Shrouded Affections Winning Back My CEO Wife

Chapter 59

Chapter 59:

Eileen’s waist collided with the table’s edge, her expression twisted in agony. Vivian’s question hung unanswered in the charged air.

Unfazed by the audience of coworkers, Vivian stepped closer. “Eileen, you’re shameless!”

With a swift motion, she reached out to strike Eileen.

Yet, Eileen caught her wrist, her gaze steady. “Blaming me isn’t going to work. This has nothing to do with me. We’re at work. Act like it.”

Kian and Vivian thought Eileen was an easy target, stirring up trouble and urging her to engage with Bryan when they should be asking Bryan to solve this.

Vivian struggled to free her wrist, her cheeks flushed with effort.

“So what? Are you scared?” Vivian taunted. “Scared everyone will see you for who you are? That they’ll judge you for sleeping with the boss?”

Eileen met her gaze coolly. “I’m just afraid you’ll embarrass yourself.”

Releasing Vivian, Eileen smoothed her attire and returned to her office.

The secretarial staff witnessed Eileen’s clash with Vivian. Upon Eileen’s return, Karla approached her with a stack of documents in hand.

Karla wanted to ask about the altercation, but noticing Eileen’s somber expression, she chose not to say anything about that and left.

The whispers had cast a pall over the office. Eileen was also lost in thought about the enigma entwining Bryan and Vivian.

A suspicion tickled the back of her mind. Perhaps…

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Bryan didn’t love Vivian.

Memories of Bryan and Vivian’s interactions drifted through her mind.

She couldn’t quite figure out if her suspicion was true.

A sharp sound snapped the quiet of the office; the door swung open. Eileen looked up to find Kian strolling in casually.

His conversation with Bryan remained a mystery, but the smile on his face had returned.

His eyes, however, were icy and calculating. “You have days left,” he told Eileen.

Eileen didn’t know if Kian was testing her by appearing clueless about the matter with Jonathan. She didn’t want to beat around the bush with him. “Jonathan’s out of the hospital. He won’t take legal action against Bailee,” she said.

Kian, eyebrows arched, lounged against her desk with a nonchalant air.

and Bryan is comforting her. Eventually, they’ll be together. You should walk

response was courteous, valuing the heads-up. “Mr. Warren,” she held her ground. “Yet, my fate as Mr. Dawson’s assistant lies in his hands, not

her resilience. It was the first time he had seen someone so fearless in the face of power. He offered a pat on her shoulder, a gesture heavier than it looked. Eileen shifted under the unexpected

been acquaintances for some time. I appreciate you a lot. But

those words,

screamed luxury, making

him was unthinkable

She knew that her life

her life would

from Bryan’s office, her smile was soft,

Vivian

joined Bryan for lunch with

cusp of forty, a widower with a son who

with Harlan. His company had been on an upswing, making his partnership a coveted

the key to Eileen’s leap from intern to full employee, prompting her to arrange

his son, aiming for top-ten class ranks

third place. Harlan, impressed, had promptly inked a deal with

gratitude towards Eileen multiple times. So, Bryan

had been almost a year since Eileen last

spirits. Why the long face? I’ve noticed some less-than-stellar staff heading our joint project.

flicked the ash off his cigarette,

light reflecting off her glass of red

attire, simple compared to Vivian’s polished look, didn’t

Our venture is moving smoothly. Eileen

finding fault but remained keen on engaging Eileen in

with ease, the top buttons of his

his conversation with Eileen courteous

since Mr. Clarkson holds you in such high regard, perhaps you should have a few drinks

offered the bottle to Eileen and instructed, “Pour Mr.

expression suddenly shifted to one of displeasure, and he discarded his cigarette, about to snatch the bottle from Eileen’s hand when Eileen nodded in agreement. “You’re right. I should pour

Bryan, then rose to attend to Harlan’s

she knew Harlan

her out for meals privately before and had gratefully

have a defensive stance against him now would seem ungracious on her

lingered on Bryan, his posture

the continued smooth sailing of our

certainty in action earned Harlan’s respect. “‘Indeed. Dawson has no pretenses, and Eileen, your competence is

glass, toasting, “Here’s to a rewarding path ahead for you

Then, he said, “Don’t feel obliged to drink up. A

still finished her glass and then settled back into her

in Eileen’s peripheral vision. Harlan beckoned Bryan for a drink, and