Chapter 214 I Didn’t Plagiarize It

“Alright. I’ll hold you to it, then.”

The smile Elise gave Alexander was so sincere that it was practically infectious, and he voluntarily reached out to grasp her hand. “Come on, let’s go home.”

Shoulder to shoulder, they walked off into the moonlit night.

The next day, Elise went to work as usual, only for a grim Brendan to follow her into her office immediately upon her entry. With a complicated look in his eyes, he stared at her and pursed his lips for a moment before stating, “I have something to ask you, my darling sister-in-law.”

Startled by both the appellation and the stern look on his face, she urged, “Go on.”

After a moment of contemplation, he continued, “Have you finished the draft for your design? May I see it?”

Even though Elise found it to be a strange request, she carelessly flipped through her papers to locate her design draft and hand it over to him. “It’s mostly done. If you need it urgently, I can finish it by today.”

Yet, Brendan’s expression turned ugly the moment he saw her design draft.

“What’s going on?” she queried. In the next second, he lifted his gaze and stared right into her eyes.

“Did you show this draft to anyone else before this moment?”

After thinking about it earnestly, she answered, “No one has seen it apart from you. Why? Did something happen?”

answering her directly, he pulled out his cell phone and handed it

of the blood drained out of her face. “How is this possible?! This

first-rate designer, Coner. She announced it to the public last evening as part of her new series—the design I showed you being the main diagram. The whole series is in a style identical to

I didn’t

fact of the matter was that Brendan believed her, but his trust would do no good in

these diagrams anymore, Elise. You’ll have

that something was wrong. After all, she had noticed that someone had touched her drawing papers when she came back from lunch the previous afternoon, and now her design was on

she uttered slowly, “—and now I suspect that someone has stolen

felt like she was telling the truth,

be hidden or falsified. I will find the proof I need to claim my innocence. Until then, I hope

nodded obligingly. “If that’s the case, I have a

and he leaned forward to

down at the design diagram in her hands and clenched her fists silently. After putting the diagram away, she took up a blank piece of paper and began to redo

walked in with a

the drawing, Elise answered carelessly, “Put it down. I’ll

the coffee aside, she turned to leave, only to have

“Just a moment.”

back at that. “Did you need something else,

gaze was as clear as always and free of any stray thoughts, but Molly got the

a question for

added, “Go ahead,

something has gone missing from my office yesterday. Did

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