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

didn’t expect Timothy to be making his rounds

out and even bought the evening gown she picked

“Shelly said.

no way she could allow Mia to use

a way for her to shine. It would only attract all

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

in a different light. He’s already less biased

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

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eyes darkened. She wouldn’t allow anyone to

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

and smirked coldly. This time, she would

who was boss.

the mall. Eva asked, “What do you think of

president, Mia?”

at this. “Why

Did Eva suspect something?

asking. I think he’s pretty principled,

us as a way of

Timothy had always been like that when it came to work. He

hook, no matter who they were. It was

expanded so rapidly.

Eva had been biased against the Barrett family.

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

make matters worse, Maya was still shamelessly

acted like she couldn’t live without

didn’t say anything about this to Timothy, though. He probably

she’d always lived in Nord City and

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