Chapter 224 Well, too bad! She didn't want to play!

Instead, she'd simply take her severance pay, and go! Now, that was her kind of game!

With zero objections nor reason to linger, Willow bustled about packing up her things.

Just then, a figure appeared in the doorway to her office...

Willow sensed the visitor, but she was too eager to get going, so without even looking up to see who it was, she said, "Whatever this is about, I'm afraid you'll have to take it up with my replacement. I've just been let go."

"Fired on your very first day in your new position... that speed record will be hard to beat! Why, it's quite possible that you'll become a legend in the secretarial profession!" It was a sharp, feminine voice, full of mockery and disdain.

A most unpleasant voice to hear.

Willow looked up when the owner of that voice walked in: a woman in fashionable office clothing and exquisite make-up.

The sight of her was so unexpected that it took Willow a while to realize that it really was Edith Price.

up for selling out company secrets? And yet, not only was she not in jail right now, she was

for theft, and conceal the fact that Jasper Hughes was the father of her

an enemy. Willow was on her

At least I'm not the sort of person who can't be satisfied no matter how much they're being paid, so they've got to sell out their own

Edith was this other sort of

realized she was being insulted. The smug grin on her face wavered, just for an

the boss doesn't mean the whole world is now yours to fool. Someone needed to take the fall for what happened, and I had the misfortune of stumbling into that trap, that's all. In time, we'll see which one of us gets to

frowned at these words, regarding the woman

that Edith herself was

of creating a crime for

was she yammering about now, as though Edith was the

woman's face was coated with one solid

any more time bandying words with this

little laugh, she replied, "Indeed. In time we'll see." And then she hefted her bag over one shoulder, and made to leave. There hadn't

anyway: a coffee mug, some eating utensils,

she walked past Edith, the other woman sneered, "Don't think too highly of yourself, Willow Nason. You'll never be fit to marry Jasper Hughes. If not for his sense

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