34 Nonsense

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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