Winning Her Heart back (Emelie and William)

Chapter 360 Overwhelmed by Trouble

Even with William’s assurance, Emelie couldn’t find complete peace of mind. Since Jeremiah and Lindsey were willing to offer 50 million dollars to sway William, Emelie couldn’t imagine what else they might offer to achieve their goals.

She even felt anxious about receiving calls, fearing it might be the police asking her to cooperate with an investigation. The entire morning passed with her feeling distracted and uneasy.

During lunch break, several colleagues invited Emelie to join them at the cafeteria. Although she wasn’t very familiar with her colleagues from Swanson Corporation and rarely dined with them, she decided to go along since they had called her.

It turned out they were eager for gossip.

“Ms. Hoven, there’s a rumor online about Ms. Allen attempting suicide last night. Is it true?”

“Why didn’t you come to work yesterday, Ms. Hoven? Someone saw you at the police station. Were you called in by the police?”

“Ms. Hoven, is the incident with Ms. Allen related to you?”

“Oh, come on, don’t be so secretive. We’re colleagues; there’s nothing we can’t talk about,” they pressed on.

“Yeah, we’re just curious. It’s nothing serious,” another added.

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and replied, “If you must know, iny answer is “I don’t

scoffed, “You’re really aloof. It’s just casual talk. You don’t need to be so cold.”

Just as she was about to respond, her phone rang on the

had barely eaten and hadn’t slept well the previous night without sleeping pills. Feeling increasingly strained, she sensed a lingering PTSD–like reaction to

aside, she got

steps away, she overheard her colleagues muttering, “Who does she think

as they were falsely accusing her

understand what she had done wrong to be unfairly targeted by Elena and singled out by her

There was no

a deep breath

to her for work. He needed a document completed urgently.

past, Emelie could immerse herself in work without distractions, but today she found it impossible to concentrate. Her mind kept drifting back to

her phone to search for news about Elena’s attempted suicide. As expected, it was all over the internet. The comments were flooded with Elena’s supporters, blaming Emelie for

william horseback riding were posted back then, the worst comments were just about her cozying