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After a long while, she said sullenly, “I can help, but not for free.
You have to pay me.”
Preferably, enough to win back the 800 thousand dollars she
lost the other day!
Madeleine put her hands together, her smile brilliant.
“Deal!”
Rebecca narrowed her eyes slightly, leaning back on the sofa
and watching the vibrant Madeleine for a moment.
In the past, she never would have imagined she could be calmly
having afternoon tea with this woman.
A thought flashed through her mind, and she suddenly blurted
out, “Madeleine, what’s your secret to making a man so
obsessed with you? Got any tips?”
The scent of gossip was suddenly in the air!
Madeleine leaned in excitedly, “You’re trying to land a guy?”
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Madeleine’s one sentence almost made the great Ms. Whitman
get heated.
“What nonsense are you talking about? Do I look like someone
who’s short on men?”
Madeleine snickered.
How is that the same? It doesn’t matter how many men are
around you if you don’t like any of them.
Rebecca wanted to say more, but seeing Madeleine’s sly grin,
she immediately felt it was a bad idea.
She might just turn around and tell Roderick, and then the two
of them would gossip about me behind my back.
No, no, I can’t trust her.
Rebecca finished her coffee and stood up. “If there’s nothing
else, I’m leaving. You should get back to work too.”
“Don’t be in such a hurry. I haven’t properly thanked you yet for the thing with Dannie.”
“No need to thank me.”
After saying that, she turned back. “Pay for the coffee.”
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Madeleine was speechless.
The richer they are, the stingier they get. She won’t even part
with the money for a cup of coffee.
After Rebecca returned to her office, she couldn’t get
Madeleine’s words out of her head for a long time.
“Chase a man?
Pfft, as if.”
“Do I need to chase a man?”
She leaned back in her chair huffily, rocking back and forth.
Two minutes later, Ms. Whitman took out her phone and found
a contact saved as: Frankenstein.
She cleared her throat twice and mimicked Madeleine’s tone
from earlier:
“Professor Shaw~ Are you busy? Wanna grab dinner later?”
After sending it, she listened to the voice message, got goosebumps all over, and quickly unsent it, her ears turning
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bright red.
What the hell!
After a week of work, Madeleine finally realized she was just an errand girl.
She was very frustrated, and was sulking when she went to
Roderick’s office for lunch.
“What’s wrong?
Not hungry?”
Madeleine’s cheeks were stuffed with food, and she felt a little
embarrassed to chew after hearing that.
She was just in a bad mood, but it hadn’t affected her appetite…
Shaking her head, Madeleine put down her fork after finishing
her meal and said:
“Ricki, you don’t suspect me anymore, do you?”
“Suspect?
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What.”
“The corporate spy. Didn’t you tell Rebecca last time that you
were investigating a corporate spy?”
Roderick smiled, surprised she was still thinking about it.
“Yeah, I don’t suspect you.”
As he spoke, he gently wiped the grease from the corner of her
lips with a napkin.
Madeleine: “So you don’t believe in my abilities?
Let me tell you, even though I have eight years of experience, I have the memory of an eighteen–year–old now. And you know what eighteen means? It means my brain is sharp.”
She pouted, “Think about it. Wasn’t the peak of your knowledge right after you took the SAT?”
Roderick was silent.
That was true for most people, but him… After the SAT, he had spent years cramming knowledge like a demon to inherit the family company. The average person couldn’t compare.
“I think you should give me more work, something harder, more
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challenging.”
Roderick chuckled. So that’s what this was about.
Other people couldn’t wait to do less work and slack off more,
but she was quite special.
A young mindset is still young. It’s good to be young.
“Alright, stay here with me this afternoon.”
Madeleine subconsciously glanced towards the lounge, her
thoughts immediately turning dirty.
A whole afternoon?
Staying in there?
Roderick reached out and tapped her forehead, annoyed.
“What’s going on in that head of yours? I had you come over to
watch me handle work, to get you familiar with the business.”
Madeleine retorted stubbornly, “My mind wasn’t in the gutter!”
In the afternoon, Madeleine obediently pulled up a stool and sat
next to Roderick.
While he reviewed documents, he explained the company’s
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business operations to Madeleine.
“Take a look at this.”
Roderick took out a stack of documents and handed them to
Madeleine.
She kept her head down, reading for a full half–hour. They were
all documents from Edward’s company.
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