Tess Baker pushed him away with all her might and sniffled, “Bowen Carter, leave me alone! The one you have your heart set on is still alive, so why miss the real one because of me, the … stand-in?”
The word ‘understudy’ is extraordinarily difficult to say.
A while ago she was trying to convince herself not to bother with a ‘dead man’, and now this ‘dead man’ has come back to life!
God is really playing with her!
“I told you, Mrs. Carter will only be you!” Didn’t he say it clearly enough?
Tess Baker took a deep breath, “Bowen Carter, when you were in the hospital the other day, you were looking at pictures of Wendy Summer. Now she’s alive and you’re asking me to believe I’ll be the only Mrs. Carter, don’t you think that’s too much of a push?”
“I’ll prove it with my actions!” Bowen Carter looked at her red and swollen eyes, and a thorn seemed to be stuck in his heart. He had said he would never let anyone hurt her again, but he had made her cry one after another!
Tess Baker doesn’t want to argue with him anymore, his actions when he met Wendy Summer yesterday proved who he really cares about in his heart!
She grabbed her bag and wanted to go to the office.
But Bowen Carter followed her out the door.
“I’m going to the office, so please don’t follow me.” Tess Baker turned her head and tried to speak as calmly as possible. She was going to work and didn’t want to bring her messy love life with her!
Bowen Carter took her hand, “I’ll walk you.”
Before she struggled to refuse, he added, “If you don’t want your neighbors to come out and see the joke, let me drive you.”
Tess Baker glanced around at the several closed doors of the room and frowned as she swallowed her words of refusal.
The two went downstairs and got into an Audi.
Tess Baker sat in the passenger seat, gave an address, and then looked out the window.
She didn’t ask him where he got the car from, nor did she continue to lobby him to leave her … alone She knew him well, and what he had determined would never change.
The scenery outside the window kept receding, but none of it could enter Tess Baker’s heart.
She can’t stand the fact that Bowen Carter is having an affair with Wendy Summer, and she doesn’t have the power to make him let go of her, she doesn’t know what to do anymore!
The car soon arrived in front of the company.
As Tess Baker and Bowen Carter got out of the car, several young women came running up to them, one of whom said, “Oh my God, Boss Baker, it’s you! Is this your boyfriend? He’s so handsome!”
Tess Baker was about to say no when Bowen Carter spoke first, introducing possessively, “Hello, I’m Bowen Carter, Tess Baker’s husband.”
“Hello, Mr. Carter, I am Boss Baker’s staff!”
“Me too.”
“Me too.”
A few people looked at Tess Baker and then Bowen Carter with envy. They Boss Baker is simply too lucky to be married to such a handsome and noble man!
Tess Baker frowned, didn’t bother to explain, and walked straight towards the office building.
Several female employees look at each other, how the boss seems to be very angry look?
They didn’t dare say much, and after saying goodbye to Bowen Carter, they quickly followed behind their boss.
Bowen Carter watched Tess Baker enter the elevator before returning to the Audi and lighting a cigarette.
In the smoke, the once Lucia and now Tess Baker intertwine, and finally only Tess Baker’s bright and beautiful smile remains.
“Tess Baker …,” he murmured softly, exhaling a puff of smoke.
Before yesterday, he had never thought about choosing between Lucia and Tess Baker. But after yesterday, he realized that he only had Tess Baker left in his heart, and Lucia was just an obsession of his.
He wanted to know exactly how Lucia had survived the accident and why she was alive but hadn’t come to him.
But it never occurred to him to ditch Tess Baker and get back together with Lucia!
“Hello sir, you can’t park here, please move it.” The guard knocked on the door window and said in Mandarin with a B City accent.
Bowen Carter nodded, tossed the cigarette butt into an ashtray, hit the steering wheel and headed back to his villa in B-town.
…
The employees were surprised and delighted when Tess Baker suddenly returned to the company.
Several department heads hurriedly compiled the information for the last quarter and put it in her office, waiting apprehensively for her evaluation.
“I’m not a man-eating tiger, so why are you all so afraid?” Tess Baker looked at the trembling old partners and cried and laughed.
She never seemed to treat them harshly or deliberately pick on them or anything!
“You’re much scarier than a man-eating tiger!” One of the principals laughed, “One word from you can get us all out of here, not a tiger!”
There was a roar of laughter in the office.
“Go! Tell you guys to get lost, do I want the company to go out of business?” Tess Baker gave the person in charge who spoke a blank stare, the depression and aggression in her heart relieved after seeing her old pals.
Her family is the same as her enemies, while these old pals are the same as her family. Even if they are aggrieved, they are always happy to see their families!
A few of the other principals smiled and replied, reporting in passing on the progress of their work in simple language.
“Everyone did a great job! Just let everyone know: no one is leaving after work today, it’s my treat tonight!” Tess Baker is grateful to the employees who have been with her all the way. The company has grown from nothing to what it is now because of everyone working together!
Especially after so many ups and downs, she values the camaraderie with her old pals even more!
“Boss Baker is cool, those little buggers are going to be so happy now!”
“How about dozens of people, eat you poor!”
“First things first, Boss Baker you pay out of your own pocket, don’t come to me with an invoice for reimbursement!”
The last one to speak is the company’s chief accountant, who usually spends a penny of the company’s money, like eating a piece of his meat.
Tess Baker said, “OK, OK, OK, I’ll pay for it myself, not a penny from the company!”
Even she, the boss, has to be read by the chief accountant for more than half an hour every time she reimburses bills in her own company.
Several people exchanged pleasantries for a while and then went out, while Tess Baker stayed in the office to read the information handed in by several principals.
Near noon, the secretary of the head of the purchasing department knocked on her office door, “Boss Baker, your husband is here to bring you dinner.”
The young secretary tried to make a steady look, but still could not hide the envy and gossip in her eyes.
“Okay, I got it, you go ahead and get out.” Tess Baker’s pretty face wore a standard smile, but her fingertips, whitened by the tight clutching of her black signature pen, betrayed her emotions.
After the little secretary exited, the smile at the corner of her mouth immediately disappeared.
She rubbed her aching brow, her heart in turmoil … She didn’t want to see Bowen Carter!
Bowen Carter apologized and said she would be the only Mrs. Carter, but she didn’t believe her at all.
He had loved Wendy Summer for so many years, and even after he was forced to marry her, he was calling out Wendy Summer’s name every time he had sex with her after drinking! How could she believe that he would give up Wendy Summer?
A few months ago he fought to save her from kidnappers and even had a car accident to keep her.
At that time, she did shake in her heart and felt that he might have been sincere with her, but this feeling had a major premise – Wendy Summer was dead!
However, the truth is cruel, Wendy Summer did not die!