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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?”
tore off her 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 married man! I’m different though. I’ll marry Jake and become a legitimate daughter-in-law of the
family!”
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said, “Then… congratulations?”
in the end. “You can’t just talk about feelings in a wealthy family. I
mouth twitched after
become one of
pondered, a WhatsApp call came in again…
from Mrs. Olsen. She was calling “Dr. South”
her phone, picked it up, and said casually, “Hello.”
was changed by a
made her understand that some things were better
unwelcome relatives.
Dr. South, sorry for the disturbance. I’m Isla Olsen, the daughter
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to invite you to join their R&D team. My mother
Keira interrupted her
Keira said, “I only take responsibility for companies under Mrs.
she
Monday.
with the old lady and dutifully
hospital gate, contemplating. whether to take a taxi or the subway, a
straight ahead,
in.”
think I should do that.”
on such good terms yet.
said, “Grandma asked me to drive you to
her you did that”
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her, “I need
“Fine…”
the back door and
his phone and took a selfie of the
them.
fingers raised and a sweet
smile.
a few strands of hair fluttered across Lewis’s face, leaving
a moment.
passenger seat, Tom hesitated for a moment. He
before they left.
must have missed it.
up straight and started busying herself on
silent until they reached the underground parking lot of the Horton Group.
took the exclusive elevator and
the other hand, took the staff
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the R&D department.
this time, the managerial staff of the R&D department
department announced a position change. “After the decision of the company’s top management, Jake, the team leader, is promoted to the vice president, who will
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