Chapter 262

Wendy stood there, frozen, her expression shadowed and unreadable.

By all accounts, she was the first employee Rowena had ever hired.

They'd worked side by side for nearly a year.

Logically—and emotionally-she should have been on Rowena's side.

But she just couldn't do it.

Wendy bit her lip. "Rowena, I'm sorry. I can't keep working for you. I'm quitting." Rowena spun around at the sound of her voice, her face etched with disbelief.

"Wendy, we've been at Seafarer Designs together for a year. You're really quitting over Isadora?"

Wendy's dark eyes met Rowena's, steady and serious.

"It's not about Isadora. I know I'm young, but I have my own sense of right and wrong. I can't work for someone like you."

With that, Wendy turned and walked out.

Almost immediately, the sound of Rowena hurling things around the office- objects shattering, drawers slamming-echoed through the building.

*

Down in the parking garage, Isadora slumped into the driver's seat of her car. She barely had the strength to sit upright, her gaze empty and her face drained of emotion.

then, the passenger

inside

the pale,

never wanted you to know about

like that don't deserve to be our

nodded faintly, not trusting herself to

car filled with a heavy

needed time

quiet too, simply sitting beside her as

came out

Nanette felt relief. She grinned teasingly, "Well... maybe just

composure

and you're still making fun

"I never thought Rowena could turn out like this. I tried so hard to

across the console and squeezed Isadora's

fault she took advantage of that. Rowena never

turned glassy as she looked at Nanette.

least I still have

know there's no one in the world I care about more

turning serious. "And, Isadora, I'm even more

*

suddenly remembered what

about his first love if she went

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