The Billionaire's Cinderella

Not being able to withstand all she had been going through, she endures her struggle as the beginning of her plight begins. Things has not been going well with her career. It all starts when Joana goes to Claudius' house; her boyfriend.As she enters the elevator that leads to his apartment, her heart gladdens because of the news of the partnership of her Swimsuit brand with the big Peony Fashion Enterprises. This has been the biggest part of her fashion career.

As she glared at her phone in the Elevator, light shone at a masculine figure. A man dressed in a luxury tuxedo of the Louis Vuitton designers of being six feet five inches tall. He was an epitome of beauty, having the facial description of strawberry blonde hair styled elegantly with adorable blue eyes, having his chin and cheeks covered with blonde beard hair. She loses concentration on her phone as she stares at him uncontrollably. The man asks her which floor she was going and then she stammers timidly standing beside the Elevator door muttering because she could not believe the handsomeness that was before her.

"Uhmm-umm,fl,fl-o," Joana mutters. The man then grabbed her and pushed her away from where she was standing because she was standing beside the Elevator bell and he pressed the floor button, he was heading to. Joana looked at the man with surprising amazement while still being on the ground. The Elevator door opens and the man adjusts his suit by pulling his suit up and dragging it up in a masculine way, as he goes out of the Elevator. Joana looks at the man with disgust and scoffs, saying; "How rude of him?"

"What a jerk!" She clicked on the fourteenth-floor button because that was where her boyfriend's apartment was situated at. As she got to his door with excitement, she rushed inside his apartment.

"Claudius", she calls his name tenderly. "Babe!"Where did he go? Where he could have gone?", she begins to question herself. She heads to his room and she sees a lady's shoe on the floor at the passage to his room. She rushes to his room; on getting to his room she hears a moaning sound at the door and her heart starts to beat faster as she opens the door. "Claudius!", she shouts. "How could you?", she asks with a shout of disappointment and tears rolling out of her eyes. The man moves away from the position he was in - on the lady out of fear and then their eyes meet. "Ashley, You!", Joana screams out the lady's name. The lady struggles to get the blanket to cover her bare naked body. "Owww, You are here?", the lady asks with no remorse on her face.

" I did not know you would be here", Ashley said.

"How could you do this to me?", Joana asks facing Claudius.

"I can explain, it's not what you think", Claudius said.

So what is it? A prank?", Joana questions while squeezing her face " I see you naked with this whore on the bed and then you are telling me it's not what I am thinking of ", Joana says as she fumes in anger. "Girl!, you watch it ", Ashley responds while raising her brows opening her mouth and then making an exclamation in disgust putting her hands on her chest. "The Nerve!", Joana makes an exclamation and then faces Claudius. "You,Claudius! You are cheating on me." "What did I do to deserve this treatment?", she asks. "I have loved you so much. I spent a lot of time, emotion, and love on you. I gave you my body, time, heart: and this is what you use to repay me." "Or was I not good enough?",Joana asks. Ashley laughs in mockery and says to Joana; "You think you are good. Nah.... dear", she nods. "You are a nerd, weird, and not cool. You see Claudius is too good for you ", she continues. "How can a cool guy like Claudius want to be with you? I guess you were being delusional " NARRATOR'S POV: Meanwhile, Ashley and Joana were classmates in high school. Ashley was the leader of their cheerleading group. She had always been a mean girl right from high school and the popular kid that every guy had always had a crush on . She was dating the leader of the basketball team when she was in tenth grade to show that she was one of the hot chicks way back in high school. Coincidentally, Ashley and Joana attended the same college which makes them know Claudius. Joana was studying Marketing at the University of Michigan and Claudius was a senior of two years to Joana. ***************************************************** "You see, Joana, the thing is that I ran out of feelings for you a longtime ago. You are not hot enough like the other girls. I have been trying to tell you that I had lost interest in you for a long time, but I never for once knew out to put it to you. But I am glad you got to know this way ", Claudius says. "Oh, really?", Joana asks angrily "Does that mean you should be sleeping with Ashley; of all people?" "You are such a jerk", she says with hot tears rolling down her cheeks. She walks out of the room. Joana cries out and leaves Claudius' apartment in dismay. Tears roll off Joana's face uncontrollably and heads to a place where she can cry out all her heart and be alone. She found no other place than the car park of the apartment to cry. She went behind a grey Ferrari car to cry behind bending low towards the car. She clamors out to herself; "Why? Why me? I am such a fool for letting Claudius use me. What did I do wrong? I gave him my time and energy ." The Masculine figure which she had met at the Elevator comes to where she had bent low and says; "Are you not civilized or what?" "Why are you constituting a nuisance on other people's property." "Why would you lean on my car and start crying like a toddler? Just move out of my sight. " Joana faces the man and looks at his eyeballs with anger and says to him, "Are you human or what?" "I am here crying my heart out and sobbing and all you can say is mean words towards me". "I caught my boyfriend sleeping with the bad bitch who had always mistreated me." "I spent so much time and energy on that relationship. But I just think in my opinion that you lack emotional intelligence and you are not witty enough to talk to me like that without even knowing me. You are big douchebag of a man." The man looks in surprise as Joana utters this statement, she then hits his body with his left shoulder as she walks away from his sight while cleaning her tears. "Wow! No woman has ever spoken to me like that in my life.", James says to himself. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Claudius did what?", Phoebe shouted on the phone. "I had always known he was up to no good ever since you started dating him about two years ago." "I am so sorry, you have to go through this situation at this period of the success of your career ", Phoebe says. "Owww, Phoebe what would I do without having you as my best friend? I just feel so down at this moment," Joana says. "Don't worry dear, take heart ", Phoebe says. "Good night dear. I would conversation by tomorrow. I am so tired, I have to work on my swimsuit collection ", Joana says. "Alright dear, Good night", she says.