Chapter 74 Nowhere to go.
Mr. Baker laughed awkwardly. "No, what are you thinking? I just noticed that you've been busy filming documentaries and attending exhibitions lately, pulling all-nighters in a row. I thought of giving you a break, letting you rest well. Young people shouldn't push themselves too hard, your health is important."
Since Mr. Baker had said this much, Winona didn't insist anymore. Even if he didn't say it, she could guess the reason.
With two things happening in a row, combined with what Zachary said this morning, she would be a fool if she didn't understand the underlying meaning.
After hanging up the phone, Winona let out a long sigh... "Annoying!"
Layla beside her couldn't resist mocking. "Were you fired? Well, you deserve it!"
Winona frowned, turned her head to look at her with disgust, and said, "Why are you still here?"
"This is a public place, am I not allowed to be here?"
But Winona didn't listen to her and walked away before she could finish speaking. It felt as if she had exerted all her strength and punched into cotton; she said everything possible but felt even more frustrated.
After getting in a taxi, Winona called Zachary, but nobody answered even after a minute.
She didn't call again since he had thrown such a tantrum when he left in the morning. It would be strange if he answered the call!
She thought she should rest as well. She could take advantage of this time to choose a car, otherwise it would be inconvenient to go anywhere.
If she had known, she should have taken the car she usually drove when she moved out last time, it would have saved her the trouble.
She planned to go to the car dealership to look at cars the next day, but unexpected events happened in the evening.
As soon as Winona finished ordering takeout, she heard someone knocking on the door, accompanied by the landlord's voice, "Miss Sullivan, are you there? If you are, open the door, I have something to tell you."
Upon hearing this, Winona felt an inexplicable uneasiness. She walked over and opened the door, "Auntie, is there something wrong?"
Outside, there was not only the landlord but also two men.
The landlord put on a forced smile, "You see, Miss Sullivan, I've run into some urgent financial trouble recently, so I have to sell this property and can't continue renting it to you."
The more she talked, the less confident she sounded, and she couldn't even look Winona in the eye, after all, they had signed a two-year contract.
Winona suppressed her anger, "When do you plan to sell?"
The landlord pointed to one of the middle-aged men. "I'm bringing the buyer to see the house first. If it's suitable, we can sign the contract tonight."
Is this forcing her to move out?
Winona refused coldly, "Sorry, as a young woman, it's not convenient for me to let strangers into my home. If you knock on the door again, I'll call the police."
After saying that, she closed the door.
She walked back to the living room and quickly picked up the phone from the sofa to call Zachary.
This time, someone answered but didn't speak, waiting for her to speak.
Winona didn't mince her words as she scolded, "Zachary, aren't you a man? Is it because you got slapped this morning? You have the nerve to interfere with my work and instigate the landlord to sell the house? I used to think you were just a scumbag, keeping a wife at home while thinking about another woman. But I never expected you to be so disgusting! You are so skilled at stabbing people in the back, you bastard!"
She didn't stop talking for a moment, and finally couldn't hold back, bursting out with profanity.
At the entrance, the landlord who was locked outside knocked on the door a few more times. Seeing that Winona was not moved, she started venting with all sorts of vulgar language.
In this quiet neighborhood, even a loud conversation could alarm the neighbors, let alone her swearing in the street like a scolding shrew.
Winona directed all her anger towards Zachary, "If you really push me to my limits, I will just find a man to cheat with and let the whole world know that you have been betrayed!"
She was truly infuriated and said incoherently, "You didn't mind me fancying your friend? Since you won't let me live peacefully, I'll flirt with Samuel every day, holding his hand in front of you."
Perhaps this sentence struck a nerve with Zachary. He finally spoke in a cold voice, "Samuel wouldn't be interested in you."
"When I mentioned Fiona, I didn't see such a strong reaction from you. Maybe you're gay, and your true love is your friend!"
After venting the last of her anger, Winona abruptly hung up the phone.
On the other end of the phone was the office of The Bailey Group's CEO.
When was the last time the seemingly unattainable Zachary had been yelled at like this?
Dylan didn't even need to look up to sense the chilling aura emanating from Mr. Bailey. It filled the silent office, making one shudder.
Slaps, scumbag, cheating...
None of these words were suitable for an assistant to hear. His life was in danger!
Luckily, it wasn't just him and Mr. Bailey in the office...
There was also the woman curled up on the couch, her body hunched as if she was a quail.
She was the waitress from the room where Winona and Matthew had conversed. The audio recording was leaked online and caused a stir among netizens, who even exposed the protagonist's personal information.
Afraid of getting herself involved, she quit her job, and for the past three years, there had been no issues until today, when suddenly someone appeared, wanting to understand the details of that incident, and brought her here...
The news back then had caused such a commotion that even though she hadn't seen Zachary in person, as soon as she saw his face, she remembered him, the other male protagonist in the event.
"Speak up," Zachary's flawless face showed nothing but indifference. It seemed like he didn't care about the torrent of scolding he received in the previous phone call.
The woman was stunned for a moment before she realized he was talking to her.
When she looked up, she met the man's almost lifeless gaze, her scalp tightening. Subconsciously, she denied, "I don't know, I'm just a waitress. I was responsible for the first floor that day, I have no knowledge about what happened in the private rooms..."
Dylan didn't need Zachary's command and directly threw a stack of printed materials in front of her. The woman glanced at it, and her face changed, cold sweat seeping from her forehead. Her body trembled uncontrollably. "I...I didn't mean to, I didn't expect it to escalate like this."
Zachary said calmly, "Think it over before you speak."
She felt like a chicken being strangled, unable to voice her arguments. "I'm sorry, it wasn't intentional, I didn't expect it to spread like this."
The stack of materials showed her chat records with a few friends.
At that time, she was bored and casually watched the surveillance footage in the store. She happened to witness Winona and Matthew's "proposal." She couldn't understand why a woman would be so submissive. It was a disgrace to women. So, she recorded a segment to vent her frustration to her girlfriends. She never expected it to be leaked and eventually spread online.
At this moment, she glanced at Zachary's expression and saw his cold and unyielding eyes. She hurriedly explained, "I didn't leak it to the media, I only sent it to a few friends. If you don't believe me, you can check."
Zachary's eyes darkened. "A few friends?"
The woman nodded incessantly, on the verge of tears from the terrifying man in front of her.
Ignoring her, he turned and looked out of the floor-to-ceiling window, lost in thought...
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