Chapter 100 An Argument
Joanna’s palms balled into fists as she lifted her head to look at the dashing man through teary eyes.
For someone who had graduated as the main disciple of Maestro Yitzchak, a pioneer in fashion design, Joanna would have held a higher position than Nicole if she aimed for a bigger company instead of Gardner Corporation, which had only started out.
It was all for Colton that she willingly started from the bottom while achieving her feats along the way.
All those sacrifices, and yet all she received was Colton telling her to resign.
She could feel her nose twitch, but she could only suppress the sadness that was welling up in her chest by answering in a small voice. “I understand,” she whispered.
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Scarlett had just left the room when a commotion could be heard from outside. Nicole stayed unmoving until she heard someone shouting her name at the top of their lungs.
“Nicole! You b*tch! Get your ass out here!” The shriek was so loud that it was on the verge of breaking.
Stepping out of the office, Nicole was greeted by the sight of Sabrina being surrounded by a crowd of people doing their best to stop Sabrina from barging into the office. With the thick makeup she had slapped on her face, and her mane messy from struggling against the crowd, she looked like a complete lunatic who had just broken out of a mental hospital. To make matters worse, she never once ceased the profanities coming out of her mouth.
“Miss,” Scarlett sternly called out as she grabbed Sabrina by the wrist. “Please stop. This is a workplace!”
Sabrina’s eyes were red with rage. After shoving Scarlett and making her fall to the ground, she turned to Nicole and began chastising, “You witch! Why did you fire my brother? How could you do this just because I have offended you?!”
Nicole only frowned in confusion at that. “What are you on about?”
Thinking that Nicole was pretending not to understand her words, Sabrina let out a scoff before questioning, “What are you acting innocent for? Remember Shaun Geller? Were you not the one who fired him?”
Ah, siblings. Nicole finally connected the dots. That explains why they are both so annoying.
She managed to keep her cool in the face of the enraged woman and calmly said in a raised voice. “For your information, Colton Gardner was the one who laid off Shaun Geller. Go to the President’s office if you want to find someone to bark at. Why did you even come to me?”
“I’m sure you were the one who talked the President into it!” Sabrina’s face began to turn redder by the second as she spouted whatever nonsense she could at Nicole. “Nicole, you b*tch. Everyone knows that President Yates of F&M Apparel is interested in you. Don’t pretend that it was not the reason why you became the Chief Designer!”
Nicole’s expression fell slightly when those words came out of Sabrina’s lips. A hint of anger then began to show on her exquisite face.
Sabrina could feel her spirits rise when she saw the sour expression on Nicole’s face. Thinking that she had managed to poke at Nicole’s sore spot, she passionately continued on with her idle talk.
“You must have such great technique in bed that you were rewarded for your services! That must be how you were impregnated, and later gave birth to that b*stard baby 5 years ago. You even have to bring that child along everywhere you go now! I wonder if—”
As Sabrina was talking, she was suddenly stopped by a sharp pain on her left cheek. The loud sound of skin meeting skin quickly reverberated throughout the office.
Nicole had diverted all her strength into the slap that her own palm was tingling from the numbing pain. However, she showed no emotion as she continued to coldly glare at the other woman.
Swiftly after that, a red handprint began to appear on Sabrina’s face. Sabrina was so surprised that she could only blankly stare at Nicole in disbelief. Never would she have expected Nicole to lay a hand on her when provoked.
“You—” Her hands were trembling out of fury. After collecting herself from the initial shock, she took a step forward as she raised her hand in an attempt to return the slap.
Her hand didn’t even manage to make a full swing as Nicole had grabbed her firmly before giving another hard slap on her right cheek.
Blinded by rage, Sabrina dashed forward in Nicole’s direction while wildly screaming, “You f*cking tramp! I’ll drag you to hell with me!”
