“Are you an idiot? Why are you taking her word for it? I could say that you cozied up to an invigilator in the examination hall too,” Kevin, who came along with Jenna, peevishly remarked. “I’m not having this conversation with you.” Isabella rolled her eyes at Kevin. “Sorry, Jen. I talked to Miss Brown to help you, but I did you a disservice instead,” Kevin leaned into Jenna’s ear to whisper. While talking, Kevin switched to a frustrated tone of voice. “Sigh! I should’ve hacked into the examination hall’s surveillance while the exam was ongoing. At least, I wouldn’t have left any proof behind.” Jenna wanted to laugh, but she held back the urge considering Isabella was there. Taking Jenna’s downcast eyes for guilt, Isabella smirked. “Jenna, it’s cut and dry that you pulled strings, and everybody saw you. Your examination result should be voided. At this rate, there’s no chance of you getting into the Elysian Group.“You might as well make a public announcement to admit your w
Sam looked askance at Isabella. “What makes you think Jenna didn’t do well in her written test?” “The invigilator had a serious look on his face back then…” Miss Brown replied, “That was because Jenna got all the answers right. It was a perfect score. No one has aced the written test in the two years of hiring. Jenna is the first. If I was the invigilator, I’d probably be caught with a more exaggerated expression.” Isabella widened her eyes in disbelief. The invigilator’s grim face was not because Jenna bombed her test. On the contrary, it was because Jenna answered all the questions right. That was impossible! A gasp broke from the crowd. “Oh, my god! Take a look at Twitter!” Not knowing what was going on, the crowd checked their phones to see what was up. “Did you really crash Twitter or what?” Jenna murmured a question to Kevin while scrolling through her phone. She was dumbstruck when she read the Tweet. Um… “Wow, you’re bad*ss, Jenna! I can’t believe you wer
Miss Brown fell silent for a bit before saying, “We’ll need to investigate whether you have sought help from your uncle.”Paying no heed to Isabella, Miss Brown turned to the crowd and said, “Those who are hired, please report to HR at half-past eight on Monday morning. For those who didn’t make it this time, don’t be discouraged. The Translation Department of the Elysian Group recruits new employees every quarter. Just try and try again. Okay, you’re dismissed.” Since there were other matters to attend to, Miss Brown grabbed her documents and took off. “Miss Brown…” Refusing to give up, Isabella tried to go after Miss Brown, but Kevin took a step forward and came in her way. “Are you forgetting something, Isabella?” Kevin offhandedly asked. Isabella was furious that Miss Brown was leaving in a lift, and she could not do anything about it. She glared at Kevin. “What am I forgetting?” Kevin reminded her, “The bet. You made a bet with Jen at the restaurant last night. You said
Isabella gritted her teeth and unwillingly entered the restaurant to change into the bikini in the washroom. It was not as if she did not consider running away, but there was only one way in and out of the restaurant. She had to go through the main hall to get into the kitchen, so Kevin and the others, who were outside, would have spotted her right away. After stalling for as long as she could, Isabella walked out of the restaurant. Seeing that Isabella froze there, Kevin uttered, “Why aren’t you dancing? Oh, is it because there’s no music? Alright, I’ll play a song for you.” Kevin tapped into his music app and played a sizzling hot song. Isabella looked around at the onlookers. The restaurant patrons were also looking out. It had just escalated into a major event. She looked at Jenna with a stiff smile. Gnashing her teeth, Isabella lost the arrogance from yesterday and took a humbler approach. “Must you do this, Jenna? We’ll be working together…” Jenna, standing among
Although Kevin was quick to close the jewelry box, Jenna, standing right next to him, gasped at the sight of the pink diamond. As an heir to the Radcliffs, she had seen an array of jewelry collections in her lifetime. Nevertheless, Jenna had never seen such a huge diamond, and a pink diamond at it. Kevin shoved the flowers and gift to Jenna and exclaimed, “I got to give it to Boss. He sure knows how to spoil his wife, but my only complaint is that he should’ve set a more romantic scene.” Back then, he wondered if Boss got the pink diamond from an auction to give to Jenna. Kevin could not believe that his guess was right. Jenna got the picture from Kevin’s reply. She looked at the black roses in her arms, puzzled. While the gifting was possible, Quinn was unlikely to present the gifts in a flamboyant manner. The way she saw it, it was not in Quinn’s nature to do such a thing… Before Jenna could dwell further into the matter, the crowd started to whistle and shout, “Is
By the time Sam pulled into the Elysian Group’s underground parking garage, Kevin had ushered Jenna out of the crowd at the restaurant. The pair jumped into a cab, and Kevin finally caught his breath. Looking horrified, Kevin grunted. “We were supposed to watch Isabella make a fool of herself, but we were surrounded instead. Jesus, Boss’ gift sure gave us a hard time.” “Nobody can resist gossip.” Jenna was helpless about the situation too. It never occurred to her that despite the passage of time, the public still hounded the Radcliffs and was still keen on her personal life. Jenna glanced at the black roses in her arms and remarked with furrowed brows, “Are the flowers really from Quinn?” Kevin replied with certainty, pointing at the jewelry box in her grasp, “Duh, of course. You can’t find another pink diamond of its kind in the world. Some wealthy man bought the pink diamond off the auction, but Boss told me to get the buyer’s contact and bought the diamond from the buy
The assistant took a moment in silence before opening up. “Mr. Sadler, you might be overthinking this. The Foresters are one of the four most influential families in Portica, and I trust that there are strict family rules to follow. Even though Mr. Forester holds power in his family, he has to walk down the path of a marriage alliance to strengthen his connections and wealth. There’s no way he’d marry Jenna…” Shawn would turn a blind ear to these comments in the past. However, his assistant’s remark came off as harsh to Shawn. He scowled. “The Radcliffs were pretty high up the social ladder in Hevedburgh, so we can’t rule out Jenna marrying into the Forester family.”“The Radcliffs were in the prestigious social class but not anymore…” The assistant fixated on Shawn before cautiously adding, “Don’t you hate Ms. Radcliff, Mr. Sadler?” Why was Shawn angry that he mentioned Jenna? Shawn froze, noticing his abnormal behavior too. He loosened his tie for some air. “Did you pick
Jenna returned to Sparrow Garden at sundown. She was going to take a cab ride all the way home, but the taxi was not allowed inside the villa compound, so she had to walk to the villa on foot from the community gate. With a bouquet of black roses in her arms, Jenna furrowed her brows like something weighed heavily on her mind. “Miss.” Aunt Lily opened the door for Jenna. Aunt Lily was taken aback by Jenna carrying a bouquet of black roses and lamented, “I’ve been with you for over twenty years, miss, and I’ve never seen anyone presenting you with so many black roses. I heard these roses don’t last very long and are hard to grow…” Jenna looked down and realized that she had brought the roses back with her. The roses suddenly became a burden that Jenna wanted to get rid of right away. “It’s just a bouquet of roses. That’s all…” Had she seen the card right from the start, Jenna would not have accepted the flowers and pink diamond. “I’m not talking about the one you’re hold