Chapter 40

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“Timothy, how could you stand up for Mia? I was so humiliated,” Shelly complained.

Timothy retracted his gaze and said coldly, “If I catch you doing this again, don’t even think of setting foot in any of the Barrett Group’s malls in the future. I’m a man of my word.”

“How can you do this to me, Timothy? I have shares in the company, too.”

“Because I’m the one calling the shots now. It’s bad enough that you don’t contribute to the company at all. There’s no way I’ll allow you to drag the company down.” With

that, Timothy turned and left.

Shelly was left behind. She stomped her foot angrily but didn’t dare to rebuke

Timothy. After storming out of the store, she called Maya. “I need to tell you

something, Maya. Mia actually got into the finals of the competition.”

“Really?” Maya had been too busy with her work to pay attention. She only checked

the list of finalists that had been sent to her through WhatsApp. Sure enough, she

saw Mia’s name on the list.

Her expression turned cold. “I didn’t expect her to be this lucky.”

Getting to the finals of the Fleur International Design Competition wasn’t easy. One

had to have some actual skill to achieve this.

“That’s not all. She was here at the mall to buy an evening gown. I wanted to teach

I didn’t expect Timothy to be making his rounds

gown she picked out for

“Shelly said.

no way she

her to shine.

should we do, Maya? Mia’s pretending to back

in a different light.

my ways of dealing

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eyes darkened. She wouldn’t allow anyone to take

her. He was an outstanding man, and he would belong to

and

who was boss.

Eva left the mall. Eva asked, “What do you

president, Mia?”

steps faltered at this.

Did Eva suspect something?

I

to us as

like that when it came to work. He

off the hook, no matter who they were. It was why Barrett

expanded so rapidly.

biased against the Barrett family. It had

after Timothy had had his accident. Before the accident, he’d been madly in love with Maya. Yet

was still

acted like she couldn’t live without

about this to Timothy,

was. After all, she’d always lived in Nord City and

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