The CEO's Empathy Pregnancy Pains

Chapter 156 Sophia's Suicide

At Smith Corporation, ticking off Emily was like ticking off Michael, especially for Nola, who was dressed totally inappropriately today.

On top of that, her rude behavior towards Emily got her the worst scolding from Michael. He punished her harshly, docking five months' bonus, and even made her write Emily's name five hundred times as punishment. Though that last punishment sounded pretty ridiculous, before Emily could stop him, Michael had already dragged her out of the secretary's office. They took the elevator down to the lobby. Emily snapped, "Michael, let go of me!"

Michael thought standing up for Emily would earn him some points. But nope, she still had that attitude. Out of all the women in Emerald City, she was the hardest to please!

Michael asked, "What are you doing now?"

Emily shot back, "I should be asking you what you're doing!"

Michael replied, "What did I even do?"

Emily said, "Enough! I don't have time for this. I'm going back upstairs!"

With that, Emily shook him off and headed back upstairs. She was here to work, not to flirt with Michael or compete with other women. Her goal was to help Michael with the documents and revitalize Smith Corporation. Michael called after her, "Emily, are you going to ignore my good intentions again? Do you even know what time it is? No matter how hard you work, you still need to eat, right? Or do you want the reporters hiding around to catch us arguing and post it online to create more trouble?"

Michael's words hit home. Emily fell silent and let Michael pull her outside.

She could hear him muttering as they walked, "This world is so unfair. Men always have to appease women. Whether they're wrong or not, it's always the man's fault. Women just get angry and need to be appeased, it's simply..." Before he could finish, Emily interrupted with a frown, "Simply what? Are you going to eat or not?"

replied, "Of

and every word she said. Her words were like orders, directing him and arranging everything. He wanted to understand his own feelings, so he tried to spend as much time with

She had swallowed all kinds of grievances for Michael over the past three years. Even though they were on the verge of divorce,

Michael asked, snapping her

as usual, he immediately gave his opinion, "There's a new Mexican restaurant at the entrance, or

Smith, can't we just eat something normal? Like mashed potatoes, steak, or do you CEOs have different tastes? Why not just

liked going along with

"Fine, let's have steak, so

thing, saying another. Michael didn't even mind

being photographed by reporters or because there were people around, Emily noticed that Michael had become much more patient. Not only that,

as the atmosphere between them eased, Michael's phone rang

Michael answered, "Hello?"

was from Evelyn, using Sophia's phone. "Mr. Smith! It's me, I'm Sophia's mother! Something terrible has happened, Sophia tried

seemed like concerned tension. She was also surprised, why would Sophia

happened?" Michael continued to ask the person on the

what the outcome would be. Whether Sophia's suicide was real or fake,

lunch; she probably wouldn't see Michael for the rest of the day. Emily knew every trick of this mother-daughter duo. She was absolutely confident

enough, she could hear Evelyn on the other end of the line continuously playing the victim, even