Right Person, Wrong Time

Chapter 170 Do Your Best

Joanna tried her best to calm herself and said in a nonchalant tone, “That’s nothing. President Gardner is merely protecting her because the rumors are rife now. After all, if anything happens to Nicole, the Gardner Corporation won’t be able to answer to F&M Apparel.”

Seeing how Joanna was acting like she didn’t care, Queenie couldn’t help but laugh out loud. “Director Schmidt, you’re still trying to lie to yourself and others at this point, huh? I might be Colton’s fiancée in name, and you know it as well that he doesn’t care about me, but he’s not the same toward Nicole.”

In order to pull Joanna to her side, Queenie even said self-deprecating things. Before Nicole was here, Queenie hadn’t bothered herself with Joanna because Colton merely treated her as a subordinate.

But with Nicole’s appearance, a sense of danger struck Queenie as Colton had never allowed a woman into his house before!

Queenie’s words dimmed the light in Joanna’s eyes, and she gazed into the distance; even Queenie could read her feelings, so how could Colton not know about it?

been in the company for seven years, which is even longer

for almost ten years. In the beginning, she was heartbroken when Queenie appeared, but with time, she saw that Colton wasn’t the least interested in Queenie, which was a relief to

to be the leader of the domestic fashion industry, Colton would then think highly of her.

more than welcome if

swayed by her, Queenie frowned unwittingly. She came here to persuade Joanna to stand on her side so that they could drive Nicole out

on her face, Queenie said, “Now is the best chance. Nicole is tangled in this matter, and at least, she can’t make

that the task of designing Wendy’s birthday dress would fall into Nicole’s

me, of course I’ll do my best to

leave. After she left, only then was there a change in Joanna’s