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

but I didn’t expect Timothy to be making his rounds today.

even bought the evening gown she picked

“Shelly said.

scowled. There was no way

as a way for her to shine. It would only

do, Maya? Mia’s pretending to

a different light. He’s already less biased against

about that. I have my ways of

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up, her eyes darkened. She wouldn’t allow anyone to take

outstanding man, and he would

at the list of finalists and smirked coldly.

who was boss.

and Eva left the mall. Eva asked, “What

president, Mia?”

this. “Why do

Did Eva suspect something?

I was just asking. I think he’s pretty

us as

Timothy had always been like that when

no matter who they were. It was why

expanded so rapidly.

today, Eva had been biased against the Barrett family. It

been madly in love with Maya. Yet he’d married

make matters worse, Maya was still shamelessly insisting

acted like she couldn’t live without

anything about this to Timothy, though. He

was. After all, she’d always lived in Nord City and had never

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