Chapter 9
ed as she turned off the livestream. Jessica finished speaking and cried as she turned off the livestream.
Bernadette looked at the dark screen and just felt cold all over. The reporters around her crowded together, and their questions were so noisy she couldn’t make out what they were saying.
It wasn’t until the office building sent security that she was rescued.
And sure enough, the internet blew up.
“Oh my, it turned around! It actually turned around!”
“She cheated herself, so why should anyone else stay loyal for her? That’s funny. I supported Mr. Nolan going after true love!”
“You guys only cared about who cheated. Didn’t anyone think it was gross that Bernadette went after a pregnant woman?”
Jessica set up quite a show, not only cleared her own name, but also posted some travel photos with Nolan on Twitter, and some people were even calling it sweet.
Looking at Bernadette, her studio was surrounded by reporters, she couldn’t go to the studio, and even when she went downstairs, she saw someone had spray–painted the word “disgusting” on her car!
Bernadette looked at the bright red letters on the car and just felt really tired.
She wanted to call someone to tow the car for a wash, but as soon as she took out her phone, it got slapped out of her hand.
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Bernadette turned around in shock and saw a few strange, fierce–looking underage girls standing in front of her.
“Bad woman! Jessica was so pitiful, and you actually pushed her!”
“Why aren’t you dead yet? How do you still have the nerve to live in this world?”
They looked angry and spoke harshly, even saying they wanted to fight.
Bernadette just couldn’t believe it.
She never thought Jessica actually incited minors to go against her.
Back then, even if she fought back, the law would still protect minors.
Bernadette was almost out of options. Just then, a car horn suddenly blared behind her. She turned her head and saw a car’s headlights flashing
really bright.
Those girls saw someone coming and ran off right away.
Bernadette finally saw who it was–it was Declan.
She let out a sigh of relief and picked up her phone, still a bit shaken.
But a hand was even faster than her and picked it up, handing the phone to her.
Bernadette took it and gave a wry smile, asking Declan, “Why are you here?”
“The last picture had some issues, so I took you to fix it, but then I thought you probably couldn’t go out, so I came to pick you up.”
Declan sounded relaxed, but when he looked at Bernadette’s car covered
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in paint, his eyes were full of ice.
“Looks like my gut was right, I’d better stick with my car.”
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Declan looked pretty laid–back, but he wasn’t sloppy when it came to serious stuff. As soon as he got to the office, he called the team for a meeting, sorted everything out with a solution, and got things done crazy
fast.
As the meeting was about to end, someone suddenly said, “Wait a second.”
Bernadette looked up and saw the person who was talking staring right at
her.
My heart suddenly skipped a beat, and sure enough, I heard that person say, “I suggest we change the designer. This time the impact was huge. I’m afraid the Mallins Group will
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Bernadette clenched her hands and was about to speak, but Declan spoke first: “Her design is fine, she’s fine too, just mind your own business, I’ll handle everything else.”
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Bernadette looked at his indifferent face, and her heart suddenly trembled.
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It was already evening when the design draft was finished. Declan had something to do and left early, so he left her the car keys and told her to drive his car back.
Bernadette came to the parking lot with the key, and she actually ran into Nolan.
Nolan glanced at the keys in her hand, and his eyes instantly turned deep.
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Turns out Jessica was right, Bernadette and Declan actually had something going on a long time ago, and he didn’t even believe it before!
His cold eyes swept over Bernadette’s face: “You divorced me just to be Declan’s lover? That’s really low, but too bad you picked the wrong guy.”
Maybe pain had an adjustment period too, and now Bernadette was actually numb to the hurt Nolan gave her.
She asked softly, “So did you make the right choice? Was power really that important to you?”
Nolan’s face suddenly darkened.
“Power, huh…
In the silence, a clear, sweet voice suddenly came.
Bernadette glanced over and saw Jessica open the car door, walk up and grab Nolan’s arm, then look at her smugly: “Does power matter or not? You’ll know when it’s on top of you.
She froze, but the phone in her bag started ringing.
As soon as the call connected, Nesta’s anxious voice came through.
“Bernadette, something’s wrong!”
You could hear a pin drop in the parking lot late at night, and the voice came through the mic loud and clear.
“The partners suddenly pulled all their funding and even wanted us to pay compensation! The employees also suddenly handed in their resignation letters. They’d rather break their contracts than stay!”
