Tears welled up in Miles’s beautiful, dark eyes. He pursed his lips as despair filled his innocent-looking face. 

 

Had Catelyn truly abandoned him? She even stopped answering the calls… 

At that moment, he looked around the house he was in. It was a cage with guards, everything felt cold, and he was suddenly overwhelmed by fear. 

He desperately wanted to see Catelyn again and was far from wanting to remain cooped up in his place. He had to get out. 

He sniffled and quickly wiped away his tears. 

Crying was for the weak, and he had to be strong enough to protect his mother. 

… 

Catelyn had prepared breakfast and called Ollie out for the meal. 

The boy did so with composure, and no one could tell that he was not Miles at all. Catelyn did not think much of it and simply sent him off to the kindergarten like usual. Before leaving, she even gave him a peck, to which the boy blushed shyly. 

… 

The moment she arrived at BrightGene, she could distinctly sense that everyone was staring at her oddly. 

“So she’s the daughter of a murderer?” 

“We never heard anything about it before, but I guess the Mason family ran some checks on her background for trying to get closer to the young master, and she ended up being put back to her place.” 

“Isn’t that right? The Masons are now saying that they don’t want her designing the young master’s birthday mansion…” 

“Heh! Don’t run your mouths like that, look at how upset she’s getting.” 

someone even raised their voice on purpose as though they were

of head designer, after all, and there had always been other women in the office who were envious of her looks. They had gotten the information that she used to be a lady of the Clark family from certain sources and naturally felt like teasing Catelyn about

where there were

saying could not even begin to compare with what those loan sharks said to her before. If she could survive that, she could

desk. “Catelyn, Manager Norman is

and went to knock on Manager Norman’s

you need

to you about.” Manager Norman was a man in his forties with a beer belly and his hair thinning out at the top. When he looked at Catelyn, his eyes would always shine

was a relative to the Atherton family, and his status in the

closed the door while Manager Norman shut the curtains, turning the spacious office

on the couch and pointed at his

inwardly with chills running down her spine. She stood still and said, “Please say what you need to say, Sir.”

legs as his gaze wandered from Catelyn’s face to her body. He swallowed

not sure where the rumors started, but those are all nothing but gossip. Rest assured, Sir, that this won’t affect my work,” Catelyn promised. She really

 

know, you’ve always been excellent at your job, and you just need an opportunity to climb up the ladder. If only you’re willing to make some sacrifices, I’ll make sure that I give you back the project for Young Master Mason’s birthday mansion.”

them could not have been clearer, and all the hair on Catelyn’s skin

trip with Manager Norman, and he had accidentally seen her right after she had taken a bath. The client at the time wanted a document, and

her on the way and was instantly stunned. Ever since then, he had never ceased dropping creepy hints at her.

he could not

was taken from Catelyn at the direct order of Cedrick Mason, so Terry could

it and said, “Thank you for believing in me, but I’m far too unworthy of such an enormous

it the hard

intend on taking

mind and he slammed his palm against the table before barking, “Those rumors of yours had brought terrible influence to this company, and in

it a point to pause as his expression grew smug and cast her a wretched sneer. “If you

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