After Ava said that in a joking tone, she turned her attention to Laura, whose face was gradually falling. “Actually, I saw the draft when I was bringing the coffee over to you this afternoon. However, I wasn’t in the mood to expose you then.”As she said that, she looked at Bill, whose forehead was drenched in cold sweat. “I also knew that you wanted to drive me away when you so kindly asked me to take a break and go home. Bill, we’ve been working together for so many years yet you think I don’t know what kind of person you are?”“...”Bill’s complexion was growing worse. Even though he was nervous, he still did not forget to retort.“Ava, what are you talking about? What do you mean I’m purposely driving you away? I saw how you’ve not been concentrating at work, so I asked you to go back to rest out of kindness. It’s fine that you don’t appreciate my kindness, but you’re even slandering me now. Y-You—”“Only dogs slander people. I don’t do that. I’m only telling the truth,” Ava
Ava slowly took out her phone. As she operated it, she said slowly.“Mr. Branson, I told you I was almost done with Mr. Rogers’ design a long time ago. However, my laptop at home broke down so I had to go back to the office during the weekend to finish it. However, you didn’t listen to me and you said I was too busy dating, that I wasn’t concentrating on my work at all. Plus, you were so sure that I had just randomly sketched something before submitting it.“Well, I’ve fixed my laptop and it clearly shows my original design, as well as the timestamps when I was working on it.”“...”The corners of Bill’s lips twitched, while Laura’s face froze.When Maisie saw Bill and Laura’s faces at one side, she was amused.“So where’s your original design?” Mr. Lowe asked.Ava smiled and turned around. “My boyfriend is sending it over right now. The laptop was just fixed not long ago.”After she said that, a tall and slender figure appeared at the door.When Ava saw Daniel, she smiled swe
“And you!” Maisie pointed at Bill without showing him any signs of respect. “You knew she was plagiarizing Ava’s work but you chose to turn a blind eye. You’re obviously keeping her as your secret lover!”The sweat on Bill’s forehead increased as he did not expect Maisie to directly accuse him.“T-That’s not it.” Bill tried to explain himself as he did not dare to offend Maisie anymore. However, he did not know what he could say.“If that’s not it, then what exactly is going on?” Mr. Lowe suddenly spoke.When Mr. Lowe said that, Bill was even more sure there was something unusual going on between him and Maisie.He could tell that his boss was siding with Maisie.Bill lifted his hand to wipe away the sweat on his forehead and stammered, “M-My eyesight is not good, so I might have missed it as I was not paying attention. Also, look, there are some differences in these two designs…”“Do you need to quibble over these small differences?” Maisie lifted her beautiful eyebrows and pee
Bill quickly shushed her and closed the door of the private room.“My queen, please, you should be careful when you speak. We can’t offend Maisie!”“What do you mean? She’s just a fresh graduate, so why should you be scared of her? You couldn’t even speak after she called you out.” Laura rolled her eyes while feeling pissed.Bill reached out and placed a hand on Laura’s shoulder to try to comfort her.However, Laura pushed Bill’s hand away in disgust.Bill was not mad. He reached out to hold Laura again. However, Laura did not avoid him this time.“Tell me, who is Maisie? Why are you so scared of her?”“My queen, couldn’t you tell? Mr. Lowe kept siding with her just now and helping her. Otherwise, how would we have lost?”When Laura heard Bill say that, she rolled her beautiful eyes and asked in disbelief.“Do you mean Maisie is having an affair with Mr. Lowe?”“I’m sure of it!” Bill said in certainty, “Baby, if you want to continue staying in this company, you should go and
Ava could tell that those were the voices of her colleagues in the same department.“Everything makes sense now. Who would dare to do that without being in that kind of relationship?”“Yeah, remember how pleased she looked last night? How arrogant!”The two people Maisie called out yesterday, Fiona and Kendra, were gossiping loudly and unrestrainedly in the elevator. They even mentioned Maisie by name.There were a lot of employees from other departments as well, and a lot of them heard their conversation. Then, they messaged their colleagues about this. Soon, this news spread to everyone.Ava could not listen to this anymore, so when the elevator arrived at their floor, she followed her two colleagues out.“Fiona, Kendra,” she called out to the two women in front of her.Fiona and Kendra stopped walking and eventually realized that Ava was also in the elevator.When they recalled what they had said in the elevator just now, their expressions started to look unpleasant.Ava wa
Ava could guess what was going on. She quickly ended the call with Madeline and tried to comfort Maisie.“Maisie, please don’t get emotional.”“Wait, Ava, what did I just hear? You just said that Mr. Lowe and I are trending. What does this mean?” Maisie asked hurriedly.The two of them at one side could not wait to tell Maisie what was going on when they saw that Ava was still hesitating. “Maisie, don’t you know what happened? Someone exposed your relationship with Mr. Lowe online!”“What? My relationship with Mr. Lowe?”“Yeah! Don’t you go on the internet or watch videos? It’s all over the internet. It even showed proof that you have an extraordinary relationship with Mr. Lowe!”“Someone even said that you snitched to Mr. Lowe, so that’s why he sided with you and fired Laura.”“I snitched?” Maisie pointed at herself angrily. “Did I have to do such a thing? It was obvious Laura had ill intentions and she plagiarized Ava’s work. The company treated her well by only firing her.”
When Bill saw that it was his superior, he was so scared he started breaking out in a cold sweat.“M-Mr. Lowe, you’re here,” he greeted timidly.Tom walked over and lowered his head to look at Maisie, who looked very aggressive.“What happened? Why are you so mad?”Maisie was fuming as she glared at Bill who could not even form his words properly. “Ask him!”Tom looked at Bill sharply after he heard that. “Answer me.”When Bill heard this, he was even more terrified.The rest of the people in the office raised their widened eyes to look in their direction.Plus, they could tell that there was something unusual going on between Tom and Maisie judging from how gentle and patient he was with her.How could a normal employee speak to their boss like that?It would be a fantasy!When they saw this, Fiona and Kendra were even more excited. “Did you see that? What’s being said on the internet is real! Ava, do you believe us now?”“But Ava, which one of your friends is so powerful
“Maisie, where did you go?”“I went to find Laura but I couldn’t find her,” Maisie told Ava honestly and sat down. Then, she glared in the direction where Bill’s office was. “He must know.”Ava understood what Maisie was trying to say, and she comforted Maisie, saying, “Alright, don’t be mad. I believe you. Those things online are all fake. You and Mr. Lowe are innocent.”When Maisie heard Ava say that, she felt much better.However, even though Ava believed her, their other colleagues did not.During lunch, Ava wanted to treat Maisie to a meal but Maisie ran away after she said she wanted to use the restroom.Ava waited for a while but Maisie was still nowhere to be seen. Hence, when she was about to call Maisie, the nosey pair walked over.“Ava, are you still waiting for Maisie? I saw her going to Mr. Lowe’s office just now.” Fiona told Ava with a righteous expression, “And you still believe there’s nothing going on between her and Mr. Lowe. Ava, she’s lying to you!”“No.” Av