Convenient Marriage: Mr. Nelson's Love Trap by Hannah Baker

The nature of Helen and Matthew’s relationship was widely known in the company.

Helen had been sending out signals about their relationship here and there, yet Matthew never objected blatantly or denied the rumours. Therefore, the others would have thought that he had admitted to the rumours.

At the moment, Helen was not only his secretary; she could potentially be the young lady of the Nelson family too. It was only natural that the other employees caught on to the importance of this fact and had tried to suck up to her in the company. This made her feel entitled and proud.

When Matthew was busy with work in his office, there was immediately someone scurried after her and whispered, “Ms. White, what did you have for lunch with Mr. Nelson just now? We are really envious of you guys.”

Helen cast a sideways glance at Dolores who was at one corner of the office and produced a smile, “Nothing much. We had the typical vegetables, crispy pigeon meat, chicken, some prawns...”

“Wow, these are your favourite food.” Sheryl continued to flatter Helen, “Mr. Nelson has been very thoughtful towards you.”

Helen replied with a faint smile while casually flaunting her freshly-made fingernails. Her silence was interpreted by others as admitting to their relationship.

Sheryl inched even closer, “Ms. White, when are you going to marry Mr. Nelson?”

Helen’s movements paused slightly as her thought began to race upon the notion of marriage. If it was not because of Dolores, she would have already been the young lady of the Nelson family.

It was all because of Dolores who had stood in her way!

Since she still had to keep up her good image in front of Matthew, she couldn’t really do any harm to Dolores in public. However, she could still inflict pain on herself through the hands of others. She could still manipulate others to make Dolores’ life difficult in the company.

She flashed a friendly smile, “Sheryl.”

“Ms. White, yes?” Sheryl had an expression of flattery.

“Our newest recruit who handles the translation job is really ignorant of the ways of the company.” Helen pretended to be frustrated slightly as she grumbled.

“Did she offend you in any way?”

“Not exactly, but it’s alright. You should go back to work now.” Helen purposely ended the conversation without answering her directly. She was sure that Sheryl would have understood what she had wanted to say.

Sheryl shot a glance at Dolores and turned over a thought in her mind. Was this recruit not aware of Helen’s relationship with Mr. Nelson? Did she offend Helen because of that?

That must be it. Since she was new in the company, she might have had innocently went up against Helen, judging that she didn’t know about the workings of the company yet.

As she returned to her seat, she was thinking to find a chance to teach Dolores a lesson soon.

up and disposed of the food packaging. She then headed to the tea area to pour herself

caught sight of her movements and decided to grab this

Dolores to bump into her, seeing that

walk properly?” Sheryl

it was the tea in her cup which was spilt onto

then

stunned for a moment. She didn’t expect

was really

use is there in apologizing? If I slap you across your cheeks and apologize to you, does that mean that you won’t pursue

woman being too forceful

being spilt with some tea? They were

you want?” Dolores’ voice lowered

apology, she had no choice but to seek

cup of water and looked at Dolores, “Since you’ve spilt water all over me, I will consider things to be even if you let me do it

the cup of steaming hot water in her palms incredulously. She

definitely suffer burns if that cup of hot water was

was only lukewarm at best since she was in a hurry to finish her drink. Even though some of the contents had spilt over to Sheryl’s skirt, it wouldn’t do her any harm at all. Her skirt

palm of her hands and glared at Sheryl intently, “How is that considered even? If I am scalded by hot

tried to analyse the consequence of pouring this cup of hot water

hot water was not steaming hot anymore after some time, so it would not burn Dolores severely. At most, she would

in some effort into

finish her sentence, with a flick of

movements seemed to affect the injury in her knees. Her body tilted to one side and she came

broke the silence. Some of the

by Matthew and for a moment

knew about the connection between Dolores and Matthew, but

anything on behalf of anyone because that was the only way she could maintain

situation. Since she had Helen’s backing, there was nothing for her

didn’t even apologize. I was mad, so I retaliated and

and there was an ambiguous

every time she was about to get up, she stumbled back onto the ground once again. Just as she was going to fall over once more, a strong hand suddenly seized her arm. With a jerk, she was suddenly in a

softness of her skin. It was as if the moment he

with a strange feeling clouding his heart,