Audrey just stood straight there with her slender figure.
When she got employed here, Cornell had told her that the Clement Group wasn’t a place for her to mess around and that he would not tolerate her making any mistakes.
Audrey could understand why he took this stand.
However, at this moment, she was desperate to know whether Cornell had heard those hard words Tessa scolded her or he was just pretending not to have heard because he agreed to those words.
Did he really see her as a tool for his pleasure?
Scared to death by Cornell’s rage, the crowd soon dispersed. A few employees were bold enough to peep from a distance, unwilling to miss the good show.
Cornell’s cold eyes made Audrey shiver from head to toe.
Audrey pinched her palm to suppress her emotions as she looked at Tessa.
“I’m sorry, Ms. Lloyd. As an employee of the Clement Group, it was wrong of me to have hit you.”
Eyeing Audrey, Tessa raised her chin complacently.
“Humph! Don’t think you’ll be let off the hook just by making a simple apology. I don’t buy…”
“The slap has nothing to do with the company. Personally, I refuse to apologize to you. Now, if you’d excuse me,” Audrey chimed in.
She then walked past Cornell without sparing him another look.
“You… You bitch!”
Tessa’s face turned blue after hearing what Audrey said.
Never in her years of being alive had she been so humiliated. She was always the bully, not the victim!
The humiliation was so much that tearing Audrey into pieces now wouldn’t appease her anger.
Pointing in Audrey’s direction, Tessa shouted, “Cornell, did you hear what that woman just said? She slapped me in the face, yet she’s still so arrogant. Call her back. I have to slap her until she cries for mercy!”
Cornell, staring at Audrey’s thin back, had an ambiguous expression at this moment.
“Enough!” he said coldly, raising his hand.
As someone who lived and breathed drama and cruelty, Tessa didn’t think Cornell was partial to Audrey just now. She assumed that Cornell didn’t care about Audrey at all.
Tessa gritted her teeth and said viciously, “Next time, I’ll get someone to teach that bitch a lesson.”
“Tessa!” Cornell’s tone and squint made it a reproof.
Tessa trembled at once.
With a somber face, Cornell said, “I’ll only say it once. Forget about what happened here today. Leave Audrey alone.”
The aura he exuded made her tongue go dry. All the vicious ideas she had in store against Audrey disappeared in an instant.
She stammered, “Ok… Okay, got it…”
Cornell cast a cold glance at her and spoke to Matteo.
“Irrelevant people wouldn’t be allowed in here from today onwards.”
Without catching the drift, Tessa flattered Cornell.
“Nice call. This is a top company. Not everyone gains access in here.”
Matteo nodded to Cornell and then walked over to Tessa. He gestured to the exit.
“Ms. Lloyd, this way, please.”
It wasn’t until this moment that Tessa realized that she was the irrelevant person Cornell just mentioned. She tried to speak to him, but Matteo blocked her way. The security guards then threw her out.
They showed her no mercy. Her struggle was useless.
Meanwhile, Audrey got changed when she returned to her office.
Her heart was filled with sadness as she thought of how Cornell looked at her minutes ago.
Closing hour soon rolled by.
Audrey took her bag and headed for the exit. However, Matteo stopped her.
He said, “Mr. Clement has something urgent to deal with, so he asked me to drive you home.”
Audrey declined the ride without thinking twice.
She was blind before, but now she could see through the situation.
In Cornell’s eyes, she was just a nobody.
How could Cornell agree to accompany her to visit her grandmother when he didn’t even care about her?
Upon arriving at the hospital, Audrey saw that the nurse was about to feed her grandmother dinner. Audrey took the job over and did it by herself.
All her life, her grandmother had been living in the countryside, enjoying a quiet life. Everything changed Last month when her routine medical checkup showed that there was something wrong with her pancreas. Audrey insisted on bringing her to the city for better treatment.
Her grandmother wasn’t aware of her marriage to Cornell.
Audrey had planned to surprise her today. But as it turned out, that was no Longer necessary.
Audrey waited for her grandmother to fall asleep before she left. She walked out of the hospital and waited for a taxi.
In the distance, a black luxury car pulled into the entrance of the hospital.
Audrey’s eyes lit up when she saw it, She recognized that car as Cornell’s.
Did he come to pick her up?
At this moment, she forgot all the pain she had been feeling.
Were her thoughts about him all wrong? Did he care for her, contrary to the gossip?
The door of the driver’s side opened and Cornell got out.
Audrey started walking toward him with her heart brimming with joy.
Suddenly, she stopped dead in her tracks.
Cornell had just walked over to the other side and carried a woman out of the car.
Worry and compassion were written all over his handsome face.
This wiped the smile on Audrey’s face. Her heart sank.
Cornell’s tall and straight figure got closer and closer to Audrey.
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