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.

and get out of the

moment, she saw a car stop right

out and opened one of the doors to allow a middle-aged

was dressed in a fine suit.

another man stepped out of the car from the other side.

hair tied up in a ponytail to frame the gentle curves

Toby.

the middle-aged man sternly asked Toby. Despite looking very similar to Toby, he looked

instantly knew who he was.

Toby's father,

and her

His usually smiling eyes were drooping and staring down at the ground while his shoulders were hunched over.

as 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 do

and his eyes looked

pursed his lips and huffed in silent agreement.

are on the line! If things do not improve, the entire project will fail. Think carefully; the company will suffer a

glance at Toby, he stomped into the office

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

with an awkward look on his

was not the

certain of

out of her car and walked over to him. "My apologies. I did not mean to overhear your conversation."

a smile that was somewhat bitter and

you and Leo? How did things end up

families had

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

major happened.

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

at

was not the

lunch, have you? I'm hungry. Do you want to grab lunch together?" he asked, pulling

of her

away from his touch.

did not want to interact too much with

the Walsh Building, and quite a few people know we're dating. If you don't have lunch with me while you're here, people will be suspicious." He did not try to pull her along again.

rendered Amelie speechless.

had just expressed his dissatisfaction with Toby. If people start to suspect Toby's relationship with her, it would be adding fuel to the fire.

save her twice, so she could not be

nodded. "Fine."

fast. Soon, he brought her to a huge and lavishly decorated restaurant.

greeted, walking up to them. "Your usual?"

evident he was a regular here.

Her eyes nearly spelled out "I love you" at him.

when she spotted