Female Novel
Chapter 2164
Lucy waited by the door until Cindy walked past her before saying, "I got a little curious when Ihappened to pass by and saw you working overtime."
Cindy responded with an indifferent grunt and a nod. Despite her dislike for Lucy, she didn't dare to gohead-to-head with her. "Well, I was given the order to work on, so I just wanted to use my time wisely."She gave a reasonable reply.
Lucy seemed surprised and furrowed her eyebrows. "It hasn't been long since you joined us, but you'vealready been given the order to work on. It looks like you're really talented."
Cindy responded humbly, thinking little of herself. "This is all thanks to Miss Warhol. I'm actually not ascapable as you think I am."
After hearing that, Lucy didn't say a single word and went to follow Cindy into the elevator. As soon asthe elevator door closed, Lucy asked, "Did Miss Warhol have a word with you in private?"
Cindy was stunned in response to Lucy's question, wondering what the latter was trying to imply aboutthe last two private conversations Serena had with her. Although Serena said nothing to sway her,Cindy was sure she wouldn't be Lucy's mentee anyway, even if the former didn't approach her privately.Furthermore, Cindy was aware of how Lucy felt toward Gary, understanding how her emotions couldcloud her judgment because of that.
As someone who didn't like to rely heavily on connections for success, Cindy would rather put in thehard work to prove her worth. Ironically, she somehow ended up using her connections like she haddespised without herself being aware of it, but even so, she was determined to make sure that wouldn'thappen again. No matter what others think of me, I'm going to prove myself with my hard work and
effort. At the thought of that, Cindy immediately played dumb to avoid giving rise to anymisunderstanding between her and Lucy. "Huh? What do you mean?"
Lucy turned around and looked at Cindy with a smile. "Did Miss Warhol say something that has led to amisunderstanding about me to you?"
"No, there isn't a misunderstanding here. What's wrong? What happened?" Lucy continued to playdumb.
Eventually, Lucy stopped pressing on with her question, thinking she might have probably read toomuch into the situation. Thus, upon staring at Cindy for a few seconds, she replied with an affirmativehum and heaved a sigh of relief. "Alright then. I was just asking anyway."
In the meantime, Cindy looked away without knowing what else to say. Although she hadn't interactedwith Lucy much, she didn't really have a favorable impression of her. After all, Lucy seemed like awoman who liked playing office politics without wanting to face the consequences.
If playing dirty tricks behind someone else's back is your thing, you should be prepared for the day thatyour scheme gets exposed. It's like a package. Anyone who does that needs to have the courage toaccept the consequences, but you? You look like the kind of person who hopes that karma won't comeback to you after taking advantage of someone else. Regardless of how the others felt toward Lucy,Cindy couldn't really bring herself to like her.
As soon as the elevator arrived, the two ladies stepped out of it and headed toward the company'slobby. Then, Lucy suggested giving Cindy a ride home since she drove to the office earlier that day.However, Cindy didn't want to have anything further to do with her, so she turned her down anddecided to take a cab home instead. That's probably more convenient for me.
Lucy stared at Cindy for a short while and took her eyes off her with a nod. "Alright, stay safe on yourway back home."
Cindy responded with a polite gesture and exited the company's lobby. At that moment, a cabhappened to pass by just in time before she flagged it down. See? That's what I call convenience.Soon, she got home and realized Aurora wasn't around, believing she must have left home for work orsomething. Having lost her appetite to eat because of Lucy, Cindy went on to sleep on the couch in theliving room. novelbin
Upon lying on the couch for a few moments, Cindy grabbed her cell phone and checked it out, seeing amessage from Aurora, who told her that she would only be back at night. It's not the first time, anyway.She closed her text message app and immediately received an incoming message on WhatsApp, butbefore she viewed its content, the sender's name left her stranded for a second.