Chapter 13
Lately, Fiona had been having a streak of bad luck and troubles. Last night, Harold's fireworks and concern made her feel a rare sense of warmth and care. After pondering for a moment, she took the gift from him and said, "Thank you, I will carefully choose a birthday gift for you."
At that moment, a drunk person in the car unbuckled their seatbelt and leaned against the window on this side. Harold jumped in surprise, clutching his chest.
Fiona quickly explained, "Don't be scared, he’s just my friend, and he’s drunk."
Harold waved and said, "It's alright, you go take care of him. I’ll wait for your message.”
Fiona nodded and went back around to the other side, got in the car, and pulled Ashton back.
“Stud! What a stud! I have to bring him back home.” Ashton slurred. Fiona quickly grabbed him and said, “Behave, there's no stud, you've mistaken!” She fastened her seatbelt. “Uncle Tom, let's go!”
Tom swiftly started the car and made a U-turn. Harold, with his clear, light blue eyes, shining and smiling, waved at Fiona from outside the window. Soon, the car left the dock.
Harold let out a long breath. Thankfully, he ran fast and caught up. He turned around and started walking back but after taking just a few steps, someone blocked his way. He looked over, puzzled and saw Bella standing worriedly in front of him.
In reality, she was about to explode. Darwin actually left her and went on his own. Although he left her with a car and a driver, she still felt humiliated. When she was angrily getting off the ship, she saw Fiona about to get into another car.
She vaguely remembered that there was a similar car in Darwin's garage, and she was sure that it was Darwin's car. She immediately wanted to confront Fiona and settle the score, but just as she was about to head over to her, someone called out to Fiona from behind.
She recognized the voice and turned around to see Harold from the Klein family running toward Fiona. She couldn't hear what they said to each other, but she saw Harold handing a bag with the logo of his family's Pearl Babe brand to Fiona.
The starting price of their items was several tens of thousands. How precious must it be if it was personally given by the son of the family himself? It seemed that Fiona was hanging around Darwin but also getting involved with Harold, Bella thought.
Bella's teeth were grinding in frustration as she cursed Fiona for being shameless in her heart., and she swore to not let this kind of person succeed or feel triumphant. And so, she went straight to Harold, intending to expose Fiona’s true colors.
“Mr. Harold,” Bella stuttered. Harold still looked confused and asked, “Who are you?”
Bella wondered if Harold had noticed she resembled Fiona to some extent.
"Mr. Harold, don't let Fiona deceive you!" Bella couldn't care less and went straight to the point.
Harold, who was just confused a moment ago, instantly turned serious. "Who are you? If you're going to badmouth Fiona to me, then you better not say anything."
After saying that, Harold was about to leave, so Bella felt like the world had turned upside down. According to rumors, the young master of the Klein family is a gullible young man. Was that really true?
If it weren't for Darwin being wealthier than the Klein family, she would have changed her target to Harold. However, even if she didn’t, having him as a backup option wasn’t a bad idea, right?
"Mr. Harold, do you know that Fiona has been with Darwin for five years?"
This time, Harold's steps halted.
Bella continued, "She willingly sold herself to Darwin for money in the beginning. Recently, Darwin got tired of her and dumped her. Unexpectedly, she turned her attention to you. I couldn't bear to see you being deceived, so I came to inform you."
Harold fell silent for a moment and looked up at her. "And then?"
Bella froze. "And then?"
"Miss, I will never judge the person I like based on other people's words."
After Harold finished speaking, he bypassed Bella and left directly.
Bella stood in place, frozen in shock as she thought, “What is so good about Fiona? Darwin, Harold and even Wyatt unintentionally protects her!”
Fiona escorted Ashton back home. Then she hurried back to her residence, planning to change clothes before going to the company.
When she opened the door to the walk-in closet, she was briefly taken aback.
Although she rarely went to Darwin's place, he often came over to hers. At first, he wouldn't spend the night. Later, he slowly started staying overnight, and eventually, he would occasionally spend his weekends here. He said he was tired of the food prepared by Michelin chefs.
Most of the time when he was here, they ate the food she cooked. Thus, there were quite a few things of Darwin's at her place. His leather shoes, sneakers, and slippers were in the shoe rack. His shaver and shower gel were in the bathroom. And half of the closet was filled with his suits.
As Fiona contemplated, she seemed to have a flickering illusion of having lived together with Darwin.
"I need to find a new place as soon as possible." Muttering to herself, she picked out a suit from the farthest corner of the closet, away from Darwin's suits.
Meanwhile at Solomon’s office, no one from Tony's team seemed to be happy. They all looked gloomy.
"What's with the long faces?
"Lost a contract and now not interested in maintaining your performance anymore?" Tony returned from outside and started scolding his subordinates when he saw their current state, with his hands on his waist.
"Boss, I can't let go of this resentment until the higher-ups deal with Ms. Fiona. I can't concentrate on anything!"
"That's right, boss, look at these dark circles under my eyes! No amount of beauty treatments can fix them!" Everyone chimed in with their opinions.
"What’s with the rush? The CEO gave her three days, and now that the contract is confirmed, she cannot escape!" Tony frowned.
At that moment, the door of Sales Group 1 was pushed open.
"Who can't run away?" A cold voice came from the doorway. Everyone turned their heads in unison and saw Fiona standing at the door, her curls extra voluminous today as she held a folder and a laptop.
"How dare you come to our department after ruining my contract?!" A beautiful woman who had just mentioned her dark circles jumped up and wanted to rush toward Fiona.
This project was initially hers. She was also the one contributing most to their team’s performance, and she had even found a good location to buy a house.
"Ford! Calm down! Assaulting someone is illegal!" Several colleagues held her back.
Fiona remained unfazed. "Who told you the contract was lost?"
Miss Ford's anger could set the place on fire.
"Who told me? R&K's vice president personally told me! He almost threw the project proposal in my face!" Thinking of that embarrassing scene, Miss Ford felt like devouring someone!
"Is it?" Fiona raised her hand and waved the folder in her hand. "But Newton's assistant just informed me to go to R&K at 3 p.m. to discuss signing the contract."
"Newton? A person like Newton..." Before Miss Ford could finish her sentence, she suddenly realized something.
Her eyes widened. "Who? Newton?"
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