Chapter 439
Chapter 439
The following day, Conrad and Fia had breakfast and went to the office as usual.
Conrad still had his morning meeting to attend, and Fia waited for him to leave before calling Eileen to
continue their topic about what to get for Conrad’s birthday.
Eileen whined from the other end of the line, “Fia, this is such a difficult question! You might as well ask
a guy for suggestions!”
“Who would I ask?”
“You could ask Mr. Whitley.”
“No way. Mr. Whitley is tacky. He’ll probably suggest things like limited branded goods. That’s so
gaudy! It wouldn’t have much meaning!”
Eileen hesitated, then said, “Then… Do you want to ask Doctor Evans?”
Fia was stunned. She hadn’t spoken to Jason in a long while.
“Well? Have you been in touch with Doctor Evanstely?”
“No. It would be best if I didn’t ask him about this. It’s weird.”
“Well… you’re right. You owe him a favor, after all. Asking him about a gift for your husband is like
stabbing him in the heart too.”
“If you already know that, why would you suggest him?” Fia muttered, her mood plunging downward.
“Is it because you’ve had too much free timetely? Even your suggestions are bing weird.”
“Oh my god, yes! I’m so bored! I really want someone to love me and stay by my side too, you know? I
really envy you, Fia,” Eileen said in a sickeningly sweet voice. “If only you weren’t married, I’m sure we
would have worked out!”
“Forget it. I don’t swing that way.”
“Tch! What happened to friendship over love, huh?”
The two continued chatting for a while before they hung up in a happy mood.
Fia was still worried about what to get for Conrad’s birthday. Asking Eileen had been a waste of time,
and she didn’t dare to ask Ss. So, with no other options left, she decided to turn to her phone’s voice
assistant.
“Who are you giving a birthday present to?”
Fia held her breath for a few moments before whispering, “My husband.”
“You should give yourself to him! He will be very happy!”
What the hell?
Fia was speechless. Did her phone get possessed or something?!
Even though those were her first thoughts, she couldn’t help but keep the suggestion in her heart.
“My name is Annie Parker. I’ll be working with everyone here from today on. I hope you’ll advise me if
there are any shorings. Thank you!”
”
After saying that, Annie bowed deeply to everyone in the Foreign Affairs department.
Some of them saw how young and pretty she was and started to be doubtful.
Someone said, “She’s not even twenty-two, and she’s already so aplished. Why did shee to
Maxwell Corporation?”
“Yeah! With the things she can do, she could have gotten into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!”
Annie smiled warmly and didn’t argue with anyone. She simply walked to her cubicle and tapped her
table.
“I bought Starbucks for everyone to drink as a small gift for meeting everyone for the first time.”
A few people nced at her table and saw several paper bags with drinks in them.
“Seriously? She’s that generous?”
“Is she from a wealthy family?”
The cheapest cost of a Starbucks drink was still around five dors, and there were at least forty
people in the department.
Annie smiled again and said, “I bought a variety of vors, so you can pick whichever suits your taste.”
Then, she picked up one of the bags and handed it to the woman in the next cubicle.
“Here, miss. Pick a vor you like.”
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The woman thanked Annie, took a cup, and then distributed the remaining ones to the others.
Soon, people starteding forward to pick their own drinks. Each person held a drink in their hand,
and their hostile gazes before had now vanished.
Annie had bought extra, so she took them and handed them to other employees who passed by the
department.
In less than half a day, she had gained quite a lot of “goodwill” by distributing the drinks.
“Annie, we didn’t mean anything by what we said just now. We were simply discussing and expressing
our concerns as your seniors.”
“Yeah. You’re very talented. I’m sure you would have done great if you had applied to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.”
The employees who had been doubtful before this now looked like they had been concerned about
Annie
instead.
Annie continued smiling and nodded humbly to show that she epted their words.
“Thank you, everyone. But Maxwell Corporation is a bigpany, and I’m still young and would like
something challenging. If you have too much on your hand, please leave it to me. I’ll try my best to help
and do a good job!”
Employees were sried people and not bosses, so it was natural that most wanted to muddle through
if they could.
Those who wanted to take it easy hurriedly rushed forward to Annie’s side, intending to hand over
some
of their work to her.
Annie didn’t lose her temper at the amount of work her colleagues shoved into her hands. She simply
epted them and buried her head in work
At noon, Ss went to the Foreign Affairs department for an inspection and asked a few people for their
opinion about Annie, and they were only full of praise for her.
“Don’t worry about her, Mr. Whitley! Annie is brilliant. All of us like her!”
“She’s quick in her work and has plenty of ideas!”
Ss listened patiently to their words, then approached Annie with a document in hand that he had
tranted before
He rapped his knuckle on the table and said, “Annie.”
“Mr Whitley Annie’s eyes lit up, and she jumped to her feet. “Do you have some work for me?”
Ss nodded. “Trante this document and hand it to me when you’re done.”
“Okay!” Annie said, epting it with both hands as she tried to contain her excitement.
Since it was Ss giving her work, it meant that the tranted documents would definitely be given to
Conrad.
Just thinking about that made her happy!
The time to prove her worth hade.
“Make sure you trante it properly with no mistakes.”
“You can count on me, Mr. Whitley!”
Two hourster, Ss knocked on the door of Conrad’s office.
“Mr. Maxwell.”
Conrad heard the call and looked toward the break room where Fia was taking her lunch break. He got
up and closed the door before letting Ss in.
“Here are the tranted documents for tomorrow.”
“Alright,” Conrad said as he took it.
“I’ve already checked it once, so you can look at it again.”
“Sure.”
Scanning through it quickly, Conrad was done reading in less than two minutes. Then, his eyes fell on
thest page where the signatures were.
“Was this done by Annie Parker?”
“Yes. I wanted to see how well her work was.”
Conrad thought about how Annie’s brows resembled Fia’s, then said, “There’s no problem with the
document.”
“Okay. I’ll give her more of Winnie’s work after this.”
Conrad neither agreed nor disagreed with Ss’ words. Thetter sensed something was not quite
right, and he asked cautiously, “Is there… something wrong?”
“Get Tiger to check on her background.”
Ss was confused. “She’s only a trantor. There’s no need for that, right?”
Maxwell Corporation didn’t have very strict policies when it came to their trantors unless they were
promoted and had ess to confidentialpany documents. That was the time they would do a
background check.
“Just do as I say.”
Conrad thought of the resemnce between Annie and Fia, then thought about Finn.
He was afraid that Fia’s biological father was somehow rted to Annie, since they had the same
surname.
“Something’s fishy about her, and it can’t be left unchecked.”
Ss quietly retreated after that.
Conrad picked up the document Annie had tranted from where he had dropped it on his table.
Giving it ast nce, he threw it into the dustbin.
Without figuring everything out, he wouldn’t use her work.
“Conrad!” Fia’s voice rang out from the breakroom, and Conrad rushed toward her.
“What’s wrong, Fia?”
Fia was sweating profusely as she reached out to clutch Conrad’s hand. Her eyes were filled with
panic. as she stammered, “I… I dreamt of her…!”
“Who?”
Fia looked up and breathed sharply. After a few moments, she finally said in a muffled voice, “… My
cousin.
In her dream, Fia didn’t have any memories of growing up, and she innocently grabbed Esme’s clothes
as they tumbled in the water by the river as children.
Suddenly, she was pushed into the river, and the water turned violent as it rushed around her. Esme
floated into the air like a ghost and shot her a sinister smile.
Then, she said menacingly, “Fia… Even if I go to hell, I curse you! I curse you to die a miserable death
and
never have love!”
The dream felt so real, and it felt like forever before she coulde out, especially since she had lost
her
sight.
The fear and horror were deeply etched into her bones.