Filed To Story: Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel
Bursting into laughter, Queenie replied, “Mr. Gilmore, it’s all good.”
When Nigel realized that she was amused by another man, he felt a little jealous. “Julian, I’ll hang up first. I have something to do.” After saying that, he decisively hung up the call.
Meanwhile, Queenie’s gloomy mood had vanished like rain clouds after a storm. She then asked him, “Have you eaten breakfast?”
“My stomach is empty!” he answered, sounding aggrieved.
“How about I treat you to breakfast?” She offered generously.
“I’m sorry for last night. I vow to not lie to you ever again.” Immediately after saying that, he made a vowing gesture. “I’m willing to swear with my life.”
Then, Queenie covered his lips with her hand. “I believe you.”
Grabbing her hand, Nigel placed a kiss on the back of it. “As I anticipated, my darling is concerned about me.”
“Who’s your wife?”
“You, of course!”
“We’re not even engaged yet.”
“That’s just a matter of time.” He was very confident in that.
When Queenie looked at the time, she immediately pushed the man beside her and urged. “I need to rush to a meeting. Get out.”
“I won’t. I’m going to the company with you.”
“But your car is here!”
“I’ll hail a cab back here to retrieve it later.” Subsequently, Nigel fastened his seatbelt quickly.
He wanted to stay with her longer so that he could lessen the guilt he felt for her. This incident was all because of his stupidity, and if he had told her the truth back at the restaurant, he would have been able to invite her over and introduce her to his mother.
Had that ever crossed his mind, all of this would not have happened.
“How about we do it this way? We’ll take your car, and you’ll be my driver for the day, sending me on and off work.”
“Sure, that won’t be a problem. I’ll even pay for your entire day’s meals.” Nigel wished nothing more than to stick himself onto her like gum.
Queenie burst out laughing while watching his enthusiasm, especially when he decided to follow Bonnie’s ridiculous request to kneel and ask for her apology. No matter what, she was very satisfied with his performance today.
The two alighted from the car and walked out of the courtyard. On the other hand, Bonnie had already returned to the balcony upstairs and was peeking at them from behind the curtains. When she saw the two getting off Queenie’s car and ascended Nigel’s car instead, she was shocked for a moment and stomped her feet in frustration.
How can they reconcile so quickly? The worries she had before finally returned. If she could not break Queenie and Nigel apart, her future situation would become highly problematic. Also, watching Queenie head to the family’s company every day gave her a sense that the company would end up in Queenie’s hands in the future, so that made her very anxious as well.
After Queenie descended Nigel’s car at Silverstein Enterprise, he wanted to head inside with her when she refused, saying that she needed to attend a meeting soon and had no time to entertain him.
“If that’s the case, I’ll find a nearby cafe to spend my time at. I’ll be waiting near the entrance of your company at 11.30AM,” he proposed. Nothing beats making my girlfriend happy for the whole day.
With that, Queenie subsequently went up to her office while Nigel found himself a nearby hotel to rest at and deal with the hilarious rumor regarding him and Julian. He was determined to have those two reporters make a public apology. Not only that, the media company that published the article had to compensate for his and Julian’s losses, as well as never appear on the Internet again. Ever.
However, the one who suffered the most from this was Julian. For many years, he had kept himself rumor-free, and the first romantic rumor he had was with a renowned, rich young master like Nigel. Not only did that cause an uproar among his fans, but his anti-fans and rival companies were also all eagerly trying to ruin his reputation.
Due to this, his company sent out several legal letters and made an example of the more active anti- fans. His lawsuits were not just for show as those whom he had sued were all convicted, which was why all the anti-fans and rival companies became quiet after a few hours as they lacked the courage to offend Julian anymore.
One had to know that Julian was not just a male celebrity. He was the second heir of Gilmore Corporation, had uncountable assets, and was a genuine nobleman.
Meanwhile, Queenie exited her office and walked toward the meeting room with a cup of coffee in her hand. Since Brandon had heard from his wife about Queenie’s relationship problems with Nigel, he was worried about her mood today. However, he looked over and saw his high-spirited daughter in her seat, seemingly in a good mood.
As such, he could not help but wonder, Does Queenie not have feelings for Nigel anymore? Did they break up just after one night? Then, he recalled the news he had just received, which was regarding the Manson Group.
Allegedly, Manson Group had just withdrawn an outsourcing service, which was landscape maintenance, and it happened that Silverstein Enterprise had been developing a landscape construction project in recent years. In other words, their two projects were compatible for collaboration.
However, all of Manson Group’s outsourcing services were something every large corporation competed to obtain. Companies like Silverstein Enterprise, which had just begun their landscape construction services, would not stand a chance against their competition.
Brandon only found out about this project from the client last night and had gone home thinking he could use his daughter’s connections to get it! Yet, he did not expect to come home and hear from his wife that his daughter had gotten into a fight with Nigel and that they were about to break up.
Therefore, he woke up early today and contacted many people just for this project. At this point, he had almost lost all hope.
If Nigel truly broke up with Queenie, their chances of landing this project would be slim to none.
“Alright. Let’s begin our meeting.” Brandon coughed lightly before announcing, making all the higher- ups in the room quiet down. Meanwhile, Queenie was a little distracted by her situation with Nigel. It seemed like it was true when they said quarreling could make a couple grow fonder of each other.
“I just got news about a cooperative project last night, and it’s one of Manson Group’s outsourcing landscape projects. Although we have many competitors, we should still give it a try and see if we can succeed,” Brandon suggested.
“Mr. Silverstein, our chances are slim. According to what I know, every renowned landscaping company is competing for this project. What’s more, we don’t have the advantage to compete with them!” one of the higher-ups spoke up sullenly.
“That’s right! Although it’ll be very advantageous for us to win this project, we can’t do anything about it!”
After listening for a bit, Queenie turned to Brandon. “Dad, when did they announce this project? Why didn’t I know about this?”
“I only found out about this last night, so I’m asking everyone to come up with a strategy. Queenie, you don’t have to be involved in this. We’re just going to give it a shot without harboring much hope of landing it.”
“Mr. Silverstein, I think we’re just wasting our efforts, so why don’t we just give up on this matter?”
“He’s right! Why should we waste our efforts on something impossible?”
“How do you know we won’t succeed if we don’t try?” Queenie felt confident while looking at the gloomy faces of the higher-ups.
“Miss Silverstein, it’s not that we aren’t confident, but—”
“Leave this matter to me,” she stated firmly.
“Queenie, I think we should forget about this! I don’t want to put you in a difficult situation.” Brandon sighed. If getting this project meant Queenie would have to disregard her dignity and be hurt again after confronting Nigel, he would rather give up completely on it.
“Dad, believe me. I will successfully land this project,” she told her dad.
Meanwhile, the higher-ups in the room thought that she was such a good ‘scapegoat’ to take on the impossible task. Of course, she would not get scolded even if she failed, anyway.