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Isla’s eyes widened in disbelief as she stared at her
mother’s phone.
She wouldn’t mistake that voice!
The voice on the other end of the phone paused
slightly, then it turned colder still. “Isla, what are you doing with Mrs. Olsen’s phone?”
It was her!!
Isla felt as if she had seen a ghost.
No, it couldn’t be…
She glanced at her phone sharply, suddenly thinking of something. She asked, “Is this your phone number?”
Keira said, “What kind of question is that?”
That’s when it dawned on Isla!
She almost forgot that Keira’s nickname was also South, which was what Mrs. Olsen would sometimes
call her.
A tremendous sigh of relief escaped her lips, followed by boundless fury. “You’re such a sycophant! To get my
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mother’s favor, you even put her family name in your nickname. Are you worthy of being called that?”
Keira lowered her eyes.
The name was something she had chosen when she was in elementary school.
“South” indeed came from the surname of Mrs. Olsen,
aka Jodie South.
Keira was young at the time and chose it simply because she liked it, never thinking about whether it
would bother Mrs. Olsen.
She was the daughter of a mistress, yet she adopted the wife’s last name. Keira wondered what Mrs. Olsen
felt at the time. She would never know now.
She said indifferently, “Did you call just to say this?”
mask of decency and said viciously, “I just want to tell you, even if you’ve charmed Mr. Horton through old Mrs. Horton, you’re nothing more than a mistress and a toy! Mr. Horton is a
family!”
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said, “Then…
left a threat in the end. “You can’t just talk about feelings in a wealthy family. I have connections
after
she become one
pondered, a WhatsApp call came in again…
Olsen. She was calling “Dr. South” on WhatsApp.
her phone, picked it up, and
voice was changed by a device.
appearance of Finley made her understand that some things were better kept
unwelcome relatives.
for the disturbance. I’m Isla Olsen, the daughter of Jodie South. I am calling on the
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invite you to join their R&D team. My mother also wishes for the same. May I ask
Keira interrupted
say something more, but Keira said, “I only take
that, she hung
Monday.
old lady
stepped out of the hospital gate, contemplating. whether to take a taxi or
ahead, saying
in.”
don’t think I should do
two weren’t on such
me to drive you
iust tall her
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her, “I need a photo for proof.”
“Fine…”
and sat
raised his phone and took a selfie of the
them.
her two fingers
smile.
fluttered across Lewis’s face,
a moment.
Tom hesitated for a moment. He
before they left.
have missed it.
taking the photo, Keira sat up straight and started
silent until they reached the underground parking lot of the Horton
the exclusive elevator and left with
other hand, took the staff elevator up to
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the R&D department.
this time, the managerial staff of the R&D department were in a
of the R&D department announced a position change. “After the decision of the company’s top management, Jake, the
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