Hiding Behind Her Superficiality by Kyla Olson

hapter 131

“If we talk about academic qualification, everyone here in this room graduated from top universities. These two directors sitting in front of you are top students from Konig University. As for the experience, you don’t have presentable work up to this point. I saw your Christmas special edition jewelry. There’s a reason the sales for that were mediocre.”

Everything Elspeth said was like a sword stabbing into Alaina’s heart, making the confidence that was left in her shatter instantly. Alaina suddenly felt as though she was just a clown, showing off her immature skills in front of experts and embarrassing herself.

“Miss Lynwood, we’re all colleagues. How can you say that to me?” With her innocent look, all the male colleagues around her relent the moment she cried.

Since reasoning couldn’t work, Alaina wanted to play the victim but was exposed mercilessly by Elspeth. “You start crying whenever you can’t win an argument. Miss Sullivan, is that all you learned in Winthrop Group?”

At that moment, Alaina’s tears were hanging from the corners of her eyes. It didn’t seem right to let them fall or wipe them off, so they were left hanging awkwardly there.

“Enough. There’s no need to argue anymore. I’m the one who decided on this. Does anyone else here have any second opinion?” After looking at the conflict between Alaina and Elspeth, Callum cleared his throat and looked at Elspeth with a resigned and affectionate gaze. Although he knew at Elspeth wouldn’t put herself at a disadvantage, the things she said would surely upset Alaina

for quite some time.

Just then, Edmund sluggishly raised his hands. “I do.”

Elspeth thought that he was going to stir up trouble again, but his following sentence shocked everyone. “I want to take a few months off for a little distraction. I’ll pass the vice president position to Elspeth for the time being.”

there was nothing for Alaina

ultimate word, finalizing

a humble smile on her face. “Miss Lynwood, I was a little too harsh in the meeting just now. I hope you don’t mind, but I didn’t mean to doubt your capabilities. I was just considering the best

the vice president, Alaina was afraid that she would rack her brain for

no worries about all the drama. Just like you

By the way, you had a lot of contacts when you were the director of the Design Department,

my list. “It’s been too long. I don’t even remember what contacts I had…. Aren’t you the director of the Design Department now, Miss Sullivan? Meeting new people. shouldn’t be a lot of work for you,” replied Elspeth in a perfunctory tone as

her laptop.

Lynwood? I can’t contact some of the people…” Alaina was so mad she was gnashing her teeth. If it weren’t for the fact that Elspeth had the

Quit being modest.” With a hand propping up her

Alaina heard that, she was ashamed to ask for her

If it isn’t because she’s the director of the Design Department now, no one will bother talking to her at all.” The colleague beside Elspeth showed admiration when she saw that Elspeth made

Elspeth’s interest, so she asked,

and seeing that no one was listening, only then did the colleague say in a low voice, “Alaina is the daughter of the Sullivan Corporation. Although she always puts on an innocent and adorable look, she’s very good at ordering people around in private. When she talks to the male colleagues, she’ll give them nicknames and talk to them coquettishly, but when she talks to the girls, she orders them around arrogantly. She’s super double standard. Very few of us actually like her, other than those men who are hooked,

knew that Alaina wasn’t a good person, but since everyone else knew that, it made her feel