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

Timothy

even bought the evening gown she picked

“Shelly said.

scowled. There was no way she could allow

her to shine. It would

pretending to back off as a way

a different light. He’s already less biased

about that. I have my ways of

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darkened. She wouldn’t allow anyone to take

He was an outstanding man, and he would belong

list of finalists and smirked coldly. This time,

who was boss.

asked, “What do you think

president, Mia?”

faltered at this.

Did Eva suspect something?

nothing. I was just asking. I

bully apologize to us as a way of protecting his

always been like that when it came to work.

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

expanded so rapidly.

biased against

Before the accident, he’d been madly in love with Maya. Yet he’d married a

worse, Maya was still shamelessly insisting on

she couldn’t live without

this to Timothy, though. He probably didn’t know

After all, she’d always lived in Nord City

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