Anna tapped a key on the keyboard of her laptop. Then, the projector screen lit up and seemed to be going to play a video.
“Hey, what are you doing?” Allie asked impatiently. “Shh, look what it is.”
The image on the projector was that hotel room from last night. Scott frowned just as he glanced at it. He then turned away and stopped looking at the screen.
Allie’s face was growing pale. She had just looked at it for a few seconds when she jerked up and moved forward. She quickly closed the computer, then fumbled and unplugged all the power
The picture on the projector disappeared. Allie trembled as she said, “Anna, shame on you! You put surveillance in my room!”
Anna looked calm and said slowly, “Allie, you say you’re Scott’s fiancée. But if the press and Scott’s fans see this, you know what they’ll say about you.”
Allie was so scared that her face turned pale. She shouted, “Don’t you dare! I’m warning you, Anna! If you dare to make the video public, dad will be furious.”
Anna stared at her indifferently and said, “Oh, you don’t have to worry about that. You only
None of them said anything. Allie was holding onto the table tightly and shaking as if she was going to fall down in the next moment.
She was so angry and ashamed that she wanted to kill Anna.
Allie thought to herself, Anna, you b***h! How dare you film it and show them to Scott! Not only did you threaten me, but you got in the way of me getting back to Scott. God knows this is my last chance!
“Tell me, will you read it or not?” Allie gritted her teeth in silence for a long time before answering, “Yes, I will.”
Anna nodded and put her flash drive into her bag. Before leaving the conference room, she said calmly, “By the way. Allie, there’s one more thing you need to do. Tell Wind Media and those people you hired on the Internet to delete the posts. Otherwise, you know what I’ll do to you.”
Allie stood in the doorway of the conference room with her back to Anna. She was extremely angry, so she clenched her teeth very hard. After a long time, she squeezed a few words through her gritted teeth, “OK, got it.”
But, Anna, I‘ll get back at you, Allie thought to herself.
The press conference ended well in the afternoon. Most of the netizens were so sympathetic to Allie that they were willing to take her word for it. She did what Anna wanted and explained that both she and Anna were just Scott’s sisters. She thus proved that all the rumors were nonsense.
The reporters left in disappointment. They thought that the incident was a misunderstanding and not at all worthy of gossip
Scott handed Anna a glass of water and asked, “I really didn’t expect this to have anything to do with her, Anna. Why would she do that?”
Anna looked at him and said, “Scott, do you really have no idea? She doesn’t like me because she likes you. You only talk to me in the family, so of course she hates me.”
Scott asked innocently, “She likes me? Gosh, I really didn’t know that at all.” “Oh, well. Besides, that toyboy of hers kinda looks like you.” Anna said.
She thought, if Allie hadn‘t gone too far, I wouldn‘t have threatened her with this video. I knew that if there was a grudge between her and me, we would always be enemies. I didn‘t originally want to do this, but since she did this to me. I had to treat her the same way. It seems that she and I will always hate each other.
Shortly after the press conference, Wind Media released a statement. They said they would apologize to Scott and the two people involved and compensate them. Also, they said they had fired both the reporter and the editor who published the story
The matter was completely settled by the time Wayne returned from his trip.
“I did a good job, didn’t I?” Anna asked as they were having a meal. She smiled and looked as if she wanted Wayne to praise her.
Wayne looked at her and praised, “Well done.”
“Thank you. So, I didn’t give you or the whole company any bad publicity, did I?” Anna asked deliberately
Wayne did not answer her question. Then, he took out a small white square box from his pocket and placed it in front of Anna. He said, “Surprise! This is for you, Anna.”
Anna froze and her mind immediately became confused. She then said incoherently, “Oh, no! Wayne, I’m… I’m actually not ready yet. Just put it away for now, okay?”
I still have a lot of secrets that I haven‘t told him, and I still have puzzles to be solved. So, / can‘t marry him now. Anna thought to herself.
Wayne gave her a quizzical look and asked, “What? What are you talking about?”
He then opened the box and said, “I bought them in Italy. I thought they would suit you, and I wanted to gave them to you as a gift.”
Anna found that there was a pair of pearl earrings in the box. The pearls were extremely beautiful, glowing with a glistening white luster.
Anna froze and said awkwardly, “Oh! They are… earrings!”
So, they are earrings! Gosh, he scared the hell out of me. Why did he put them in this kind of box? It‘s very misleading. Anna thought to herself.
“What do you think they are?” Wayne asked suspiciously, as if he hadn’t figured out what Anna was thinking
Anna laughed, trying to make herself look less embarrassed. She said, “Oh! They’re beautiful. Thank you, I like them.”
Wayne frowned and asked, “But, you seem a little disappointed. If you don’t like them, you can tell me. You don’t have to pretend to be happy, honey.”
Immediately, Anna‘s eyes widened and she exclaimed, “Hey, I really like them. I’m not disappointed at all.”
The two kids sitting across from them both froze and looked up at them. “What’s wrong?” Wayne asked as he was still puzzled.
“Nothing. Excuse me, I’m going to go to the bathroom.” Anna then left the table.
Watching Anna leave, Tammy let out a meaningful sigh. She looked at Wayne, and then said with disappointment, “Mr. Wright, when a woman sees a box like that, she knows there‘s something inside. Do you know what that is?”
“No. What is it?” Wayne asked. “Matthew, do you know?” Tammy turned back to Matthew and asked.
Matthew immediately hung his head and began to draw on his drawing board. He first drew a circle, then a glowing diamond. He wrote, “Dad, you’re so stupid.”
“Mr. Wright, my mom would be happy if you gave her earrings. But, you make her think you’re giving a ring, and you gave her an expectation. When she saw that it was actually earrings inside, she was a little disappointed. Why don’t you understand such a simple thing? Even I get it. It seems that you knew little about women” Tammy said.
Wayne was a little frustrated after realizing he was being laughed at by two kids. He looked at the box on the table, and rubbed his nose as he felt embarrassed.
Treally didn‘t know anything about it! I just wanted to give her a nice pair of earrings. Wayne thought to himself
He looked in the direction of the bathroom, and then at the ring on the drawing board. He seemed to think of something and then smiled.
He thought, I was going to take things slow with Anna. But if she‘s looking forward to marrying me, then I can propose to her
Anna washed her face. She looked into the bathroom mirror and noticed that she looked young despite not wearing makeup. However, her eyes looked sad, as if she had been through a lot.
She noticed this every time she looked at herself in the mirror.
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