Contract Marriage: Abusive Love with Mr.CEO-Chapter 438 - 232: Your Scent

Thinking that she came home to retrieve the documents for an imminent meeting, Rebecca Quentin immediately forgot the thoughts in her mind, hurriedly paid the fare, got out of the car, and rushed into the company.

By the time Rebecca Quentin reached her office floor, it was already empty, and she quickly dashed toward the meeting room...

All her colleagues were already sitting in the meeting room waiting to start, but because the meeting materials had not yet arrived, everyone was sitting and waiting.

When Rebecca Quentin arrived in the meeting room, her usually friendly colleagues were now frowning at her, seemingly all worried for her. After all, she was more than ten minutes late for such an important meeting. More importantly, Manager Smith was usually so strict with himself, so even though he was nice to her, she would inevitably be scolded by him today.

As she walked towards Manager Smith, Rebecca Quentin felt very apologetic.

Since joining "QCS", she had never made any mistakes. Being late for such an important meeting today made her feel very guilty.

However, while everyone was sweating nervously for Rebecca Quentin, Manager Smith simply smiled as he took the documents from her hand, not saying a word, and directly announced the start of the meeting...

At that moment, everyone exchanged glances, quite surprised.

For the first time in days, tonight was the only night Rebecca Quentin did not stay at the company to continue learning design. She returned early to her apartment.

Even though today wasn’t very busy, she felt more exhausted than usual...

Back in her room, she lay down on her bed without even taking a shower.

Many images began to flash through her mind...

Besides the scene she saw this morning, there were also the news reports she saw when she turned on the TV a few days ago.

She never expected that he would hold the child’s one-year-old birthday banquet so grandly.

She always thought that no matter how much he loved the child, he might never announce Andrew’s identity publicly in his lifetime, especially since his and her relationship had already...

But with such a grand banquet and so much media attending, he declared to the world the existence of his heir...

She knew he loved the child, she always knew...

Just very unexpectedly, he wasn’t at all influenced by her when it came to the child.

A feeling, indescribable, surged in her heart, and as she turned to her side, the pampering words belonging to him echoed suddenly in her mind.

"Darling, we’ve come so far; do you really want to give up like this?"

"Becca, let’s live a good life together, shall we?"

"It’s said that crystal balls have a kind of magic that can foretell the future, darling, tell me, does the future you see in the crystal ball look like the one I see?"

His deep, husky voice kept echoing in her ears, and she shook her head hard to drive it away, but the words only became clearer in her mind.

Suddenly, a sourness flooded her chest, and she gently bit her lips, struggling to swallow the discomfort...

This past half year, she occasionally thought about how great it would be if... if she hadn’t made that choice at the start!

But every time such thoughts arose, her father’s loving figure would flash in her mind.

She knew she could never have such thoughts, never...

He was the one who raised her, educated her into adulthood, and his kindness of nurturing her was something she could never ignore...

She truly hated the heavens, why they had to torment her like this?

If only the whole thing could turn out to be a misunderstanding, how great it would be...

The next day.

Having completely severed herself from yesterday’s emotions, Rebecca Quentin went to work full of vigor.

However, today, when she greeted her colleagues as usual, she was inexplicably met with indifference.

Since joining the company, she had always had a good relationship with her colleagues, and she didn’t understand how it could turn out like this suddenly...

Puzzled, Rebecca Quentin returned to her seat and exchanged a glance with Nicolette Holmes, who sat not far from her.

Nicolette Holmes wore a troubled expression, but slowly walked over to Rebecca Quentin’s side all the same.

Rebecca Quentin asked in confusion, "What happened? Why is everyone..."

Nicolette Holmes frowned at Rebecca Quentin, then whispered, "Becca, I’m your closest colleague at ’QCS’. Tell me honestly, do you have connections?"

"What?" Rebecca Quentin was shocked, "Connections?"

Nicolette Holmes nodded vigorously, "Yes... Do you know? Yesterday, when you were late and didn’t get reprimanded by Manager Smith, it caused a huge reaction in the company. Everyone says Manager Smith usually hates nothing more than latecomers, but he’s never said a word or taken action against you. Finally, a colleague asked Manager Smith indignantly about yesterday, and unexpectedly, Manager Smith let slip that no one can afford to offend you. Because of those words, now the company is abuzz with rumors that you have powerful connections and might be under the protection of our behind-the-scenes BOSS..."