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Jasmine glanced at his palms wrapped firmly around her wrist and then at him. His face was red with anger and even though she should be frightened to her bones right now , she wasn't.

She didn't know where the courage came from earlier but she was absolutely satisfied with herself.

She had been insulted so many times just because she was a waitress , even though she had made a slight mistake in his orders he shouldn't have called her names. Now she knew all the stories she heard about him are not actually rumors , he was her best description of arrogant with a pinch of proud.

"What is going on here?!" She heard a familair voice call out and she immediately wiggled her hands off his grip , turning to face the angry look on her boss's face.

She knew she messed up big time and her boss wouldn't be a tiny bit happy with that.

" What did you do Jas?!" Her boss asked angrily.

She bit her lower lip and turned to look at Tyler.

"It wasn't my fault" she muttered.

"I'm really sorry Mr Pierce , pardon her actions" Madam Lise ( Her boss ) pleaded.

" You'll regret this!"he snapped at Jasmine angrily before leaving .

She secretly grinned.

With what just happened, she hoped he wouldn't have the guts to try it with any other person.

Madam Lise turned to her with a very displeased look.

"My office" she snapped and walked away immediately.

"I'm really sorry" Jasmine muttered to the other people in the restaurant as she followed her boss.

..

"I cannot believe you did that! You've always been the best worker here , what got on your nerves?!"

" I already told y'all this! The customer is always right! You're serving them for their money! No other thing should matter to you"

"No! No, this isn't right" Jasmine shook her head.

" Because there's this stupid saying of the customer is always right doesn't give him the audacity to call me a beach!"

" I mean , excuse him! I'm human and I have feelings, which includes being hurt!"

" I know Jasmine but you need to ignore some things " Her boss replied quietly.

" I did , I ignored him calling me dumbass and ugly, but beach? Dude went too far!" She frowned.

" And besides I was going to get him what he ordered already and -"

She suddenly paused and looked at her boss , holding the tears that threatened to spilled out.

All this trying to explain herself was doing her no good. No one will ever understand her point.

"You know what ma'am? It's fine if you fire me"

" And I'm sorry if I caused a ruckus in your restaurant" she forced a smile.

" I'm not going to fire you, I'll give you a last chance"

" But don't you dare try that again!"

She forced a grateful smile.

" Thank you so much ma'am"

" But it's not over, you'll get only half your pay this month and if any issues come up with Tyler, you'll find a way to solve it because you owe us one"

" Now go on and clean the mess you made, I have some things to work out" Her boss added .

She nodded and walked out.

She didn't care about her boss cutting her salary into half, as far as she got one that month.

She hoped Tyler wouldn't try to bring anything against her .

She walked back to the table and grabbed the glass cup. She dropped it in the kitchen and headed into the store room.

"Jas!!" A voice screamed immediately she stepped foot in the store room , causing her to almost slip on the tiled floor .

She looked up and sighed when she saw who it was.

"June! Please don't sneak up on me like that again" she warned, grabbing a mop stick.

"Whatever did you display out there?!You have any idea who he is?!What if he comes after you?!" June snapped.

" Quit screaming June! My ears are hurting from all these trash" she retorted.

" So I heard you emptied smoothie on him?"

"Wow! That's the only side of the story people hear" she rolled her eyes , sarcasm dripping off her voice.

" Nobody heard when he called me dumbass, ugly and a beach" she added.

" Just nice" she let out a small chuckle.

" That jerk! He did?!" June raised her brows.

" Here you were criticizing me" Jasmine rolled her eyes.

"I'm sorry best, I didn't know that was what the jerk did, now I know those rumors actually aren't rumors, he's a real life jerk"

" Okay he's gone now, I fought for myself and now the place is messed up, will you help me clean up?" she pouted.

June scratched the nape of her neck.

"See you later" June winked and dashed out of the store room immediately.

" Traitor! " She yelled after her as she grabbed the mop stick and bucket and walked out.

Thanks to Tyler Pierce, she had extra work to do and she lost half her salary.

THE PIERCE'S,

TYLER'S OFFICE

"Argh!!!" Tyler yelled , kicking the mini shelf beside his table and it came crashing down with all the files in it.

"You need to calm down , dude" Gael sighed.

" If you had a smoothie emptied all over your body would you calm down?" He retorted.

" It wouldn't even happen" Gael muttered.

" But then you shouldn't have called her names, she was going to replace it for you when you called her a beach "

" I sure would have done worse if it were to be me" Gael added .

" So you blame me now huh? This was all your fault you know"

" Dude! How is this my fault now?! I was ju-" Gael's statement was interrupted by the knock on the door.

"Who the heck is that?!" Tyler snapped angrily.

"Cherry, Sir"

" Leave!"

" But sir"

"Don't make me repeat myself Cherry!" He yelled out.

He heard her mumble some words before her retreating footsteps.

He released an exasperated sigh and turned to Gael.

"I'm going to make sure she pays for everything she did" He continued , his jaw clenching in anger.

He'll sure make her regret everything that she did.

"You're not going to do that " Gael shook his head.

"Watch me" He smirked .

His phone suddenly rang out and he glanced at the caller before picking up.

"Boss, you are on the news" The voice at the other end said immediately.