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

even bought the evening gown she picked out for the

“Shelly said.

Maya scowled. There was no way she could allow Mia

way for her to shine. It would only attract

do, Maya? Mia’s pretending to back

light.

have my ways of dealing with

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darkened. She

an outstanding man, and he would belong to

of finalists and smirked coldly. This

who was boss.

Eva asked,

president, Mia?”

faltered at this.

Did Eva suspect something?

was just asking. I think he’s

as a way

like that when it came to work. He wouldn’t

who they were. It was

expanded so rapidly.

had been biased against the Barrett family.

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

Maya was still shamelessly insisting

like she

say anything about this to Timothy, though.

always lived in Nord City and had never come to

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