Bailey's lips twitched at Jessica's outburst. She sighed and lamented, “Ms. Tanner is Eve Lussohn's student, so she is perfectly qualified for the task. Why did you all have to drag me into this?”

Bailey's lips twitched at Jessica's outburst. She sighed and lamented, “Ms. Tanner is Eve Lussohn's student, so she is perfectly qualified for the task. Why did you all have to drag me into this?”

Stephen smiled lightly and replied, “This is a great opportunity for you, Ms. Jefferson. As you know, Ms. Caridee is one of the Ten Acclaimed Socialites. If you produce a design to her satisfaction, you'll cement a career in this industry.”

Bailey scoffed in response.

She had her reasons for not caring for the opportunity.

Nonetheless, she replied half-heartedly to Stephen, “Fine. I'll try my best. If there's nothing else, I'm heading out.”

Stephen waved the phone in his hand at her and smiled. “Victoria texted me earlier, instructing me to personally escort you to the HR department after our conversation.”

Dread filled Bailey's soul. She could guess why Victoria was looking for her.

Bailey explained, “That, erm, nothing happened between Mr. Luther and me when I went to the CEO's office the other day. I swear. It's just a misunderstanding.”

“Your good friend Victoria is the one who has the misunderstanding.”

After leaving the director's office in the design department, Bailey turned down Stephen's offer to accompany her and headed to the HR department alone.

She walked past a few female employees gossiping in the pantry.

“Did you all hear? The designer sent from the Archulean branch to challenge Ms. Tanner is the heiress of the Jefferson family, Ms. Bailey. Sound familiar? She's the future Mrs. Luther's older sister.”

“Heiress? Please! How can she be considered an heiress? Mr. Jefferson kicked her out of the family ages ago for her sordid character. I have no idea how she caught Mr. Rhoudin's eye, and I can't believe she's shameless enough to challenge Ms. Tanner. What a joke!”

“Maybe she climbed into Mr. Rhoudin's bed to snag herself such a precious opportunity. I mean, didn't she do something similar to gain five million seven years ago?”

“Oh, you have a point. She must be skilled at seducing and pleasuring men. Her playbook must be pretty extensive.”

“Haha!”

sneers echoed in the cramped

seem pretty

stern reprimand suddenly cut through their laughter, startling the female employees into

frowned at the interruption. She was enjoying her eavesdropping until Victoria showed up and abruptly cut the

Victoria coming toward her, Artemis by

found herself pitying the

about me behind my back will hardly scathe me. The only goal they'll achieve is to attract trouble for themselves.

and chided, “What's wrong with you, woman? Why are you still leisurely eavesdropping on them when they're b*tching about you? Are you truly so unbothered by their comments,

get upset. Women get wrinkles easily if

shouted, “Is Luther Group paying you all tens of thousands a month so you can gossip in the office?

employees

their means to secure a position in the company and were the envy of their friends and families.

Saunders, we were wrong. We shouldn't have gossiped about malicious rumors. I hope you can

also the aspect of freedom of speech. You can't fire us for expressing

contract over minor offenses, it is obligated to pay its

penalty?” Artemis finally spoke, his deep and

even if he did not seem enraged, his word

“M-Mr. Luther...”

stuttered fearfully, their

glanced coldly at the group before pointing at Bailey and

stared at Bailey. Their

glance and realized his dark eyes were staring

sparks flew when

Ministry of Labor. Have these people's names placed on

as the female employees collapsed on the

placed on the employment blacklist meant no

effectively cutting off their means

stunned by his order, though her gaze quickly

he hardly

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