When I Was A Wallflower

Chapter 333 Disowned

Amelie was busy with work for the next few days.

Thankfully, Steven was back from his trip, relieving much of her burden.

She was busy with both Knowlit and her streams.

Know it was booming, and there was a lot of interest from research groups.

She had no choice but to hire a few professionals for quality control.

With more quality content being produced, the platform's business was soaring. Investors were all interested in it and tried to convince her to go public.

Not wanting to expand too fast, she rejected all of their suggestions.

Meanwhile, she made a few tweaks to the site to improve the user interface and increase the variety of content available.

In the blink of an eye, two weeks passed.

After all that work was over, she generously gave herself two days off from work.

She was thinking about how to make use of her vacation time.

Suddenly, her phone buzzed with a message.

'Come to the Walsh Building.'

It was an unknown number.

She stared at it for ages, but she could not think of just who could have sent her that message.

However, she was familiar with the Walsh Building.

That was where Toby's company, Walsh Residence, was located.

Did that mean Toby sent her the message?

She called Toby, wanting to confirm her guess.

He did not answer the phone.

Worried that it was urgent, she did not spend too much time pondering. She informed Steven before swiftly jumping into her car and driving over to the Walsh Building.

It was an hour's drive from Halport to Clouson City.

However, she had cut it down to thirty minutes.

As soon as she arrived at the building, she swung the car around in a beautiful arc to slide her car into a narrow parking lot.

her bag and get out of

she saw a car stop

of the doors to allow a middle-aged man to step out.

dressed in a fine

the car from the other

his somewhat long hair tied up in a ponytail to frame the gentle curves of

Toby.

Leo Alston?" the middle-aged man sternly asked Toby. Despite looking very similar to Toby, he looked extremely

who

was Toby's father,

to spot Amelie and her

usually smiling eyes were drooping and staring down at the ground

he barked out in a harsher tone of voice, "We have always worked well with the Alstons, yet today he suddenly canceled our collaboration, specifically your project. Don't tell me this has nothing to

and

pursed his lips and huffed

window. "You're such a useless failure! Now that the Alstons have canceled our contract, our necks are on the line! If things do not improve, the entire project will fail. Think carefully; the company will suffer a great loss once the few hundred million dollars project fails.

at Toby, he stomped into the office

raised his eyebrows in helplessness as he combed his long fingers through his hair.

are you here?" he asked in surprise with an awkward

so he was not the one who messaged

was certain of

her car and walked over to him. "My apologies. I did not mean

head down and gave her a smile that was somewhat bitter and somewhat embarrassed.

between you and Leo? How did things end up this way?"

knew that the two families had always worked together.

close the two families were, there was no reason for Leo to cancel their collaborative projects.

major happened.

profitable enough for him, so he gave up on it," he

stared at him.

some reason, she believed that was

haven't had lunch, have you? I'm hungry. Do you want to grab lunch together?"

her out of her

from his touch. "It's fine.

interact too much with him.

don't have lunch with me while you're here, people will be suspicious." He did not try to pull her along again. Instead, he looked down at his now-empty

Amelie speechless.

start to suspect Toby's relationship with her, it would be adding fuel to the fire.

save her twice, so she could not be cruel.

nodded. "Fine."

walked fast. Soon, he brought her to a huge

way, Mr. Walsh," a waitress greeted, walking up to

was evident he was a regular

Her eyes nearly spelled out "I love you"

when she spotted