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 to be making his rounds

the evening gown

“Shelly said.

There was no way she could allow Mia to use

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

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

different light. He’s already less

have my ways of dealing with her,” Maya

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

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

and smirked coldly.

who was boss.

Eva asked,

president, Mia?”

at this. “Why do

Did Eva suspect something?

was just asking. I think

to us as a way of protecting his

Timothy had always been like that when it came to

they were. It was why

expanded so rapidly.

against the Barrett family. It had

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

was still shamelessly

like she couldn’t live without

anything about this to

was. After all, she’d always lived in Nord City and had never

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