'Where have you been Shayla?!'
Shayla looks up at Dean in contempt, her face showing how much disdain she truly feels about this man. She sighs heavily before telling him
'You lost the right to know anything about my private life so if that's all president Ridge, kindly leave' the curtness in Shayla's voice amplifies the disdain her face is showing.
Dean walks forward, rounding the desk then grabs Shayla's arm, roughly pulling her out of the seat to face him.
'Do not ever speak to me like that again! Do you hear me Shayla?!' He screams loudly.
His body shaking in pure rage at the disrespect Shayla has just shown him. He heaves a few deep breaths in trying to calm himself down.
Once his composed himself he try's again, using a concerned voice, still holding her arm tightly
'Where were you? Did you not think I would be worried? I've not seen you since you left'
'Don't try to manipulate me! I've seen through your lies and deceit! Go find your tramp then the pair of you can stay the hell away from me' Shayla sneers venomously.
She tries to yank her arm out of Dean's grip, she completely despises this man with a passion, all she wants to do is get well away from him.
A controlling man losing control is a man with no limits! His actions will be unpredictable!
Dean's grip tightens causing Shayla to cry out in pain.
The office door is roughly shoved open by Dean's personal assistant Tonia.
'President Ridge Shayla has..' she screeches frantically before her eyes land on the pair. Dean whips his head to the door at Shayla's name before asking angrily, his eyes piercing daggers
'Has what?'
Tonia has clearly come at a bad time!
'I.i can' she starts but Dean now shouts
'What has she done! If you don't explain in the next five seconds then you're fired!'
Tonia's eyes shoot wide open in shock at this before she sighs heavily and blurts out
'Shayla has initiated the cancellation of her contract'
Dean and Shayla simultaneously both ask 'what!'
Shayla in shock because she's done no such thing and Dean in disbelief. His disbelief quickly turns into anger as he grabs hold of Shayla's other arm and begins to shake her while screaming in her face 'you dare to leave me! You dare to leave my company! I told you before you're not leaving! That's bloody final!'
Tonia stares in horror at the violent interaction before she runs off crying.
Dean throws Shayla's body onto the floor then storms out
Shayla begins to cry, in shock, in despair and in horror at what Dean has just done.
Tonia thankfully runs straight into Linda who's currently making her way to Shayla's office. Upon Linda seeing the emotional Tonia she quickly stops her, pulling her into a comforting hug. Once Tonia has calmed her breathing Linda coaxes for answers. 'What's gotten you in a pickle?'
Tonia can't hold back her tears as she frantically explains what's just happened in Shayla's office.
'I was trying to find president ridge about Shayla initiating a contract cancellation, Susie and Louise told me he had gone to Shayla's office! When I opened the door he.. he had hold of her arm' she cries emotionally.
'That doesn't explain why you're crying Ton, did something else happen?' Linda asks worriedly.
Tonia nods her head before crying out quietly
'He started screaming and shaking Shayla! I ran away! I was so scared Linda!'
Linda pulls Tonia out of the hallway, taking her into a meeting room while quickly pulling out her phone and texting Lewis, once the women sit down together Linda's phone starts ringing. Instead of answering the continuous calls she comforts Tonia, until she's completely calm.
Meanwhile after receiving the text from Linda Lewis tries to call her, without any luck.
Lewis has no choice but to disrupt Leroy's call with figures magazine. He knocks quietly then opens the door without any hesitation while Leroy throws daggers at Lewis for the interruption.
'Sorry, could you hold for a moment' Leroy says before swiftly putting the call on hold and snapping angrily at Lewis
'This better be good Lewis! Are you that incompetent to not be able to do anything without me?'
Lewis listens quietly to Leroy's ranting before he mumbles quietly, scared to witness Leroy's rath
'I'm so sorry to disturb you president Shark but there's been an incident'
Leroy sighs before asking 'Could this...' but Lewis interrupts, talking over him
'This incident regards your wife'
Leroy's eyes pierce into Lewis, expecting him to elaborate on this incident.
'I received a text from Linda, president Ridge has hurt your wife, I've tried to call back numerous times but she won't pick up' Lewis informs frantically, his words flying from his mouth.
Leroy reconnects the call before curtly saying
'I'll open the show but that's all, if there's anything else contact my assistant' then he slams the phone down, throws back his chair and walks out shouting 'come' over his shoulder to Lewis.
Lewis quickly runs to catch up to Leroy, who's already at the elevator.
Both men take the elevator down to the garage, get into the car then Lewis pulls out quickly, driving over to passion empire while Leroy sits in the back brooding in anger.
How dare this dog hurt my wife!
A man should always feel protective of his wife!especially if she's been hurt!
Once Tonia is calm, Linda sends her home quickly before running through the office building to Shayla's office.
As soon as she gets into the hallway she can hear Shayla crying, Linda picks up her pace and barges through Shayla's office door, without knocking.
Her eyes scan the room hastily before they land on Shayla's crumpled body on the floor.
Linda walks around the desk then gets to her knees, noticing a small trickle of blood trickling down Shayla's neck, Linda wraps her arms around Shayla's shaking frame, whispering sweet nothings into her lightly bleeding ear, comforting her, trying to calm her down. Linda could now only hope Lewis had read her text and taken it seriously.
As a woman she had little to no power when it came to men. Especially in the entertainment industry, where women walked the runways and looked pretty while mostly men run the agencies.