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

a lesson, but I didn’t expect Timothy to be making his rounds

and even bought the evening gown

“Shelly said.

was no way

her to shine.

pretending to back off as

different light.

that. I have my ways of dealing with her,”

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hung up, her eyes darkened.

man, and he would belong

looked at the list of finalists and smirked coldly. This time, she would

who was boss.

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

president, Mia?”

faltered at this. “Why

Did Eva suspect something?

asking. I think

fussy bully apologize to us as

had always been like that when it came

they were. It was why Barrett

expanded so rapidly.

against the Barrett

he’d been madly in love with

worse, Maya was still shamelessly insisting on

she

to Timothy, though. He probably

After all, she’d always lived in Nord City and had never come to

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