CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

“Oil?” Joyce was dumbfounded. “Why would there be oil in front of the restroom?”

“I’ve no idea either, but it definitely feels like it,” Natalie replied tentatively.

“Let me have a look.” Joyce helped her over to the side so that her friend would be able to prop herself up against the wall before she let go. The former then returned to the restroom door before bending down to investigate the floor.

She noticed the glisten of some watery substance near the spot where Natalie had slipped and fallen earlier.

“This should be it.” The observant woman said as she reached out and dabbed an index finger into the suspicious liquid. Her eyes widened as she rubbed it between her thumb. “It really is oil, Nat.”

“It is as I have suspected.” The fingers on Natalie’s supporting hand tightened against itself.

Having water outside of the restroom floor was nothing out of the ordinary.

The presence of oil, however, suggested something else. More significant to this discovery was that it was there only when she came out. This was proof of foul play, and she had a good idea of who the culprit might be.

“Let me have a whiff of it, Joyce. I want to know what kind of oil it is!” Natalie said in a low voice.

Joyce nodded. She got to her feet before she extended her finger.

lowered her head, a subtle fragrance hovered near her nostrils. “It’s an essential oil

to the type she had noticed on Jasmine. So it would seem that her

figure out where this came from, Nat?” Joyce noted the mounting anger apparent on Natalie’s face as she came over to

her teeth. “It was Jasmine. She did

fumed as she stomped her feet. She paused and looked to her

we are; to compete in the bidding exercise. When I ran into her in the restroom earlier, she told me that she was not

much.” Joyce was shaking with rage by now. “No way we are

sleeve. “The bidding process is still ongoing. If we were to confront her now, we could get blacklisted

may be right. We should return to the

“Okay.” Natalie nodded.

their way back in each

Natalie being helped in, she was simultaneously delighted

infuriated that Natalie

attention of Shane

he summoned Silas. “Get

a glance at her before he nodded. “I’m