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A few days later,
At the Blue Ridge company.....
Joanna's assistant ran into the big office. As soon as she entered the main office, she started shouting, “Quickly, quickly everyone, put away all the unnecessary things on your tables, especially all the snacks and cosmetics. Put it all away at once. Someone's going to come around later” She said with a tone filled with hyperventilation.
“Who is it?” Ella asked from amid the crowd.
The assistant put on an arrogant expression, “The president, of course. who else would it be?”.
“What!?” The crowd in the big office all gasped in shock.
“How come the President suddenly nurse the idea of inspecting our department?”.
“Who knows about that? Anyway, you all should hurry up and clean your spaces. If you fail to do and the President gets offended by this, just want to be scolded afterward” After giving out the warning, the assistant turned around and left in hurry.
Soon after, the atmosphere in the main office got busy as everyone got busy sorting out things.
Bethany glared at her space, which was empty, except for the files and the computer, so there was no need to tidy up her workstation. Due to that, she continued to sort out the manuscripts in her hands
“Bethany, do you know why the president is suddenly coming over to inspect our department? Why is he going on these rounds?”. Ella, who was wiping the table to next, stopped and asked out of the blues.
Upon hearing this, Bethany stopped editing her manuscript as her hands were left hanging in the air for a splitting second. Then, she turned around and gave Ella a meaningful look, she looked a bit baffled by her sudden outbursts.
“How could I know a thing like that when no one else has any idea about this matter?”
“I thought that you are quite close to the President, so I thought that you have an idea about this” Ella smiled awkwardly.
Bethany frowned in despair.“I'm close to Mr. Meyer? From where did you hear of such a thing?”
Bethany heaved a sigh of relief.
Bethany loosened her knitted brief and explained in a gentle voice, “The thing is, Mr. Meyer wanted to treat me to lunch to make up for the injuries I had sustained. He blamed himself for forcing me out and I needed getting injured, so he wanted to sincerely apologize that's it. So you are not allowed to think such things again in the future. What words get Miss Joanna's and told Miss Danica.....”
“I know. I won't say anything like that again in the future” Ella hurriedly interrupted her, seemingly a little scared.
Bethany looked at Ella deeply for a few seconds. She felt that something was wrong. However, she couldn't place her hands on what it is. So, she didn't say anything else and quickly bound up the collated manuscripts.
Just then, several sounds of footsteps approached the Design department.
A tall, handsome them walked in first, then followed by several other people, and one of them was Joanna.
“Mr. Meyer” Everyone in the design department stood up immediately and greeted him.
“You guys can go back to work first. I'm just bringing a few investors over for a tour of the design department. I won't disturb you” Zayn scanned the crowd before saying in a cold, clear voice.
When his gaze fell on Bethany. It was left fixated for a few seconds before he darted his eyes away.
Bethany sat down along with the rest of the people. Then, she grabbed the mouse and started working on a design.
However, in the next splitting seconds, Zayn car towards her along with some of the investors. Upon seeing this, Bethany was startled. she was about to stand up when Zayn urged her to sit down back saying, “No, you should have your seat, your feet aren't properly healed yet, so just sit down”.
“Yes, thank you President Meyer” Bethany smiled gratefully at him before sitting back in her seat.
Joanna couldn't bear to see this sight, so she nudged n as she complained in an aggrieved tone.“Mr. Meyer, this isn't right, we are all standing here, and she's sitting down. It's so disrespectful to the rest of us!”.
Zayn looked back at her and said, “That's okay. I'm licensed. I'm very sure Mr. Stone and the others wouldn't mind something like this.” Zayn looked slightly sideways at the few men standing behind him.
They all smiled and nodded.“Of course, it's alright, we don't mind it at all. Moreover, she's hurt”
After that, Zayn looked at Joanna once again and she seemed to see right through her with his deep, dark eyes, “Do you still have some other questions?”.
“Of course not. I don't have any more questions” Joanna was furious but she still managed to force a smile.
It has become a thing for her to see Joanna frustrated. Bethany lowered her head as she held back the urge to laugh and was quite in a good mood.
“Since you have any questions. Then, you should keep your mouth for the next few minutes. If you are going to leave your comment on anything I say, then you are also disrespecting me. Do you understand?” Zayn pursed his lips in displeasure as he gave her a warning in a calm tone
His voice was clear and crisp as if every word was meant to hit Joanna's heart.
Joanna's fact was be voided of color after being berated like this.
How could she have forgotten?
Zayn had always been a man of his word. when it's about his work, it was always a big no that he could not tolerate anyone questioning his authority or decisions.
She had just made a big mistake now by breaking his rules just to make things difficult for Bethany.
Zayn simply ignored Joanna and went ahead to introduce the investors to Bethany, “These are the partners of our clothing line and investors of the Oceania project. I brought them here to finally meet you. Their assessment is also required for you to fully become the chief designer of the Oceania project”.
Are they really that important!?
Bethany was a little taken aback ,but she quickly calmed down. Then , she put on a warm smile and greeted them graciously, “Hello ,I'm Bethany Quest, the candidate designer for the ocean project. I would really appreciate your guidance ”
Even though she was seat, the tone of her voice and the warm smile on her face didn't make feel that she was rude at all.
It was evident that she was indeed qualified in terms of etiquette. Due to this , many investors and collaborators were impressed by her.
“Okay. This time ,I brought Mr. Stones and the others over, apart from wanting them to meet you. I also wanted to ask how your designs are coming along?” Zayn asked.
“Im almost down with it. It will be ready soon” Bethany replied quickly.
Joanna was shocked! Finished?.
So fast! It has only been a few days, how come it's almost done!?.
It took her only three days to come up with a design?. Bethany had only worked here for less than two weeks and has already created the first design draft for the project.
Joanna bit her like as jealousy grew deeply in her chest.
Hearing this, Zayn was surprised. He raised an eyebrow and said, “That's perfect. A high-level meeting has been scheduled for tomorrow and Mr. Stones and the other would be in attendance. You can bring your design to the meeting and let them decide whether you are qualified to be the chief designer of Oceania. Is that alright with you?”.
He looked at Bethany after saying these words.
Under his deep gaze, Bethany subconsciously held up her head high in the air and answered without any form of hesitation.
“There is no problem, Mr. Meyer”.
She was very confident about her designs.
She had sent it over to Erica to have a look at it even though she was well a wee of her designing prowess, she still felt the need to get her opinions about it. Erica gave it a very high rating.
“Well, you should carry on with it”
After hearing her replies, Zayn nodded and then took the investors away to another position.
Finally, the group left after a quick look around the place's design department. However, Joanna suddenly turned back as she walked away. Then she looked toward Bethany and coughed slightly.
Bethany didn't know what she meant by that, so she decided to ignore her antics.
“I saw it with my own eyes, Bethany. You went out to have lunch with Mr. Meyer” She leaned over to her ears and whispered.
So that was it!