Departure with a Belly (Alaric and Victoria)

Chapter 47

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In the end, after staring at Victoria’s unaffected expression, Yasmin

reluctantly took her seat. That being said, she couldn’t help but vent her

dissatisfaction as she bit her lip and fumed, “Didn’t you hear what they

said, Miss Victoria? They went too far! I wish I could rip their tongues out.”

“And?” Victoria asked calmly. “Start a fight just over a few words they said?

What will they say next? Is it going to be that not only was I forced to eat

lunch at the cafeteria, but I even got into a fight with the other employees

at the cafeteria because they hit a raw nerve?”

Yasmin frowned.

“That wasn’t my intention, Miss Victoria.”

“I know that, of course, but do you think you can accomplish anything by

confronting them? Regardless of whether or not you fight back, there’s no

way for you to control what comes out of someone else’s mouth.”

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Yasmin bit her lip.

“Well, I can’t just sit back and listen to others spreading slander about you,

Miss Victoria!” Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

Victoria was quite touched to see Yasmin getting furious on her behalf.

She never thought that her cowardly–seeming assistant had a dominant

side to her as well.

She let out a helpless sigh.

“It doesn’t quite count as slander.”

Yasmin’s eyes widened in disbelief. “What are you saying, Miss Victoria?”

“They’re not wrong. My family went bankrupt and we can’t be of help to

Alaric

“That’s not true…” Yasmin continued to defend Victoria. “You being in the

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company is the greatest help there is, Miss Victoria. With your capabilities,

any company would soar to even greater heights with you around. What

they’re saying isn’t true.”

“That’s enough.” Victoria cut Yasmin off and said, “Just get on with your

lunch. If you have so much energy, you might as well spend it on learning

the job.”

Since Victoria seemed completely unbothered, Yasmin didn’t want to

comment further, so she suppressed her anger and carried on eating.

Once they were done, Victoria and Yasmin walked through the crowd and

left. All the while, Victoria’s expression remained perfectly calm.

“Look at her acting as if she’s unbothered. It looks as if she doesn’t care

that Mr. Cadogan’s with another woman right now.”

“Tch. What do you mean she doesn’t care? But even if she does, would it

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matter? She’d still be abandoned anyway. She might as well keep her cool

and maintain her dignity.”

“I bet she’ll start crying her eyes out as soon as she gets back to her

office.”

The crowd at the cafeteria continued gossiping.

Alas, Victoria was about to disappoint them. When she got back to the

office, she didn’t have any time to wallow in tears and self–pity. She didn’t

even have time to dwell on these things that were supposed to upset her.

There was too much work and she was about to resign soon, so she had

to find someone to replace her.

Even though she didn’t plan on having anything to do with Alaric in the

future, he did help her during her time of crisis, so she wanted to have an

amicable separation.

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Therefore, the moment the two women got back to the office, Victoria

began assigning a lot of tasks to Yasmin.

Yasmin was shocked. “T–That much? What if I can’t finish everything?”

Victoria didn’t show her any empathy.

“You’ll have to stay late then.”

Yasmin kept quiet.

She dared not say anything, but she didn’t think that Victoria was being

hard on her either.

Victoria was the one who hired her and mentored her. When the

secretaries and assistants in other companies went out for business

meetings, they would have to drink on their superior’s behalf, and

sometimes, they might even have to bear the brunt of other forms of

harassment by’unsavory and immoral people at such meetings.

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However, she never experienced any of these things when she followed

Victoria around.

Initially, she assumed that the people who were too afraid to touch

Victoria would target her instead, and sure enough, the first time she went

to a meeting with Victoria, she was the victim of verbal harassment.

It was Yasmin’s first foray into the workforce and her first encounter with

such an incident, but as the other party was a client, she couldn’t show her

displeasure.

She was so mad that she turned scarlet, but she couldn’t say anything.

It was then that Victoria, who was sitting beside her, eyed the other person

coldly before stating, “If you’re not interested in discussing business, Mr.

Weasel then we won’t sit here and waste any more time.”

Victoria pulled a startled Yasmin up with her and left the hotel despite the

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The night breeze blew against them as Yasmin stared at Victoria in shock.

“I–Is it okay for us to just leave like that, Miss Victoria?”

Victoria glanced at her. “What should we be doing then? Do you want to

stick around?”

Yasmin fervently shook her head.

“N–No.”

“Exactly. Let’s go.”

Victoria flagged down a cab and left with Yasmin.

“When you work with me, you don’t need to hold back whenever you

encounter these things. Otherwise, these sleazy men will keep takina

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Therefore, in the time that Yasmin spent working with Victoria, she barely

had to suffer any grievances.

She knew that Victoria had to be giving her a mountain of work to do

because the latter wanted to train her up. I mustn’t let Miss Victoria down!

After cheering herself on, she threw herself into her work.

Knock, knock!

All of a sudden, there was a knock on the door. Yasmin looked up and saw

a pretty woman standing there.

She was wearing a white dress, and her long hair cascaded elegantly

down her shoulders.

“Hello, I’m looking for Miss Selwyn.”

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It’s that woman, Claudia Johnson–the one who stayed in the office with

Mr. Cadogan when Miss Victoria was having a fever, and the subject of the

latest company gossip.

Yasmin’s attitude was cold as she recalled how frequent Claudia’s visits to

the office had been, which resulted in Victoria being ridiculed for having

lunch at the cafeteria.

“Hello?” Claudia repeated when she didn’t get a reply.

Yasmin snapped out of her thoughts and responded curtly, “Do you have

a reason for wanting to see Miss Selwyn? She’s busy with work right now

and might not have time to entertain you.”

Claudia heard the hostility in Yasmin’s tone and her eyes flashed viciously.

She was just about to retort when a voice rang out.

“Come in.”

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When Claudia went in, Victoria was still busy with work. She looked up and

saw Claudia walking over with a lunchbox in hand.

“Are you swamped with work today, Victoria? No matter how busy you are,

you should still have your lunch. Since you didn’t come over, I set some

food aside for you.”

Claudia placed the lunchbox on Victoria’s desk.

Victoria stiffened and said, “Thanks, but I’ve already eaten.”

Claudia lowered her voice.

“You can’t be worried that I’d harm you, right? I won’t do something as silly

as that, Victoria. I just brought along some food for you.”

Victoria eyed her coolly.

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bring me lunch either. I’ll do as I said. You don’t need to keep such a close

eye on me.”

After a pause, Victoria pursed her lips and added, “If you’re so worried

about it, you can just keep an eye on your Alaric every day. I won’t be able

to get close to him if you do that, right?”

She didn’t want to get close to him anyway.

Claudia’s smile faded a little.

“Do you think I don’t want to? Unfortunately, I can’t enter Cadogan

Residence yet.”

“Oh,” Victoria remarked unhurriedly. “You can’t go in, but that doesn’t mean

you can’t tell him to come out, right?”