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Charlotte thought the welcome party would be a dinner in a restaurant, but it turned out to be a drinking session at Sultry Night. To her surprise, Wesley was also there.
Wesley had already introduced himself to her colleagues. He also ordered bottles of expensive liquor, which were currently placed around the table.
A male colleague spoke up. “Mr. Holt, this liquor costs over eight thousand. We shouldn’t be doing this to our new colleague.”
“You don’t know?” Wesley grinned. “Charlotte is an heiress. She’s rich. Back then, she could pay for everyone’s drinks here in Sultry Night. These are nothing to her.”
“Oh? Seriously?” A few female colleagues got curious. They surrounded Charlotte and bombarded her with questions. “Charlotte, you’re an heiress? How unexpected!”
“No—”
“Of course, you are.” Wesley cut her off rudely and snickered. “The only daughter of the richest man in H City, Richard Windt. You’ve heard of him, right?”
“Richard Windt? The one who jumped off a building four years ago?” a man uttered. “No wonder the surname Windt sounded really familiar to me.”
“I think I read the news. The Sterlings called off their son’s engagement to Ms. Windt, and then she came to Sultry Night and spent the night with a transvestite gigolo. Uh, was that true?”
Her colleagues were staring at her, their gazes a mixture of curiosity, excitement and amazement as they waited for her reply.
Charlotte felt suffocated by them. Refusing to take it anymore, she stood up to leave.
The manager of the administration department, Roy Young, stopped her and chided the rest. “What are you all doing? Is this how you treat our new colleague? We are going to work together in the future, so please stop teasing her.”
“Okay, sorry.”
They apologized to Charlotte at once.
The moment Charlotte met Wesley’s amused gaze, she escaped from the private room without a word.
She wanted to escape the past and start her life anew, but the past kept haunting her. I can never get rid of it, can I?
Charlotte took a deep breath to calm down.
“What’s wrong? Was that so unbearable?” Wesley came after her and sneered. “How would you survive, huh?”
“You did it on purpose.” Charlotte glowered at him. “You deliberately hired me and made me treat my colleagues to dinner so I’d be humiliated. You’re doing this to take revenge on me!”
“That’s right,” Wesley answered, nodding with a grin. “I ordered food and drinks worth a few hundred thousand just for you.”
“Hey!” Charlotte gritted her teeth in anger. I only have three thousand left in my account. How on earth am I going to foot the bill?
“Don’t tell me you can’t afford to pay the bill?” Wesley came closer to her intentionally. “You can ask for my help. As long as you agree to spend a night with me, I’ll foot the bill. With my help, no one will dare to bully you at work and—”
Slap! Before Wesley could finish, Charlotte gave him a tight slap and yelled, “Scum!”
Wesley touched his cheek. Instead of getting mad, he chuckled like a pervert. “This is the first time you’ve touched me. Your hand is so soft!”
“You are a disgusting piece of sh*t!” Charlotte stalked off angrily.
“If you fail to pay the bill today, your colleagues might refuse to befriend you anymore. Imagine them being disgusted by you so much that they start ostracizing you!” Wesley shouted behind her. “Do you want to risk losing this job?”
Charlotte walked along the hallway in dejection. I can’t lose this job. But where can I get a few hundred thousand to foot the bill?
She was deep in thought when a familiar figure appeared in a private room ahead.
A man was seated on the sofa with his straight back to her. His white shirt was tied around his waist, revealing a vicious wolf head tattoo and a long scar on his back.
It’s him!
Charlotte froze in shock. Her heart pounded faster than ever.
The last time she saw the man in his car, she was so nervous and had held her breath dazedly. But he left before she could say a word. But now, the man who had destroyed her life was right in front of her eyes!
As she gazed at his back, sudden flashbacks appeared in her head.
Upon waking up in the hospital back then, she failed to see her father for the last time. She could only look at her father’s stiff corpse in the crematorium.
At the funeral, her relatives and friends pointed fingers at her, cursing her harshly and chasing her away.
As she got pregnant before marriage, people looked down on her when she attended her monthly prenatal checkups at the unremarkable clinic in the countryside.
When she gave birth to her babies in the hospital, she nearly died of excessive bleeding because she was pregnant with triplets.
It was all that man’s fault!
Fury overwhelmed her heart. She clenched her hands into fists and rushed into the room.
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