Bye, My Ex-husband

Chapter 70: A Boy Toy 

At the office, Janessa assigned the daily tasks to her group members and was about to go upstairs to sort out the day's work when she heard Sally's voice.

"Janessa, you are so lucky.Only recently divorced and already you've got a man chasing after you.And one so much younger than Mr.Lu."

Sally walked towards her with a disdainful look on her face, her nose pointed upward.

Janessa was sick of this.

This woman had been making trouble for her since the very moment she started working here.

She made a fuss over even the littlest things.

If she hadn't said anything, maybe the other employees wouldn't have noticed.

But now, the other seemed to be straining their ears to listen closer.

Janessa scoffed, then picked up the folder on the table.

She made a point of ignoring Sally.

At first, Sally thought that Janessa would contradict her.

She already knew exactly what she was going to say back to her.

But she hadn't expected that Janessa wouldn't react at all.

Now she was furious.

She couldn't say anything if Janessa wasn't acknowledging her.

However, not willing to surrender, Sally stopped Janessa from walking away.

"Don't go yet.Tell me, what does that handsome man do for a living? You can tell me and I can give you some advice."

"It's none of your business, Sally.Why don't you focus on your job instead of mindless office gossip?" Janessa said.

She glanced coldly at the onlookers around them.

They quickly looked away and threw themselves back into their work.Janessa looked back at Sally.She seemed to shrink away from her.

Sally took a deep breath.

Janessa already had a new man, even after spending all this time trying to seduce Rayan.

Even if Gracie could let it go, she couldn't.

What was more, Janessa had won Gordon's heart, so Sally couldn't let her go.

Sally straightened up and met Janessa’s eye as she asked, "Is this your new boy toy? It must be, otherwise why wouldn't you introduce him to us? This might be personal, but is it wrong for me to care about my colleagues? Besides, we wouldn't want you doing anything that might disgrace the Lu Group."

Sally sneered.

She always confounded the right with the wrong, which was something that ordinary people couldn't do.

Janessa didn't say anything.

Sally looked at her with a smug smile.

"We're not here to talk about personal matters during work hours.Now get back to your job."

Just then, Linda walked in.

She gritted her teeth at the sight of her cousin badgering their group leader.

Again.

Sally had done loads of stupid things like this through the years.

And to make sure it didn't get back to their family, Linda helped her out a lot.

However, Sally was now out of control.

If she went on like this, she would ruin Linda's career.

Linda glared at her cousin and watched her slowly return to her desk.

Although Sally wasn't finished with Janessa, she didn't dare to disobey Linda's order.

Janessa didn't have time to watch this little exchange.

She turned around to leave, but was stopped by Linda.

"Janessa, please come with me.I have something to tell you."

With these words, Linda turned around and went straight into her office, leaving no time for Janessa to react.

Deciding she needed to thank Linda for her help, she followed her into the office.

She didn’t expect that Linda would have such big news for her.

"The meeting with the Gu Group later is suspended.They found a problem in the plan and said this issue must be resolved immediately.Otherwise, they will pull out of the project altogether."

Janessa was shocked.

She had been communicating the Gu Group directly.

Why didn't she know about this? Why was Linda informed of it before her? Linda had been a vital part of the Lu Group for many years and she was good at gauging people.

Knowing that Janessa was wondering why the people of the Gu Group didn't contact her directly, Linda explained, "They called you this morning, but you didn't answer the phone.It was an emergency, so they found my phone number.I have worked with them before."

Janessa nodded.

"I'll take care of it." © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

Janessa went to Rayan's office on the top floor with the documents.

Corbin passed by her and seeing the depressed expression on Janessa's face, he said, "Don't be discouraged.Good things will come."

"Well, thank you."

Janessa didn't want to say anything more.

She took her seat and got right to work.Seeing that she didn't need any help, Corbin went back to his own work.

Janessa was not in the mood to work at all.

She felt dizzy.

She kept thinking about the expression on Alana's face when she stood at the door that morning.

They had never had something like this come between them before.

Eric had brought her to work that morning.

Half the office had seen them.

Perhaps she should have told Eric about Alana’s true feelings.

She picked up her phone and tried to call Eric, but then stopped.

She didn’t really know how to start.

She put down the phone silently and stared at the screen in a daze.

Corbin hurried into the office and handed her a document.

He was still on the phone and didn't tell Janessa what it was.

She opened it and saw the new brief for the plan.

Hanging up the phone, Corbin said, "I was just sorting out your inbox and found this.It should be helpful.It’s from Mr.Rayan.You can take a look at it first."

Janessa looked at Corbin gratefully.

She had completely forgotten that she had important work to do.

Although Alana's was important to her, she had more serious work issues to deal with.

With this document at hand, Janessa began to go over it.

The morning passed quickly.

She came up with a few solutions, but there were still some minor flaws in the plan that needed to be improved.

Although what Rayan had concluded in the brief was a little unrealistic, he had offered new ideas which were more conducive to the plan.

Janessa skipped lunch and ended up falling asleep at her desk.

Thanks to her long night, she ended up sleeping for two whole hours.

Even when it was time for her to go back to work in the afternoon, she still didn't wake up.