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Chelsa wasn't able to understand what Kevin was saying. Lucy gets up and walks to him. '' But I had submitted them properly. Was there any mistake in it?'' she asked him. 

'' Problem? Just take a look at it,'' he throws the paper at her. Lucy picked them up and saw that all the papers were dipped into paint and there were scribbles on the paper. Lucy was horrified by this. How can this happen to her? She made sure that there are no more faults in it and this happened?.

But how did this happen? Meanwhile, Olivia was standing at the door she was smiling to herself. '' You deserve this Lucy." 

"I hope you will not forget that this is an important project. Please do something about it. You have to do everything from the scratch right now and submit this before the day is over. Or you can do overtime also. But I want this over by today," Kevin left after saying that.

Lucy was shocked by this. Chelsa patted her on the back to assure her. "I will also

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