had Danielle done? Finally, Davis spoke up.

“Thoams, explain yourself! This is unbecoming. Against my better judgement I allowed you to enter into a

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relationship with my daughter DESPITE what happened with Rabena, and this is how you repay that kindness!”

In that instant, everything became clear to Thomas. He realized just how much this family as well as himself saw Rabena. She was ALWAYS going to be an outsider. Davis went out his way to refer to Danielle as his daughter while referring to Rabena by name. That was not unintentional, the message was clear.

Thoams let out a sarcastic laugh, how long had he been a fool? Perhaps his grandmother was right after all.

“Your ‘daughter‘ may have ruined my entire career with her lies.”

Danielle began to panic, what lies was he referring too?

“Tommy I don’t know wha-”

“Stop lying! Danielle, I know! I know you weren’t the one that created that proposal and setup the meeting between me and Chairman Michaels!”

Danielle’s face began to pale, she hadn’t expected for Thomas to learn the truth. When she originally heard about the meeting, they referred to the person as Ms. Crest, she naturally assumed they never knew Rabena’s first name. Panicking, she decided to feign ignorance.

“T–Tommy why would you say that? You know I set that up for you. You even said-”

Exhausted, Thomas cut Danielle off again.

“Dani, just stop. Stop with the lies. Did you really not think they would tell me who set everything up?”

Getting angry with Thomas bullying his sister, Daniel intervened before Danielle could answer.

“That’s enough Thomas! If Dani didn’t setup your meeting and proposal then who did!”

Thomas eyes cut over and glared at Daniel. Was that answer not obvious? With a sarcastic chuckle, he answered,

“Your sister…Rabena”

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