Rejected No More: I Am Way Out Of Your League, Darling!

Chapter 921:

“What do you need?” Daniela didn’t waste time with niceties. She simply walked past him and took her seat.

Bruno hesitated, expecting an invitation to sit, but none came.

Irritation prickled at him, but he couldn’t let it show.

Forcing a chuckle, Bruno lowered himself into the seat. “Yesterday, I let my mouth run and said some things I shouldn’t have. I came to apologize. And I hope you’ll like these gifts.”

Daniela gave them a brief glance before letting out a soft chuckle. “And what makes you think I’d like them?”

Her response nearly made Bruno choke on the air. These gifts were worth a fortune, and she had the nerve to say she didn’t like them?

“I was in a bit of a rush.” Fishing a check from his pocket, he extended it toward her. “Please accept this.”

Daniela glanced at the check, a faint smirk playing on her lips. It was the same two-hundred-million-dollar check from the day before.

“Look, we’re all businesspeople. No need to make things so difficult. Think of this as a goodwill gesture,” he added.

Daniela leaned back slightly, her tone measured. “And what exactly do you want from me?”

Bruno’s eyes gleamed with anticipation. He believed Cedric was the real power behind all this. Daniela? She was just a pretty face. But with Cedric wrapped around her finger, she held the influence.

Of course, what he said was the opposite. “Last night, Mr. Phillips took extreme action against my company, leading to severe losses. Could you have a word with him? Ask him to ease up a little?”

Daniela chuckled, plucking the check off the table. “If my memory serves me right, Cedric mentioned a hundred billion dollars yesterday, didn’t he? And if I recall correctly, you lost around eighty billion last night. Had you acted sooner, you wouldn’t have ended up paying this much.”

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Bruno swallowed his pride, his jaw tightening. “Yes, I was foolish.”noveldrama

Unhurriedly, Daniela placed the check back on the table and slid it toward him. “Cedric told me this morning—he gave you a chance yesterday, and you didn’t take it. Now? A hundred billion won’t cut it. It’s a trillion. So, are you going to come up with it, or pretend this meeting never happened?”

The sheer number nearly made Bruno choke. “A trillion? You can’t be serious! Even if all eight of us pooled our wealth, we wouldn’t have that much!”

Daniela’s voice remained unhurried. “But you haven’t even tried. How can you be so sure?”

Ultimately, Lillian tossed both Bruno and his gifts right out the door. “Scram! Who do you think you are, acting all high and mighty? Please! When I was spending millions like pocket change, you were still scraping by in the slums!” she mocked.

A powerful business mogul, yet here he was—thrown out like a nobody.

Onlookers gawked, some even pulling out their phones to record.

By nightfall, Bruno’s humiliation had become industry gossip. Word spread like wildfire—Bruno Deleon was tossed out of Elite Lux by a secretary.

In a dimly lit private lounge, Bruno fumed at the remaining seven.

“I haven’t been humiliated like this in years! Daniela is insufferable! Absolutely unbearable! What now? Does she run the market? She demands a hundred billion, and we just hand it over? She demands a trillion, and we magically find it? Who does she think she is? It’s all because of Cedric! She acts untouchable now, but back when she was chasing after Alexander, wasn’t she meek and submissive? Hackett! Say something!”

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