Joshua strode over to Luna and extended his hand toward her. “Give me the photo.”Luna frowned and backed away instead of complying. She knew that Joshua probably wanted to help her piece the photo back together again to make up for what Alice had done, but…This was a photo of her and Nigel.Even though Joshua had seen it before, he never paid much attention to it. If she gave it to him, and he restored it for her…Luna was afraid that Joshua would discover the boy in the photo was not Neil as he had thought.Joshua did not know of Nigel’s existence. As soon as he discovered Neil and Nellie’s true identities, he immediately took them away from her. She could not lose Nigel to him, too.“I just want to help you.” Joshua frowned and took a step toward her.Luna immediately shook her head. “There’s no need. I can do it myself…”“Luna!” Joshua’s brows furrowed. “Do you want me to snatch it away from you?”Luna paused, then lifted her head to stare at him.A flurry of emotions
“No… Of course not.” Alice bit down on her lip and stared at Joshua with a pitiful expression. “I wasn’t upset with you. On the contrary, I’m thrilled to be able to work at Lynch Group. I know that the reason you wanted me to come in to work is that you didn’t want me to feel bored at home, and also because you wanted me to get used to this place so that we can work together in the future, but…”Joshua narrowed his eyes. “But what?”Alice sighed and glanced at Joshua. “I was scared that if I start from the bottom, the rest of the employees will look down on me. Even though I’m the CEO’s wife, I still have to start from the bottom to climb to the top…” Alice wiped her tears and continued, “Joshua, you know that I was born into an ordinary family in Sea City. My family isn’t wealthy, and I’ve always felt insecure about that…”Joshua’s brows furrowed upon hearing that. He gazed at her red-rimmed eyes and heaved a deep sigh. “You’re right. Working with someone as skilled as Luna might’v
Alice turned around and shot Joshua a puzzled look. “Didn’t I…birth two children?”Was one of the children adopted? Joshua let out a bitter chuckle as soon as he saw her baffled expression. He was wrong, after all.Alice shot him another confused glance before she finally left the room.At the design department.Luna’s finger was wrapped in a bandage. At that moment, she stood outside her office as she instructed Shannon and the rest to find an empty desk for Alice.Seeing that Alice had returned, Luna glanced at her and said, “Since you don’t like my office, I’ve requested the staff to find a nice, spacious desk for you. You don’t have to do anything in the meantime, so just try to figure out what goes on in the design department every day and get to know the rest of your colleagues.”Alice rolled her eyes, turned around, and plopped down in the seat. Then, she gave Luna a wry smile. “Thank you so much for looking after me, Director Luna.”Luna frowned and shot her a glance b
Although Luna had zero intentions to look for Joshua, she still went upstairs and knocked on his room door.“Enter,” came Joshua’s emotionless voice from the room.Luna took a deep breath, pushed the door open, and entered. “Mr. Lynch.”Joshua flatly glanced at her before he gestured with his hands. “Take a seat.”“I won’t be sitting.” Luna took a deep breath, her gaze calm. “It’s lunchtime. Please try to make this short, Mr. Lynch.”Of course, she only said that in fear Joshua had realized the whole Nigel problem, yet he still wanted to keep her in suspense.At that point, she no longer had the power to change anything.If Joshua truly realized Nigel’s existence, she only hoped that he would be done with it quickly instead of prolonging it.To Joshua, however, it seemed like she was throwing a tantrum.He gazed at her with his deep eyes. “Are you still angry about the incident this morning?”Indeed, Alice had crossed the line that morning, and he had only lightly chided her
After a long while, Luna took a deep breath and smiled. “I just made a big deal out of it, really.”Joshua raised his eyebrows wordlessly as he studied her expression.Luna chuckled lightly. “Neil once had a nosebleed from the flu. I saw how many leukemia patients were eventually diagnosed because of unstoppable bleeding from the nose, and I, worried that he’d end up like that, sent him straight to the hematology department to have a check-up. In the end, it was determined that he only had the flu. It was just a scare.”Luna pretended to shrug relaxedly. “Many people get admitted into the hospital due to the flu in the winter, so the doctor made us stay in the hematology department.”Joshua squinted his eyes. “That’s all?”“Of course. It’s that simple.” Luna chuckled lightly. She snatched the photo from Joshua, turned around, and left.Joshua remained seated in the same spot as he squinted at Luna’s leaving form.The photo restoration specialist’s questions rang in his ears...
Luna secretly clenched her fists.Alice mocked her by saying—right at Joseph’s and Natasha’s faces—that her parents barely cared about her, but the couple kept agreeing with her, saying that Luna deserved her parents not liking her.The scene felt awfully comical and ironic to her.She took a deep breath, walked past them, and headed straight to her office.The moment her hand touched the doorknob, Alice laughed a little from behind. “Ms. Luna, are you not joining us? My mom made a lot of good food, and they used to be my favorite. I can’t even finish them!”Her words were like a sharp knife that stabbed Luna’s heart violently.Back when she was still Luna Gibson, Natasha and Joseph played favoritism. No matter what, they would always let Aura pick first.Even meals.Other than when she was sick, Natasha would rarely make the food she liked when she wanted them.It was only when Aura could not return from overseas did this husband-and-wife pair realized that they still had ano
Shannon glared at her and snatched Courtney’s phone.She looked at Luna’s first draft projected on the huge screen before studying Mo Sam’s draft. She went silent.It was too…similar. Almost exactly the same.At the same time, the others in the conference room started searching on their phones for Mo Sam, the talented genius.The moment they saw it, everyone was silent.Luna accepted the phone from her assistant, Arianna next to her. She furrowed her brows tightly.The draft was the exact same as her design sketch. Even the details were the same.She had been a designer for so many years. The number of times she encountered plagiarism was quite a number, too.Nonetheless, this was the first time that the plagiarized draft was published one day before her, and in such a public manner to boot.She squinted her eyes. Mo Sam’s intentions were clear. He wanted to steal the copyright to her designs right from the beginning at the draft stage.“Director Luna, what is happening?”
Joshua was looking at Nellie’s most recent sketches when Luna called him.He had to admit that Nellie was talented, but talent was not enough. If Nellie did not have such good guidance from Luna, she would not have been able to design such exceptional sketches at such a tender age of six.However, even if Nellie’s designs were pretty, she still lacked a certain charm compared to Luna’s.When his phone rang, he swept a glance at the name on his phone. He picked up the call in a rather pleasant mood. “Are you done with the meeting? Nellie said—”“Mr. Lynch,” Luna sounded extremely serious. “Please come to the design department immediately.”Joshua’s brows knitted together the instant he picked up on her urgency. “What happened?” he spoke in a low tone.“Something happened.” Luna took a deep breath. “My designs have been plagiarized.”Joshua shuddered a little.After a while, he turned off his computer. “I’ll come down now.”Joshua hung up and went downstairs.The conference roo