Chapter 121 – Until You Say Sorry Novel

After a while, she saw the manager from the headquarters as well as the head of design of Miss L.ady. They were talking to a few clients.

She was not seeing things. Among the clients, two of them were Nevaeh and Eloise.

While they were talking, the manager of the headquarters and the head of design spotted Niamh. “Everyone, let me introduce you to this lady.”

The head of design looked at Niamh in admiration. Eloise and Nevaeh turned around at the same time. There was shock and surprise on their faces. However, disdain and contempt immediately replaced their looks of surprise. Meanwhile, there was a sinister smile in Nevaeh’s eyes.

As the star of the night, Niamh walked over magnanimously with a huge smile.

The head of design gestured to Niamh and introduced her, saying, “This is Miss Vera Quinn. She’s the shop owner of the first branch of Miss L.ady in Glendale. She’s also Miss L.ady’s…”

“I was wondering who it was. It’s just this woman,” Eloise said in a strange tone. She looked at Niamh with disdain. “Nevaeh, let’s go sit over there. I’m afraid I won’t have an appetite to eat if I continue to stay here and look at a woman like this.”

Niamh felt like someone had just stabbed her heart, but she still smiled.

She would never imagine the mother who she had fantasized about in her dreams for countless nights to be a woman who would feel disgusted from just looking at her.

How could this be the mother she longed to hug?

It seemed that Eloise was not bothered about Nevaeh admitting to working with Tanner to harm Niamh. On the contrary, she pampered her even more now.

Right, Nevaeh was her precious baby after all. How could she scold her?

“Mom, don’t say that,” Nevaeh smiled and said softly, “It mustn’t have been easy for Miss Quinn to join Miss L.ady. It’ll be bad if Miss Quinn loses her qualification after you say that. After all, I heard they have high requirements for the people who want to join the company.”

Nevaeh was saying that innocently. However, it was obvious she was trying to start something.

The manager and head of design looked at each other curiously while smiling. “Do Mrs. and Miss Montgomery have some misunderstandings about Vera?”

“No!” Eloise interrupted in agitation. Her tone also became colder. “I’m glad that Miss L.ady is finally launching in Glendale, but it’s such a waste for a heinous woman like her to join you and manage the shop. She’s touched so many delicate and exquisite jewelry of Miss L.ady. How filthy! You shouldn’t let a woman like her join your company! She’s not worthy!”

Nevaeh was ecstatic when she heard Eloise belittling Niamh. She also noticed a lot of people looking at Niamh with suspicion in their eyes.

This was good because she needed this kind of attention. Now, she was about to give Niamh a huge ‘gift’ to make her look bad!

“…” After she said that, the manager and head of design’s faces turned grim. They started looking at Niamh nervously.

However, Niamh only smiled and looked at Eloise with a weird glint in her eyes. “Mrs. Montgomery, you said I’m not worthy, so I wonder if the owner is your daughter, would she be worthy—”

“You thief! You stole my bracelet again!” Suddenly, a woman’s shriek interrupted Niamh.

Niamh vaguely felt as if she had heard this voice before.

She lifted her head in confusion. However, she did not expect the woman to reach out and grab her slender wrist. She pointed at the amethyst bracelet with tassels on her wrist.

“I was wondering who would be so gutsy to steal my bracelet at an event like this. You’re a recidivist! You’ve stolen once before at the Montgomeries’ birthday party and now you’re even wearing my bracelet so brazenly after stealing it! Back then, Mrs. Waldburg stood up for you, but now, I want to send you to the police!”

The woman’s ear-piercing shrieks penetrated everyone’s ears. The loudness of her voice attracted the attention of a lot of people around them.

Niamh lifted her head to look at this overbearing face. Immediately, the scene of her being falsely accused and bearing the burden of being called a thief appeared in her head as clear as day.

After she got news of her illness that day, she needed to go to Kendrick’s mother’s birthday party at Waldburg Manor as per Kendrick’s order.

However, the moment she walked in, this woman in front of her ran into her. This woman did not apologize but instead accused Niamh of running into her. She even accused Niamh of stealing her bracelet.

In the end, Nevaeh helped Niamh out of ‘kindness’. However, during the commotion, she placed a bracelet into Niamh’s pocket. Niamh was weak back then, so she got framed as the person who stole the bracelet and was berated horribly after trying to prove her innocence.

The most humiliating part was after Felipe sent her the evidence that would prove her innocence, it was overtly destroyed by Kendrick. He loved Nevaeh, so he would indulge Nevaeh in everything she did with no limits.

Niamh had not forgotten about it. Back then, this woman called her a beggar while Nevaeh had addressed this woman as Mrs. Langford intimately.

“What are you looking at? Take off my bracelet now!” Mrs. Langford was dressed extravagantly. She had a death grip on Niamh’s wrist as she warned furiously.

Niamh stopped recalling what happened before and glanced at the woman’s hand with her beautiful eyes. “Let go of your hand.”

Her tone was cold. Despite the light smile on her face, there was a powerful aura around her.

The woman was shocked by the overbearing aura. She hesitated for a while as her grip on Niamh’s hand loosened slightly. However, when she realized Niamh was talking to her with this attitude, she tightened her grip on Niamh’s wrist again.

“Pah! Are you threatening me?” The woman was boorish. “Just look at yourself. How dare you steal from me in an event like this?” she said arrogantly as she lifted her pejorative gaze to look Niamh up and down.

“Tsk tsk, it seems that you’ve stolen a lot of things during this period. If not, how would you have the money to dress up like this? Or perhaps you’ve gotten yourself a stupid rich man? If that’s the case, why would you go as far as stealing at a dinner party?!”

“Madam, have you perhaps misunderstood something? Why would Vera steal your bracelet? Please let go of her now!” The manager approached them and started breaking them up.

The head of design came to Niamh’s side hurriedly as well. She glared at the woman in agitation. “Madam, how can you falsely accuse someone with no proof? You’re saying that Vera stole your bracelet and even claiming that she stole your amethyst bracelet? Do you know that this bracelet—”

“Where did you come from? How dare you accuse me of accusing her?” The woman scoffed and interrupted, saying, “Miss Delgado, you saw this woman stealing my bracelet back then with your own two eyes.”

After she said that, she looked in another direction. Niamh noticed that Kendrick’s mother was here as well. At this moment, the woman said, “Mrs. Waldburg, you were there as well. You even pleaded for leniency on behalf of her. You said she’s your maid, so that’s why I let her off the hook. You have to be my witness!”

After she heard this, Niamh finally knew that Kendrick’s mother had told this woman she was their maid when she whispered in her ear back then. That was why the woman stopped pursuing this matter.

Heh!

Maid!

How ridiculous!

Aside from Old Master Waldburg, none of the other Waldburgs had ever treated her as she was one of them.

She was just a maid in the Waldburgs’ eyes!

No, she was even more lowly than a maid!

“Vera Quinn was the Waldburgs’ maid?”

“She used to be a maid but she’s able to get to where she is now. I’m sure she stole a lot from her master.”

“A person like her even managed to join Miss L.ady. I have to reconsider whether I want to buy from them anymore.”

At this moment, harsh words of criticism started sounding out from all around her. Nevaeh was grinning as she said something in Eloise’s ear.

After a while, Nevaeh walked over. She looked at Niamh and sighed. “Miss Quinn, I didn’t expect you to be as careless as Niamh despite you two looking exactly the same!”

Nevaeh mocked her with contempt in her eyes. “Mrs. Langford, you’re right. There was someone who stole your bracelet in front of everyone in Waldburg Manor back then. However, it’s not this woman you’re holding onto right now. They just look the same.”

“What? It’s not her? I remember her face so clearly!” the woman pointed at Niamh’s face and said definitively.

“Mrs. Langford, it’s not her.” Kendrick’s mother walked over as well. She was looking down on Niamh too. “Vera, I didn’t expect that as the shop owner of Miss L.ady that you would go as far as to steal a client’s bracelet. Are you sick in the head?”

“She’s not just light-fingered, but she even has the habit of stealing other people’s fiancé!” Eloise added. She was looking at Niamh with despise and contempt.

The atmosphere of the dinner party changed with everyone looking at Niamh with suspicion and disdain.

Mrs. Langford grabbed Niamh’s wrist even tighter now that she was feeling more confident. “So, even though you’re two different people, you still stole my bracelet! Hmph, you shameless thief! I’m taking you to the police station now!”

She screeched rudely. At the same time, she started pulling Niamh with brute force.

The manager and the head of design could not watch this any longer. They were about to help Niamh, but before they could do anything, they saw Niamh standing her ground. Not only was she not budging, but she also got out of the woman’s grip after pulling with all of her might.

The woman lost her footing and stumbled backward. Coincidentally, she stepped on Nevaeh’s ankle.

Nevaeh wailed in pain and pushed the woman away furiously.

When the woman saw this, she targeted Niamh again. “You b*tch…”

“If you dare you to cause trouble for me again, I promise that when the police get here, they won’t be arresting me but you instead,” Niamh said, her melodic voice interrupting the woman’s sentence.

Despite being faced with all kinds of criticizing gazes, Niamh was still composed and calm.

She stood with her head held high. Her beautiful twinkling eyes looked frigid and strict on her charming face. At this moment, she looked like a queen.

“You said that I stole your bracelet? This bracelet?” Niamh lifted her left hand, the amethyst bracelet shining dreamily under the light, looking very pretty.

Mrs. Langford gritted her teeth angrily. “You stole it! My amethyst bracelet is custom-made from Miss L.ady’s limited edition collection! I asked someone to bring it back for me from overseas. I’m the only one with this bracelet in Glendale! I deliberately wore it today for my friends to admire!”

As she said that, a pleased smile appeared on her face. She said it was for her friends to admire, but in fact, she just wanted to show off.

This amethyst bracelet was indeed special, and it looked lovely. Plenty of socialites and wealthy women in the upper-class would want their hands on it, but unfortunately, they could not.

“No wonder Miss Quinn wanted to steal it. It’s a custom-made limited edition bracelet, after all,” Nevaeh said. She was trying to add fuel to the fire.

“Do you guys still want to let a person like her become a member of your brand?” Eloise peered at Niamh and jeered, “If you continue to let a woman like her become the shop owner, all the gorgeous jewelry will be tarnished!”

“Right, you should remove her name immediately. If not, I won’t go to your shop no matter how gorgeous your jewelry is!” Kendrick’s mother joined in opposition to the same adversary. She started to boycott Niamh along with Nevaeh and Eloise.

When Mrs. Langford saw so many people siding with her, she felt loftier. “What do you have to say now? Give me back my bracelet now and go to the police station with me!”

After the manager and head of design heard this, they looked at each other. Their faces fell as they then said coldly, “Madam, you’re right. This bracelet is a limited edition, but I guess you have no idea that we never sold this bracelet to the public.

“This bracelet was designed by the chief designer of Miss L.ady, Vera. She designed this bracelet as a birthday present to herself. There’s only one of this in the entire world and now it’s on her wrist. So, pray tell, why would she steal her own bracelet?”

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