The following week, Natalie took precautions to avoid running into Ike, but Ike kept on hinting at her from time to time.

One morning, she went to the convenience store downstairs to buy some coffee.

As she waited in line, two women glanced at her and started whispering to each other. “Isn’t that the woman from the design department who hooks up with Ike?”

“Yeah, I think so!”

Natalie overheard their loud whispering and frowned deeply. “What are you two talking about?”

The two women were shocked by her sudden confrontation. They quickly shook their heads and smiled embarrassedly. “Nothing, nothing. We mistook you for someone else, that’s all.”

But that wasn’t the last Natalie heard of this. She soon realized that someone from the design department must have spread unpleasant rumors about her and Ike.

And those rumors spread like wildfire. Some colleagues who used to be nice to Natalie even started to keep their distance from her.

Previously, Natalie was viewed as a well-mannered, kind young woman in the design department.

But now that someone had spoken ill of Natalie behind her back, people began to view her in a different light.

It was Pamela who had first shown hostility towards her.

Ever since Ike announced that he would select Natalie’s design, Pamela had been hostile to Natalie to her face.

that Pamela was the one started

found

the company. That was where she

took a bottle of soda. On her way out,

whispered to the colleague next to her, “I heard Quinn went to a

she likes him though. He’s such a jerk.” The colleague shook her head and sighed. She had thought that Natalie was a beautiful girl and that she was way out of

do anything to get promoted, am I right? I wouldn’t be surprised if she used

spoke, she sipped from her water calmly, as though

to her when she was in college?

Apparently, Natalie had come

taken aback when Natalie suddenly spoke. She

back and strode over to Pamela. She picked up the phone that was lying on

so sorry. The recorder was turned on this whole time. Oh, I know! Let’s listen to what you

of horror flashed on Pamela’s

phone

the volume of her phone so that everyone in

be heard loud and clear. It also sounded harsh and mean. All eyes were on her

vividly. How

had made

that Natalie would dare

colleague! This is an invasion of my privacy!” She was so anxious that her voice turned shrill. As she berated Natalie,

at Pamela sharply, she said, “You defamed me first. I’m going to call

to the director’s office. She knocked on the door politely and announced, “Mr.

Natalie had come around

in. What’s up?” he asked,

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