I Quit, Mr. Shaffer by Isabella Symons

Chapter 76

As soon as Isabella heard Jonas’ name, she knew it wasn’t good news. She

glanced at the clock and realized it was almost 10.00AM; she had slept

through the entire morning.

Yesterday, she might have gotten away with it, but this time, she couldn’t.

She struggled to get out of bed and nearly screamed when she looked in the

mirror. She had heavy eye bags, a dried and darkened face, and faint scars

on her lips. She resembled a female ghost.

Seth, you b*stard!

She couldn’t bring herself to curse herself, so she vented all her frustration on

Seth. She even brushed her teeth aggressively as if every ounce of strength

was directed at him.

After finally getting ready, she squeezed into the subway to go to the office.

While sitting on the shaky train, she suddenly felt a bit pitiful when she

reflected on her five years of struggling without a car while Seth, that b*stard,

had a whole racing city to himself as soon as he came of age.

People had different lives and different fates. It made her hate to even think

about it.

She grumbled the whole way, and even after getting off the train, she had to

limp along. Just as she entered the office, she heard Abigail’s girly voice.

“Isabella sold a sports car while you were away.”

Isabella rolled her eyes. Will you die if you don’t mention it?

She struggled to enter the office and initiated the conversation. “Mr. Stokes,

why did you return so early?”

Jonas still had wounds on his face. He had just boasted about bravely

some criminals. When he saw

hasn’t

dismissively. “Let’s not

and it’s even

3/9

she had wrapped her

visibly swollen

concern. “You’ve really suffered this time.”

a smile. “It’s nothing.”

so much hardship, it’s only right

the achievements,” he said all of a

them, especially Abigail, was staring with

pretended to be surprised and tried to

doesn’t seem right. I just accompanied you and didn’t

anything.”

It’s

warmly. “We might not

other now, but we’ll get closer in the future. This little

nothing.”

need to look up to

envy, and they would surely consider her part of Jonas’

‘team’ now.

forward to avoid Jonas’ touch and said, “Mr. Stokes, I’ll go

progress of the car booking.”

accommodating,

‘affection’ as he

odd looks she was receiving and

felt depressed as she accessed the

showed that the final payment for the car could be made. Since

some time, she decided to call Lara to

many times she tried, the line was always

increasingly suspicious and restless as her eyelid

twitched incessantly.

to overthink and

but the sense of unease and anxiety only grew. It even escalated

into a panic.

calls she made

opened, and Isabella’s

had helped her with procedures before, walked

up with your final

hesitated for a moment.

the

reservation for confirmation, but there’s no

internally alarmed but tried

surface.