Chapter 5
Everyone was shocked.
Evelyn covered her face, her mind went blank, and she only felt a burning sensation on her face.
“How could you be so irresponsible! You actually managed to misspell the name of our company. Do you know how much of a joke we became once the document was released?”
Martin stepped forward and blocked Evelyn, reassuringly saying, “Ms. Howard, calm down, this matter will be explained to you…”
After much effort, these people were finally persuaded to leave.
Evelyn sat in the president’s office, silent.
After a while, Martin finally opened the door and walked in..
“Are you okay?”
Evelyn did not look up as footsteps approached her.
The next moment, an ice pack appeared in front of her. She pursed her lips and took it, gently applying it to her face, feeling the burning sensation on her face lessen a bit.
Evelyn took a deep breath and looked up, asking, “What exactly happened?”
Martin handed over the project proposal and pressed his forehead, saying, “Take a look yourself.”
After flipping through the project proposal, Evelyn’s face immediately darkened as she noticed that the name of the collaborating company had been misspelled by one letter.
Martin’s voice was cold, “This part was Jenny’s responsibility, and she made such a big mess of it, resulting in deductions in this quarter’s performance…”
Without waiting for him to finish, Evelyn looked
P from the report and urgently interrupted, “Who told you? Isabel?”
“Jenny could not have made such a basic mistake. I had checked this part before handing it over to Isabel, and there were no errors.” Martin glanced at her and said lightly, “She was your friend, don’t favor her,”
Evelyn chuckled, “Who is favoring whom after all? You let Isabel come in and confront me.”
Martin said in a low voice, “Evelyn, enough is enough. Business is business, and personal is personal”
Evelyn clenched her hand and stood up abruptly, staring intensely into Martin’s eyes. “Martin, be honest with yourself, were you really keeping your personal and professional lives separate? Isabel is just trying to shift the blame, can’t you see that?”
Martin began to grow impatient, “I know what kind of person Isabel is, she wouldn’t do something like this.”
In an instant, Evelyn felt as if her heart had been pierced.
Pain engulfed her entire body, gradually invading like a burning fire, leaving her with nowhere to escape,
She tightly clenched her hand, her nails sinking into the flesh, the pain making her alert.
A voice squeezed out from the throat, “Did you believe her no matter what she did?”
Martin looked at her suddenly reddened eyes and inexplicably felt annoyed,
After a long while, he pressed his brow and lowered his voice, “This is just a small matter, you don’t need to argue about it.”
Evelyn couldn’t help but chuckle when she saw the man in front of her, who was unconsciously defending Isabel.
There was more bitterness that couldn’t be dispelled in the laughter.
