When Heather saw the news reports about her and Matthias, she immediately lost her appetite for breakfast.
She stood up under the others’ gazes and forced a smile at Robert. “I’m done with breakfast. There are some matters to be attended to in the company, so I shall leave first.”
With that, Heather left the Langston Residence and sped all the way to vent out her displeasure. Now that an agreement had been established between her and Matthias, she couldn’t actually retort the reports because according to their agreement, there was no issue about the content reported.
However, by publishing this kind of news together with Myra’s wedding reports, it was like indirectly informing Myra about the ambiguous relationship between Heather and Myra.
Heather was worried that Myra would instinctively connect the dots before she could confess to her.
Fortunately, Myra had gone for her honeymoon trip, otherwise she would have confronted her about this matter. Nevertheless, the honeymoon trip would end sooner or later, and Heather had no idea how she should explain to Myra when the latter came back to Bradfort City.
She couldn’t expose the agreement as the reason, but neither did she want to admit her entanglement with Matthias, so the situation seemed to be unsolvable. As long as the agreement still existed, Heather would be bound to Matthias, and the relationship between them would remain complicated.
Right now, how Heather wished to throw 100 million at Matthias to dismiss the vexing agreement. She regretted being soft-hearted back then.
In fact, she had warned herself numerous times that her soft-heartedness would bring her great trouble, but she still made this stupid mistake. While reprimanding herself, Heather had already arrived at Langston Group. She parked her car at the basement carpark with mixed feelings.
The day started off nasty, and it seemed like more bad things would follow. Frustrated, Heather pressed on the button in the lift hard. Heather’s displeasure was so obvious that the staff in Langston Group tried to keep away from her, and no one dared to provoke her.
At this moment, there was only one person who would have the nerve to provoke Heather shamelessly—Blake. The more annoyed Heather was, the more he wanted to sneer at her.
Initially, Heather had already calmed down, but little did she expect the arrival of the unwanted visitor. She received Blake with a sullen face.
Actually, Blake was the one who had ‘kindly’ handed over the newspaper with the said report to Heather. He enjoyed irritating Heather as he found pleasure in her misery.
“What mistake did I make again that you have to come personally to give me a lecture, Blake?” Heather asked sarcastically.
Blake seemed to be in a good mood and he was wearing a smug smile. “Nothing. I came specially to check on you this time. You’re my beloved sister, and I’m worried for you after seeing the reports today.”
Hearing Blake’s hypocritical answer, Heather curled up her lips in disdain. Blake was being increasingly mean lately, and he would use all sorts of things to mock her, which made her think he was actually quite pathetic.
“Blake, there are currently many projects going on in Langston Group which need your attention, so please don’t be concerned about my private matters. I’m an adult and I’ll be responsible for my own actions,” Heather replied calmly so that Blake couldn’t embarrass her.
“Grandpa keeps asking me to look after you, so I shouldn’t let him down,” Blake said uprightly as he used Robert as an excuse again.
“Let’s not talk about private matters during office hours. If you’re really worried about me, we can have a chat after work.” Heather forced a smile. Blake was just a joker to her, and she couldn’t be bothered to argue with him.
“Sure. Everyone knows you’re a workaholic. I shouldn’t disturb you during your working time,” Blake continued on fearlessly although Heather had no intention of dealing with him anymore.
“Since you’ve said so, I shall continue working.” Heather lowered her head and continued reading the documents, planning to just ignore Blake.
Blake was merely paying lip service to Heather and didn’t think that she would actually ignore him. He stared at her in resignation as it would be awkward for him to either leave or stay.
Heather was busy doing her work and completely disregarded Blake, leaving him unattended to. It was only after a few moments later did she lift up her head and pretended to be unaware that Blake was still around.
“Why are you still here, Blake?” Heather feigned a perfect innocent look.
Blake glared coldly at Heather. He was still hanging here because he was unresigned to leave before he even touched the main point. After all, he had specially come this time to sneer at Heather.
“Heather, I’m not sure how I should say this.” Blake feigned a troubled look, but Heather was not interested in his lousy acting at all.
“Say what?” Heather looked at Blake calmly. She responded to him merely because she hoped he would quickly spit it out and stop beating around the bush. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to work in peace.
“The scandal of you and Matthias has caused a sensation in the city and affected Langston Group.” Blake was still feigning a troubled look, and Heather was impressed that he feigned the look for so long.
Heather pretended to be surprised and clueless as she looked at Blake and said innocently, “I’m not sure what you are referring to. Did I do something inappropriate and cause Langston Group’s share price to plummet?” The second half of her reply was filled with sarcasm.
Blake derided, “It’s not that, but there are gossips about Langston Group having some tangled relationship with Locke Group.” He tried to make his statement sound ambiguous. He didn’t dare to say it outright lest he got himself in trouble upon infuriating Heather.
The intention behind his subtle hint was actually to question Heather why she kept involving herself in scandals with Matthias, which was affecting Langston Group’s reputation negatively.
Heather feigned a confused look and asked Blake in return, “Aren’t the gossips true? It seems like the relationship between you and Matthias is very delicate. I suppose Langston Group will collaborate with Locke Group sooner or later.” Heather was extremely quick-witted and immediately pushed the blame to Blake.
Since he brought up Locke Group and Matthias, Heather might as well have a good talk with him. Before this, Matthias colluded with Blake, so Heather wouldn’t doubt it if there were some secret transactions between the two.
Blake was stunned as Heather had hit the nail on its head. Previously, he indeed had some complex association with Matthias, and both of them had committed numerous unlawful acts in the dark, so Blake instantly felt guilty when Heather brought it up.
“Heather, you should know what I’m referring to,” Blake said while feigning an unaffected look. He wouldn’t allow Heather to trick him. He didn’t believe that Matthias would tell Heather such private matters.
Upon contemplation, Blake soon realized that Heather was just setting him up. Nevertheless, he didn’t want to stay any longer lest Heather noticed that something fishy was going on.
On the other hand, Heather continued pretending to be unaware. “I really don’t.” Then, she casted a profound gaze at Blake, which made the latter feel like leaving at once.
“I shouldn’t have meddled with you youngsters’ private matters to begin with. Just forget about it and ignore whatever I’ve said. I still have some matters to attend to, so I’ll go back to my office first,” Blake said steadily. The more he wanted to leave, the more prudent he should be as he didn’t want Heather to find out that he was running away due to guilt.
Heather nodded slightly as a concurrence to Blake’s words. In fact, she didn’t want to continue entertaining him. With that, Blake left crestfallenly while a victorious smile spread across Heather’s face as she watched him leave.
Because Heather was fully devoted to her work, she didn’t spend much energy to keep an eye on Blake. As such, she missed out the opportunity to catch the illegal deals between Blake and Matthias.
Heather heaved a sigh of relief after Blake was gone. Blake had been rattling on just now, which caused her to be unable to focus on her work. After all, she was not a saint, so she would naturally be affected by the provoking words of Blake.
Back then, Blake was dying to see something happen between Heather and Matthias, but now, he was actually using Matthias to find fault with her, so Heather reckoned Blake wanted to use Matthias to strike her.
She didn’t realize it before this, but now she finally understood Blake’s motive. Interesting. So he’s using all sorts of methods to come after me.
Blake had always been plotting against Heather, and he even leveraged on her relationship. At this thought, Heather rubbed her temples. She would be put to more disadvantages if she continued staying in Langston Group.
Meanwhile, Matthias only woke up in the afternoon after being dead drunk from last night. It had been heart wrenching to watch Myra getting married. The scene of the marriage resurfaced incessantly in his dream last night, and Matthias just couldn’t forget Heather’s gaze.
They had met each others’ eyes a few times in the church, and the duration each time was actually quite long. Matthias was flustered by Heather’s gaze as he couldn’t tell her feelings from her eyes, and he was actually amused after reading the news reports.
“Evan, I don’t wish to see this kind of news report again in the future. They are really good at spinning stories,” Matthias humphed while tossing the newspaper into the garbage bin.
Seeing Matthias’s haughty expression, Evan smiled profoundly. “Sir, what do you think Miss Langston would feel after seeing this report?” It was indeed fearless of him to ask this question.
Matthias rolled his eyes at Evan, but the latter had actually reminded him of something. If Heather saw this report, Matthias reckoned the media would be in deep water.
“Perhaps she has not seen it yet,” Matthias replied nonchalantly.
“I doubt so. Not only is this published in the newspaper, but it was even on the front cover. I bet many people have seen it.” Evan smiled mysteriously, seeing which Matthias had the impulse to kick him out.
“Does this publisher have such great influence?” Matthias sensed that something odd was going on, so he ordered Evan, “Retrieve the newspaper from the garbage bin. I want to read it again carefully.” Matthias planned to examine the report as he was sure he would find some clues.
“I don’t want to. It’s too dirty,” Evan rejected firmly while passing his phone to Matthias. On the phone screen was none other than the said report.
