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The headphones said there was a call coming in.
She pressed answer.
“Say.”
Susanna: “Ms. Lombard, the 300 million marketing funds already arrived.”
“So fast?”
Phalicia raised her eyebrows.
I thought I could only get the money right at the last minute before the new product launch.
The old guys on the board were really stingy.
Susanna laughed on the phone, “It was a bit hard to get approved. Mr. Phelan vouched for it and said the money would bring in ten times more for the company. That’s when the shareholders agreed.”
Phalicia’s eyes went cold.
Susanna sighed, “Mr. Phelan really liked you. No matter what you wanted in the Jewelry Department, he helped you get it, no hesitation at all. He even gave you that three hundred million funding, just like that, even though the shareholders were all against it!”
Phalicia changed the subject and said indifferently, “Go find some well- known video bloggers who are trending online, fully promote the release time and style of the new product, and hype up Carlene for me. Tell them
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to focus on praising Carlene’s design skills.”
“Got it!” Susanna answered again and again.
Phalicia then said, “From now on, don’t joke about my private stuff with Caleb without my permission.”
“Got it, got it!” Susanna was stunned and didn’t know what was wrong
with her.
Before, when she sighed about how good Caleb was to Ms. Lombard, Ms. Lombard always nodded and smiled with a red face, looking really shy.
But now he suddenly seemed like a completely different person…
Susanna didn’t dare ask, and she just did whatever the boss said.
Phalicia hung up the phone, and the treadmill started to slow down.
She put her hands on her hips, kept breathing, tried to calm her heartbeat, and felt sick when she thought about what Susanna just said.
Every time Caleb asked for money, he always talked big, saying that with this money, the Jewelry Department could make all kinds of profits.
On the surface, it looked like he was vouching for her, but actually, to achieve those goals Caleb casually mentioned, no one knew how much effort it would take.
Now Caleb opened his mouth and said jewelry could bring ten times the profit, but wasn’t he still relying on her work to prove it?
Three billion in sales, thought it was easy to make, huh.
Phalicia got off the treadmill, wiped her sweat, and took a hot shower.
When she came out after changing her clothes, it was already completely
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dark outside.
Phalicia got in the car to rehydrate and was about to head back when Caleb called.
She casually pressed the answer button, and before she could say anything, she first heard a burst of laughter and deafening music.
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Clinton was yelling on the phone, “Hey Caleb, what are you doing? Don’t hold your phone upside down, I can’t believe you!”
Phalicia frowned.
Clinton took the phone and smiled, “Sister–in–law, Caleb got drunk. Now he just insists on calling you.”
A look of disgust flashed in Phalicia’s eyes, and she rubbed her temples.
“You guys take it easy, don’t let him get totally wasted, he still had to work tomorrow.”
“Was…”
Caleb grabbed the phone right away, pressed his face against it, and called out to her in a drunken voice.
“Vonnie.”
Phalicia slowly gripped her phone.
On the other end of the phone, someone clearly gasped.
Clinton quickly smiled and said awkwardly, “What do you mean, Vonnie? Caleb, what are you talking about? This is my sister–in–law!”
“Wasn’t your sister–in–law Vonnie?”
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Caleb held his phone and let out a soft laugh, his voice full of affection.
“Vonnie, can you come pick me up? I was drunk, I just wanted to see you right now…”
“Did you know I missed you a lot? It’s been three years, I thought about you every day. What about you? Did you come back because you saw I became the heir, or did you really just never get over me?”
Phalicia’s eyes got colder and colder.
Then, there was a burst of noise from over there, and Clinton grabbed the phone.
“He was drunk, sis–in–law, please don’t be mad at him! I’ll hang up now,
let’s talk later!”
The call was quickly hung up.
Phalicia sat in the car, looking at the street outside.
From the moment she found out about Caleb’s betrayal until now, she had been holding on because of hatred.
But she just couldn’t stand it–people she hated kept provoking her and grossing her out, over and over again.
How long did I have to keep wearing this fake mask?
As soon as Phalicia closed her eyes, she just couldn’t stop Caleb’s face from popping up in her mind.
