Let Me Stay The Night

Chapter 29

Chapter 29 Shunning Christina

Christina left work in a cheerful mood and broke the news to Evelyn that her design had been selected by the company.

Evelyn was overjoyed, and she hurried into the kitchen to prepare a few more dishes to celebrate.

Christina went into her bedroom, kicked off her slippers, and sprawled on the bed to scroll through her phone when she received an international call.

A hypnotic male voice said, “Have you gotten off work?”

Christina stilled for a moment before returning. “Nathaniel?”

The hoarseness in his voice lent credence to how busy he had been for the past few days, but the fact that she didn’t recognize his voice darkened his mood.

He gave a low hum, and both of them fell silent. “Did anyone deliberately approach you in my absence?”

Christina’s brows drew together as she did not understand what he was implying.

“No,” she answered honestly.

Nathaniel said unemotionally. “Okay, I’m hanging up now.”

Before he disconnected, she heard someone in the background shouting about a meeting starting, as if he had carved out time from his hectic schedule to give her a call before resuming work.

Christina stared at the unfamiliar number and hesitated for a moment before saving it to her contacts.

Evelyn called her out for dinner a while later.

After a good night’s rest, Christina changed into a petite suit and went to work the next morning-

She felt eyes boring into her with contempt the moment she walked into the office as if she was everyone’s common enemy.

Why the drastic change after one night?

Christina felt like an alien in everyone’s eyes, a feeling that left a sour taste in her mouth.

clicked on the company’s forum to figure out the problem

headlines.

Corporation intern hitched a ride in the director’s Mercedes

reputation of Radiant Corporation by sleeping

to be

of proportion, and practically every employee had shared the

only spin a narration about her getting into the director’s car, but also on her dubious relationship with Yosef,

of designers, and the director was the ultimate prize. It was a crime for Christina to sink her

chill seeped into her bones as she finished reading the article. Even her

painted me as a woman who sleeps her way to the top

a ridiculous joke!

inadvertently revealing

her

this matter

later, the rumors didn’t peter out as Christina had thought but were exacerbated instead,

using

but was also an insult to the other

at the office in the

her small desk.

a frenzy, and the security guards immediately informed the CEO and vice

design department a few minutes later to find a small

letter today, it will be an insult to the rest of the

we leave!”

what the relationship between Nathaniel and Christina was. Even so, he had seen how differently Nathaniel treated her the other day.

this girl was photographed entering his car…

a germaphobe who will nitpick every time someone gets into his car, even us,

suggests…

this matter, but

into an awkward expression. “Why

most polite way out for

pointless for Christina to resist and embarrass herself further now that he had spoken

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