Chapter 36 – Back Home to Marry Off Myself Novel

Loredana immediately apologized since it was the tea in her cup which was spilt onto others, “I’m really sorry, I didn’t do this on purpose.”

“If you’re not doing this purposely, then why is my skirt wet now?”

Loredana was stunned for a moment. She didn’t expect Sheryl to retort her so aggressively.

“I have already apologized. It was really an accident.” Loredana continued to explain patiently.

“What use is there in apologizing? If I slap you across your cheeks and apologize to you, does that mean that you won’t pursue this matter anymore?” Sheryl didn’t plan to let her off the hook just yet. She was making things hard for Loredana.

Loredana couldn’t help frowning. Wasn’t this woman being too forceful with her explanation?

How could she compare being slapped and being spilt with some tea? They were two totally different things.

“What do you want?” Loredana’ voice lowered a notch.

Since Sheryl wasn’t going to accept her apology, she had no choice but to seek another way to resolve this.

Sheryl poured herself a cup of water and looked at Loredana, “Since you’ve spilt water all over me, I will consider things to be even if you let me do it back on you.”

Loredana stared at the cup of steaming hot water in her palms incredulously. She couldn’t believe what she was being told. Sheryl was obviously trying to destroy her.

She would definitely suffer burns if that cup of hot water was poured onto her body.

Her cup of tea just now was only lukewarm at best since she was in a hurry to finish her drink. Even though some of the contents had spilt over to Sheryl’s skirt, it wouldn’t do her any harm at all. Her skirt was just slightly wet.

Loredana showed the palm of her hands and glared at Sheryl intently, “How is that considered even? If I am scalded by hot water, you have to take responsibility for me!”

Sheryl tried to analyse the consequence of pouring this cup of hot water onto Loredana.

The hot water was not steaming hot anymore after some time, so it would not burn Loredana severely. At most, she would only suffer from some minor blisters.

Since she aimed to gain Helen’s trust, Sheryl thought that she must at least put in some effort into this.

She let out a cold laugh, “That is if you can win the lawsuit against me after this!”

Before she could even finish her sentence, with a flick of her wrist, hot water was careening towards

Loredana.

Loredana was not that stupid to let herself get splashed with hot water without dodging, but her sudden movements seemed to affect the injury in her knees. Her body tilted to one side and she came crashing to the floor in the end. The hot water settled down on the floor and only wetted the side of her skirt. She was able to escape her fate of getting scalded.

“What is going on now?” Suddenly, a cold voice broke the silence. Some of the onlookers gathering around them immediately gave way.

Helen was standing by Cormac and for a moment she glanced at Loredana. However, she said nothing.

Nobody knew about the connection between Loredana and Cormac, but she knew well about it.

She couldn’t say anything on behalf of anyone because that was the only way she could maintain a distance from the core of the ordeal.

Sheryl peeked at Helen and was feeling very confident about her situation. Since she had Helen’s backing, there was nothing for her to fear. Furthermore, Loredana was just a newcomer to this company.

“She has purposely splashed some tea onto me, and she didn’t even apologize. I was mad, so I retaliated and poured some tea onto her.”

Cormac loomed over the embarrassing figure on the floor and there was an ambiguous expression on his face. He asked sternly, “Is that true?”

Loredana tried to clamber up from the floor, but due to the immense pain coming from her knees, every time she was about to get up, she stumbled back onto the ground once again. Just as she was going to fall over once more, a strong hand suddenly seized her arm. With a jerk, she was suddenly in a warm embrace.

Cormac was cupping her waist and he could feel the tender softness of her skin. It was as if the moment he exerted some strength into his palms, her backbone would break immediately.

However, with a strange feeling clouding his heart, he someone didn’t feel like letting go.

Loredana felt that she had just escaped a close call. She couldn’t help heaving a long and deep breath.

Why was she so unlucky lately?

She was pushed by Cormac last time and fell over, and this time she was falling once again.

“Can you stand?” Cormac asked.

Loredana tried to move her legs and replied, “I can.”

Be it the onlookers or Sheryl, they were all stunned by what they were seeing.

Based on their understanding of Cormac’s personality, he supposedly wouldn’t lend a hand in this kind of situation.

Everybody was throwing glances at Helen as if they were dying to know about the identity of this woman.

Loredana didn’t look especially outstanding; therefore they couldn’t understand why she could capture

Mr. Mendelsohn’s attention.

“If the matter here is resolved, everybody should disperse.” Helen wanted this ordeal to end as soon as possible. Cormac’s reaction to this incident was out of her expectation.

He had promised not to expose her true identity, yet he was hugging her in public without any reservation. What would the other employees think about this?

Helen glared at Sheryl vehemently, as if to blame this unexpected turn of events on her!

“Mr. Mendelsohn, it’s time for the meeting,” Helen whispered in his ears.

Cormac loosened his grip on Loredana and stood at the door to the tea room. His gaze was very cold.

He was scanning the messy tea room carefully and all of a sudden, he growled, “Abbott!”

Abbott immediately answered him.

“Show me the recordings of the surveillance camera.” He turned around after saying that. He also ordered Helen, “Delay the meeting for half an hour.”

When Sheryl heard that, she became oddly anxious. “Ms. White…”

Helen shot a piercing gaze at her, which successfully shut her up.

Then, Helen inched closer towards Cormac and reminded him, “Mr. Mendelsohn, the meeting has already started. Everyone is just waiting for you to begin the meeting. It would be bad to delay…”

Cormac continued to maintain an indifferent expression on her face. He was just staring at her without any emotion.

However, Helen couldn’t continue her argument anymore, “I will do as you say.”

However, Sheryl’s heart was racing rapidly. If the recordings of the surveillance camera were revealed, everyone would know that she was the perpetrator who caused Loredana to accidentally spill tea water onto her body. She would be exposed as the one who was instigating things.

“Ms. White…”

“Shut up!” As soon as Sheryl began to speak, she was immediately cut off by Helen. “We are all employees of this company, so we should try to get along with each other. She has just accidentally spilt some water on you, but you want to drag this further. Do you think what you are doing is the right thing?”

Sheryl opened her mouth but nothing came out of it. She was really afraid of getting exposed, but she didn’t dare to oppose Helen at the same time too since she had prestige in this company. Perhaps by remaining silent, she could save herself.

Loredana silently watched the exchange between Sheryl and Helen.

She suddenly felt very cold. Not literally, but her heart was so cold as if it had been shut away in an icy abyss.

She didn’t know that marrying Cormac would attract so many hateful women who wanted to target her.

It was originally just a simple deal on both ends, but it had brought on way too many troubles for her.

She couldn’t figure out why the others couldn’t let her carry on with her life in peace even knowing that her marriage with Cormac was just a business deal.

Sheryl was glaring hard at Loredana at that moment.

She could only pretend not to notice her.

Sheryl probably didn’t know that she had been made the scapegoat in this little fiasco.

After a short while, Abbot stopped in front of them and informed Sheryl, “You’re fired as of now.”

Sheryl was visibly stunned, “I didn’t do that on purpose.”

“You should know very well what you have done.” Abbot turned around and swept his gaze over the onlookers. The employees gathering around were craning their necks in anticipation of what Abbott was going to say.

“If you want to figure out what’s going on, go to the security room and watch the surveillance video.

This is our company, not the supermarket. We don’t need an employee who’s not cooperative. I hope everyone can keep this in mind.” After making his announcement, Abbott then tried to disperse the crowd, “Go back to your respective positions.”

Everyone solemnly went back to their seats, including Loredana. Cormac emerged from his office and headed towards the meeting room. At the sight of him, Sheryl immediately jogged towards him.

“Mr. Mendelsohn, I really didn’t do that on purpose.”

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