(Few Days Later)
The longer Daniella stared down at the phone number displayed on the screen, the more she was urged to smash the phone onto the ground.
"What do these damned people want from Desmond?" Daniella said through her teeth before she cut the call for the fifth time. But each time she ended the call, the more intense the next call came in, and it was only fueling her rage. Bella had been calling Desmond on the phone, but he wasn't around to pick up. Daniella, who was in the room., doesn't want to pick up the call.
She restrained herself from slamming the phone back on the table when the next call came in. She couldn't take it any longer and picked up the call when the phone number kept calling in.
"And what the hell do you want now?" Daniella couldn't help the hate that was seeping in through her voice while she held the phone tightly to her right ear.
"Desmond... Brother... please, you have to help us!" Bella's voice resounded from the other end of the phone, mistaking Daniella for her elder brother Desmond.
"You pest, can't you give your brother just a little rest? Must you call him at every chance you have?!" Daniella retorted, screaming as if she was about to tear the phone apart.
"Daniella?" Bella asked in a questioning tone.
"Don't you dare call his phone again, or else I'm going to do something drastic to you!" Daniella threatened and was about to end the call when Bella's voice came again.
"Please, Daniella, I...I need to speak to my elder brother. Can you just give him the phone, I beg you. My mother is on the verge of dying!" The pain was evident in Bella's while she poured out her heart. But Daniella just rolled her eyes in disgust and ended the call.
"Such nasty people. They're getting on my nerves, and I cannot keep up with that!" Daniella let out, tucking the strand of hair that fell on her face behind her ears.
"Those fools think that they have Desmond at their beck and call. I'm going to show those idiots that I am the only one who has Desmond's heart!" Daniella said with so much hate.
"And that miserable woman can die for all I care. She has executed her job well, and now I have no use for her." Daniella said with pride and dropped the phone back where it had once been before she got interrupted by the rude call.
Daniella resorted to putting her hair up in a ponytail when it kept falling over her face, and she couldn't take it anymore. When she was sure that her hair was in place, she got back into bed to continue on with her beauty sleep.
When it seemed sleep was almost in her reach, she heard Desmond's phone ring again, and that was what broke the camel's back.
Daniella flung the covers away from her body angrily and grabbed the phone from the table. She didn't even bother looking at the screen before she knew who the caller was.
"What the hell do you want now, Bella?!" She fired into the phone.
"Please, Daniella, can you just hand over the phone to my brother? I need to speak with him; I beg you." Bella's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Have you suddenly gone deaf or something, or do you not understand simple English? What other languages do you understand so I can communicate it to you?" Daniella's tone was sarcastic.
"What are you talking about? What are you even doing with Desmond's phone to start with, and why are you taking his calls?" Belle asked angrily.
"How dare you question me, and how is it your business what I do with my fiancé's phone?!"
"I can't believe how ungrateful you are. Have you suddenly forgotten how I and my mother set you up with Desmond...?
"And you both did a perfect job!" Daniella replied sarcastically.
"I'm not going to tolerate this attitude from you, Daniella. I need to speak to my brother, and I need to do it right now, so hand over his phone back to him!" Bella ordered but that only fuelled the rising anger inside Daniella.
"And who the hell do you think you are to tell me what or what not to do, huh?" She retorted.
"Daniella, I'm not going to go through this with you. My mother is dying, and I need to speak with Desmond, so hand him the phone now!" Bella said again.
"Isn't she old enough to die? She has already lived her life to the fullest, so why can't you just allow her to go..."
"How can you say such a thing, Daniella, a woman who helped you worm your way into her son's heart, and now you have the guts to turn your back and say such hurtful things about her?"
"It's not the hurtful...it's the truth. Now if you don't mind, I have more important things to attend to...."
"So the health condition of my mother is not important to you?" Bella cut her off rudely.
"Don't ever call this line again, and I mean every word of what I say, except you do not want Desmond to cut you both off completely."
"You wouldn't dare to make him do that!" Bella's voice boomed from the other end of the phone.
"Well then, watch me!" Bella threatened before she ended the call abruptly.
In that same vein, she went to Desmond's call log and blocked Bella's number before she deleted it from his phone. She also did the same thing to his mother's number before she deleted it.
"Bunch of idiots. I'm going to show the both of you not to mess with me!"
"I never pleaded with you both to help me get to Desmond in the first place; I could have done that on my own." Daniella seethed with hate and dropped the phone back onto the table before sinking back into the bed.