Right Person, Wrong Time

Chapter 18 Counter

Since the Mann Family earned their living in the clothing industry, offending F&M Apparel would only bring doom. Although Mann Clothing Co. was one of the leading clothing corporations in Lumore, they were only a speck of dust compared to F&M Apparel.

Breaking drops of sweat on his forehead, Joseph immediately grew remorseful remembering the words he had spoken to Nicole previously. Back then, he had indeed listened to Queenie without considering the truthfulness of her words and ended up believing that Nicole was pretending to be Lisa. Because of that, he had thoroughly displeased the entire F&M Apparel corporation.

Seeing how Joseph switched sides so quickly, Queenie was infuriated. Nonetheless, she could only hold her anger in. “I’m sorry for my ignorance, Miss Lisa,” she apologized. As Colton needed the collaboration with Lisa, if she were to destroy his chance at that, she could forget about being the young mistress-to-be of Gardner Corporation.

Looking at Queenie who was so apologetic, Nicole smiled lightly and faintly replied, “Well, I’m not an unreasonable person. Just be cautious in the future, will you?”

to humiliate her further. She didn’t expect Nicole to

“I don’t really mind it personally, but I’m here representing the entire design team of F&M Apparel. And by embarrassing me, you embarrass my entire design team. There’s no way I’ll let the members of my design team be perceived as weaklings.” Nicole accented her

on the edge, if Nicole were to go on rebuking her, the Gardners just might turn on her. By then, the Anderson Family would have no one else to rely on. She glanced at Colton, who was not far away, only to find him watching idly, having no intention to back her up. Thereupon, she could only swallow her pride and play the sibling card. “Um… look, Nicole. We’re sisters, aren’t we? At the end of the day, the same blood flows in

behaving as petty as a timid little puppy. She unaffectedly

she was speaking, she turned to Joseph. “Mr. Mann, as I said, F&M Apparel will never establish any partnership with the Mann

the world, Joseph felt insulted for being confronted in front of a gargantuan number of guests—including countless reputable figures in the country—attending the annual dinner. He felt thoroughly ashamed, being ridiculed by the crowd. Nevertheless, the person right before him was Lisa, so he could only withstand it and

with Joseph, fled the scene in despair. A hint of malice flashed