Chapter 450


    Another busy day, and another mountain of documents were waiting for Myra to go through. She went


    to her desk and started working quickly. Nothing’s easy around here. Gotta work hard.


    Heather was already immersed in work. She had been going to work early for the past few days. Most


    of the time, she would be the first to arrive. The office was always eerily quiet this early in the morning,


    but she had toe no matter what. ke was assigning a lot of irrelevant work for her, but she


    couldn’t refuse, so she went on with it, though work had been giving her a headache.


    It wasn’t until she was halfway done when the other employees starteding in, and ke came the


    Heather never abused her privileges, nor would she butt heads with ke. However, ke kept


    harassing her, much to her chagrin.


    She wouldn’t mind working in thepany if everything was smooth sailing, but nay. She had to work


    through all the office politics every day, and that took all the fun out of work. I thought ke was a good


    guy, but no. He’s evil. ke wasn’t as unscrupulous as he was before he took over thepany, but


    after he became the CEO, he kept tripping up Heather. She thought it was childish of him.


    The first thing ke did when he came was toe to Heather’s office. She was too busy to notice


    him, so she thought it was just another employee. “Talk.” Heather didn’t even look up.


    ke arched an eyebrow at her. “It’s me, Heather. Your brother,” he said sarcastically. Heather quickly


    looked up and frowned.


    ke was nothing but trouble for Heather, and he knew Heather disliked him too. But he would trip her


    up again and again, because he thrived on her misery. “What’s the matter, ke?” Heather forced a


    smile.


    ke whipped out a stack of files and put them on her desk. “There’s a few errors here, Heather,” he


    said solemnly.


    Heather thought she had never seen those files before, so she skimmed through them quickly. There


    wasn’t anything wrong in the first few pages, so she kept skimming, then she noticed all the errors were


    marked in red.


    What’s this? Elementary homework? The corner of her lips twitched. The documents were about the


    data on the European side of the business, so it wasn’t important. ke wanted her to finish it in a day


    out of a sudden, so she had to work overtime to finish it. Small mistakes were inevitable in such a short


    frame of time, and it wasn’t a big deal anyway.


    Heather wondered why ke was ming her for it as if she made a huge loss for thepany. “I


    see. I’ll rectify them right away. They should be done by today.” Left with no choice, she took the loss.


    She didn’t pay too much attention to it, so any mistake was her fault.


    ke wouldn’t let her off the hook that easily though. He was just waiting for her to trip up. Even


    though it wasn’t a big mistake, he could make a mountain out of a molehill, since he was the boss


    anyway. ke cleared his throat and put on an angry look. “I had high hopes for you, Heather. You’ve


    never made any mistakes since you were a child. Any imperfection is unforgivable.”


    What the heck is this *sshole talking about? Heather looked at him in disbelief as he spouted


    nonsense. “You’re giving me too much credit, ke. Everyone makes mistakes, especially me. I made


    a lot of unforgivable ones, and that’s why everyone hates me,” she insulted herself. Since ke


    wanted to embarrass her, then she would y along with him.


    Heather had a lot of stuff to handle, so she didn’t have the time to argue with him over every little


    matter. Whatever he says.


    It was effective enough, since it shut ke up. He couldn’t take it any further when Heather was


    already insulting herself. It took him a while before he answered, “Don’t say that, Heather. Everyone


    loves you. They won’t—” ke didn’t finish his sentence. He noticed that Heather was giving him a


    tantly sarcastic smile.


    Heather arched her eyebrow. She didn’t want to keep the charade up anymore, since she didn’t have


    as much free time as ke did.


    ke noticed her underlying anger too, and he realized he had annoyed her. I’d probably get diced if I


    pushed my luck. Whatever. I got what I came here for anyway. And it’s not that much of a problem. No


    point dwelling over it. ke decided to stop pushing her around, since it wasn’t the time to confront her


    just yet. “Get to it, and don’t waste my time,” he said seriously. Even though he was a douchebag,


    ke could be intense when he wanted to.


    Heather nodded. “Sure. My assistant will hand it over once I’m done.” She wanted him to leave right


    away. If he stayed even for a moment longer, Heather thought she might kill him. Once he was gone,


    she massaged her temples, calming herself down. Crap. Dealing with him is exhausting. Time was a


    strange thing. It changed ke for the worse, and he wasn’t even good to begin with. She had always


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    disliked him for being an unfaithful yboy, but ever since he took over thepany, he started


    bing scummier than ever.


    She looked outside the door and wondered how long her suffering would go on. There was still her


    up early and work overtime, but she also had to look out for ke in case he tripped her up again.


    God, this is a pain. She massaged her temples.


    She had never felt so frustrated before, but she had no choice. She wondered when the harassment


    from ke would stop, but there was nothing she could do aside from pressing on no matter how hard


    it was. She had tried to stay out of his way, but he insisted on going out of his way to make life hard for


    her.


    There were times when she just wanted to humiliate herself in public just so he would stop tripping her


    up. She wondered if he would let her off the hook if she did so, but she couldn’t do it. That would mean


    she’d have to damage thepany, and that was uneptable, at least for her. She knew ke didn’t


    care, but thepany was special for her. She worked hard to make the business a sess in


    Europe.


    Heather had decided to run a business herself, but that didn’t mean she would abandon Langston


    Group. She wanted to get even more partners for them, since thepany’s sess made her happy


    too. Langston Group held a special ce in her heart. She loved thepany more than ke did.


    Ironic, considering that ke controlled thepany. It was probably her sentiments at work, but that


    was how women tended to act.


    She read through the documents ke left her. Before that, she was hard at work with something else,


    but ke’s childish tendencies forced her to stop. The frustration from the sudden pause filled her with


    rage and an urge to toss all the files into the shredder, but she held the urge down. There was no time


    for tantrums, for she had a lot of work to do. Heather rectified all the mistakes she made, and she


    realized they were genuine mistakes on her part. The little mistakes did affect the presentation.


    Heather reflected on the mistakes she made. She hated shirking her responsibilities, and time wasn’t


    an excuse for her to make any errors. She reflected on herself while correcting the mistakes she made.


    Once she was done, Heather felt much better about herself. Subsequently, she called her assistant, but


    nobody was in the office. Oh, it’s lunchtime already?


    Heather put down her work and stood up. Oh god, I’m sore. I need a spa treatment. She skipped out on


    a lot of mealstely, for she was working harder than a graduate writing her thesis.


    She bumped into Matthias right after she came out of thepany, much to her surprise. Now this is a


    huge coincidence. She stared at him.


    Matthias was wearing a pair of sunsses, and he smiled warmly at Heather. It caught her by surprise,


    melting her heart. “What brings you here?”


    He had been waiting for her, but he wouldn’t tell her that. Matthias came to herpany before


    lunchtime just so he could “bump into her” right after she came out. He didn’t expect her toe out


    Matthias wanted to go into thepany, but he decided against it. The whole point for the wait was to


    create the feeling of a chance encounter. Heather had been avoiding himtely, and he was out of


    excuses to ask her out. In the end, he decided to go with a stupid n—waiting for her.


    But the point was that this n came down to luck. It wasn’t the first time Matthias pulled this stunt, but


    he failed every time. Even so, seeing her was well worth it in the end. Sometimes, he would ask


    himself, Why am I doing this? But there was no answer for that.


    For some reason, he would start missing Heather from time to time. He missed her smile, and he


    missed the way she talked; he wondered why he felt that way. Perhaps it was a rebound, since he


    thought the one he liked was Myra. He didn’t know why he would start to yearn for Heather out of the


    blue.