"Maple?" Lucy called out gently to Mabel.


    Mable wiped away her tears and quickly gave Lucy a nod of her head. "I''m sorry. I didn''t cry on purpose, Lucy. I''ll get back to work right now."


    Lucy stopped her in frustration. "It''s fine. Just rest here for a while. If you don''t mind, how about telling me what exactly happened?"


    She was a little hesitant about getting Mabel to tell the truth.


    It would make Mabel feel better to tell the truth, but at the look of Mabel...


    The concerned look on Lucy''s face must have been too obvious because Mabel eventually revealed everything, "We knew each other back in high school. She''s two years older than I am, and she enrolled in art college first.


    "We could talk about anything under the sun, and we told each other everything, including our ideas forics. However, the closer we got, the more we realized how simr our drawing styles were.


    "It never urred to me that she was the one responsible for giarizing myic this time. She was the reason I joined thispany."


    Lucy nced at Mabel with a stunned look on her face. "She was the reason? What do you mean?"


    Mabel lowered her head. "You know her too, Lucy. She used to work here."


    She gave Lucy a name, and Lucy immediately remembered the name as one of theic artists whom Luna had poached.


    Lucy tried to remember what that person looked like.


    She had the impression that the woman had strong ethics. She was always smiling and enjoyed helping others. Why did she end up doing something like this? Mabel gave her answer.


    "I asked her before whichpany IThis material belongs to N?velDrama.Org.


    should join after graduating. She suggested thispany to me and introduced me to yourpany without hesitation. It was also around the same time that Mr. Leon was recruiting on campus, and I ended up working here."


    Mable was reminded of how her best friend had talked about thepany culture. "When she rmended thispany to me, I thought she was working here. But by the time I joined thepany, she had started at anotherpany.


    "I didn''t think much of it, but I never expected things to turn out this way."


    She began to fumble at the end. It


    was clear that Mabel was too upset, and her tears fell from her eyes. She cried for quite a while before she was able to force herself to calm down.


    Mabel looked at Lucy with reddened eyes and said, “Thank you for listening to me, Lucy. I''ll be going back to work." Lucy could not do anything much for Mabel. The only thing left for her to do was to take back the rights of Mabel''sic.


    She waved Mabel off, and Mabel returned to work.


    Not long after Mabel left, Lucy returned to her desk and she went into a rare daze.


    However, she quickly pulled herself together, and a determined look shed in her eyes. She quietly promised Mabel that she would do her best about the situation.


    ...


    Everyone in Lucy''spany was prepared for what came next early the next morning.


    This was the day the investors woulde for a meeting. This battle involved their credibility, and everyone was not about to let anything slip.


    A Rolls-Royce soon appeared downstairs, and a middle-aged man got out of the car. It was Wayne Erlington, the man who wanted to invest in Lucy''spany.