Chapter 62: Their Fake Engagement Was Exposed


    Florence delved into her busy designing work once again after thepetition’s rules were dered


    the next morning. Ernest no longer came to her room to read, yet he had allocated an assistant for her.


    “Hi, I’m your new assistant, Shirley Flores. You can call me Shirley.” Shirley was a fresh university


    graduate and she looked na?ve and cheerful. Her professional skills were excellent and she was very


    respectful to Florence too. Florence did not mind having an assistant during her busy time yet Cooper


    was clearly unhappy. He looked at Shirley coldly and asked, “Why did thepany send you here all


    of a sudden?”


    As if she had memorized what she should answer beforehand, she replied smoothly without hesitation,


    “Hasn’t Florence just gotten the first ce in thestpetition? She has made ourpany proud,


    and now thepany values her very much. That’s why I was sent here to help.” Having represented


    thepany itself, Cooper had nothing else to say. Yet he was still acting unfriendly towards her.


    “Don’t you disturb Florence, I’ll arrange work for you.”


    Florence was starting to get busy, and she indeed had no strength to care about Shirley. Since she


    trusted Cooper very much too, she allowed him to arrange it all. Atst, it was Cooper who ended up


    doing the tasks that required close assistance while Shirley was the one who did all the crappy jobs.


    Shirley was dissatisfied, she argued and bantered with Cooper asionally, lightening up the nervous


    working atmosphere.


    It was soon the time for finals. Florence led the model into the workingpartment she was allocated


    to and started changing clothes, making preparations before thepetition. Just then, the door was


    pushed open by someone from the outside. Isabel walked in with a domineering attitude. Florence


    frowned and instinctively blocked in front of the clothes, staring at her with alert. “What are you doing?


    You have no right entering my workingpartment before thepetition, get out!”


    Isabel was not affected by her words at all and she ordered the model to leave for a moment. The


    model hesitated and fearing the power behind her, she still chose to leave. She spoke to Florence


    before she left, “Miss Fraser, I’ll be outside, you can call me whenever you need me.” Florence frowned


    and did not say a word.


    Isabel closed the door after the model left. She looked at Florence with a false smile and said,


    “Florence, you don’t have to be that nervous. We already know each other so well and I won’t do


    anything to you.” It was her who did all the bad things, and she was bold enough to say she did


    nothing. Florence asked coldly, “What do you want?”


    “Nothing. I just want to show you some pictures.” Isabel smiled and took some photos out from her


    purse. She tossed them casually onto the table in front of Florence. The photos spread and they were


    all about her contact with Cooper these days. There was the photo which Cooper picked dish for her


    during the bonfire festival, Cooper hugged her in the water when she was swimming, and also when


    Cooper protected her from being poured by the wine…Every photo was taken at such a tricky angle


    that made them looked extremely intimate to each other, even more lovey-dovey than ordinary couples.


    “Florence, I suppose you remember you have a fiancé, and that fiancé is Mr. Ernest Hawkins?” Isabel


    leered. “Since you’re a woman who has a spouse, I guess it doesn’t look great being so intimate with


    other man? Or is it because you’re two timing your fiancé?”


    “Isabel Hopkins, don’t be ridiculous! We’re innocent, me and Cooper, and what you said is untrue…”


    Florence pulled down her face and clenched her fists; she slightly panicked and felt uneasy. Isabel


    sneered, “Is it up to you to say so? Will the olddy of the Hawkins family trust you when she sees


    these photos?”


    It was Georgia Hawkins who arranged the marriage between Florence and Ernest all by herself. The


    reason an arrogant person like Ernest wanted to go through the engagement process, even willing to


    agree having a fake engagement with her was all to console Georgia. It was said that Georgia had a


    very poor health and she was unable to withstand any shock. Ernest’s marriage was the thing she


    cared about the most now, and if she had seen these photos…Florence felt a chill down her spine and


    she did not dare to imagine the possible detrimental consequences afterwards at all.


    Isabel looked at her despondent look with satisfaction and her mood was greatly lightened up. “Of


    course, don’t you think of telling the olddy about this with Ernest Hawkins first, because during the


    time I hand these photos to her, I would also tell her...” Isabel paused, and every word she said


    afterwards was full of evil intention. “That the engagement between you and Ernest Hawkins is fake!”


    Florence froze and her face went cadaverous. Her voice slightly trembled as she spoke, “Are you


    insane? How dare you say such nonsense?”


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    “Nonsense or not, you know better than I do. Florence, I’ve heard every single word you said to Ernest


    Hawkins in the changing room that day.” Every word she said had slowly eliminated the fluke she


    thought she had. She felt her body cold and she could barely keep her bnce. It was the biggest


    secret between her and Ernest, and Isabel had actually known it! She waspletely doomed.


    Isabel sneered withcence. “Since I’ve heard that, I’ll certainly have ways to make the olddy


    believe that, and also the intimate rtionship between you and Cooper Scott. I wonder what would


    happen to you after that.”


    “Isabel Hopkins! What on earth do you want?” Florence gritted her teeth to keep her from falling down.


    Her weakness had been held by her enemy and she had no way to resist her. “It’s easy. If you quit the


    finals this time, I’ll be kind to help you conceal all these, how’s that?” She had made full preparations


    and thepetition was going to begin, yet Isabel wanted her to quit at a moment like this. It was the


    most demonic thing she had ever seen.


    Florence stared at her with rage. “You did this on purpose? You heard our conversations that day, yet


    you choose to tell me before the finals start.”


    “Yes, indeed. I want you to experience wholeheartedly the despair whereby sess is right in front of


    you, yet you could only choose to give up.” With a ferocious look, Isabel spoke with a cruel tone of


    voice. “Or, you could choose not to give up, as long as you don’t mind the olddy know the truth. Your


    agreement with Ernest is going to expire anyway.”


    It was going to expire, but it was not yet expired. Even if there was only one day left, she could not let


    such a thing happen. That was what she had promised Ernest. With a cadaverous face, she could not


    withstand any longer and she copsed onto the chair, as if all her energy had been drained at once.


    “Florence, you could only be trampled by me all your life, and don’t you think of escaping.” Isabel


    laughedcently. She then walked to the clothes worn by the mannequin and cut it with a pair of


    scissors. That was Florence’s work, the work she did with painstaking effort. She immediately stood up


    and shouted, “Isabel Hopkins, don’t you touch it!”