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

bought the evening gown she picked out for the

“Shelly said.

was no way

to shine. It would only attract

Maya? Mia’s pretending to back off as a

a different light. He’s

worry about that. I have my

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

her. He was an outstanding man, and he would

list of finalists and smirked coldly. This

who was boss.

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

president, Mia?”

steps faltered at this. “Why do

Did Eva suspect something?

just asking. I think he’s pretty

us as

been like that when it came to work.

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

expanded so rapidly.

biased against the Barrett family. It had

accident, he’d been madly in

was still shamelessly insisting on

like she couldn’t live

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

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

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