“Jingle Bells …”
A piercing alarm bell broke the otherwise quiet morning, and a few seconds later, a long, slender, clean hand reached out from under the covers and turned off the alarm clock.
After a few more minutes, Dolly Dean rubbed her sleepy eyes and began the routine of getting up, washing up, and eating breakfast.
There were no words along the way.
Dolly came to work at the company and started her daily work. Since she came to her cousin’s company, she has been working hard, and although she did not have any impressive performance, she did not make any mistakes.
“Hello, this is Hurricane Limited, how can I help you?” The company’s landline rang, and Dolly skilfully picked up the phone.
“Hello, this is Kirkland Group …” After some talking, Dolly hung up happily.
I finally got a big order too, work hard, I will do better and better, Dolly thought with joy.
After calming down her joy, she got up and prepared to rush to Kirkland Group, where she had to go immediately to the head of Kirkland Group to discuss the details of the order before anything went wrong.
After arriving at Kirkland Group, Dolly went straight from the elevator to the 33rd floor, looked at the door sign in front of her with the word office written on it, took a deep breath and knocked on the door of the room.
“Please come in.” A low, mellow voice came from inside the office.
Dolly froze when she heard the voice, which gave her a familiar feeling for no reason, and pushed the door in without thinking.
“Hi, I’m Dolly Dean from Hurricane Limited,” she began as soon as she entered, introducing herself, not noticing that the man at the desk, who had his head down on business, had stopped moving at the sound of her name.
Dolly, who hadn’t noticed anything, was still talking to herself: “I came here to discuss the specifics of this cooperation with you, please …..”
Dolly suddenly froze as the person in front of her raised her head at that moment, and imprinted into her eyes was a face that she had missed and knew to her bones.
Brayden, the man she would never forget until her death, the experience with him, has long been deep in the marrow, she loved him, but had to push him away, the thought of this, she suddenly found it difficult to even breathe.
“How could it be you?” Looking at the person in front of her, Dolly let out a dreamy murmur.
“How come it can’t be me?” Brayden Kirkland spoke up, his voice no longer gentle and mellow, with a piercing edge, “If it isn’t Dolly Dean, I wonder what you want to do at my company?”
“I… I’m here to talk to you about business.” She stammered her words, her tone full of overwhelm.
“Talking about business? And do you know who the person you’re talking business with is?” Brayden sneered, “I think Miss Dean remembers me. It doesn’t matter if you don’t, you’re usually so concerned with yourself that you don’t care about others.”
Dolly stood there dumbfounded, her pretty face without a trace of blood at the moment, staring intently at Brayden, her eyes full of complexity.
The more Brayden talks, the more he gets excited, and watching Dolly’s panicked and helpless look gives him a sense of revenge.
“By the way Miss Dean, where is that person you like? Where is your boyfriend? After all this time, I think there’s been more than one change.”
Brayden’s words were like a knife, mercilessly stabbed into Dolly’s chest, she had countless fantasies of reunion with him, but did not expect to meet the result is this, aggrieved tears filled her eyes, she hurriedly lowered her head, do not want Brayden to see her wretched.
The list is no longer important to her now, she just wants to leave now. Just about to put it into action, the door to the office was slowly pushed open.
In came a sultry woman dressed up with orange hair, gaudy lipstick and a short mini skirt. A beautiful looking woman with just a slightly raised eyebrow, showing that she is quite a scheming woman.
“Brayden, there’s a guest in the office.” As the whispering voice rang out, the owner of the voice was then affixed to Brayden’s body.
“An old friend.” Brayden’s voice was not salty, but he took the woman into his arms and kissed her on the cheek demonstratively.
The sultry woman’s heart blossomed, she didn’t know why Brayden, who had previously treated her indifferently, was suddenly like this, then she looked triumphantly at Dolly, who was still keeping her head down, she extended her hand and said sweetly, “Hello, my name is Leyla James, I’m Brayden’s girlfriend.”
Dolly looked up in shock and met Leyla’s equally surprised gaze.
“Dolly! Why it’s you, what a coincidence. What brings you here?” Leyla greeted enthusiastically, a touch of disdain and arrogance swept under her eyes, but it was quickly covered up by her.
Leyla, Dolly’s best friend in college, whose father is a famous jeweler in City M. Although the James Family is very rich, Leyla treats people warmly and is not a bit of a lady when she is with anyone, especially to Dolly. Of course, this is only Dolly’s wishful thinking.
“Leyla, I didn’t expect to see you here, I’m here to see Gu … Mr. Kirkland about a business deal.” Dolly forced to hide the sadness inside herself and smiled.
“That’s right! By the way, Dolly, this is my boyfriend oh, Brayden is very good to talk, you can try to say anything oh.” Leyla took Dolly’s hand with a warm smile on her face.
She is his girlfriend? Yes, a man as good as him is only worthy of a girl like Leyla who is beautiful, kind and from a good family. She thought silently, accompanied by a bitter smile.
“Thank you, Leyla, Mr. Kirkland and I have almost finished negotiating, so I’ll leave you guys alone, we’ll talk about it some other time, I’ll go first this time.” Dolly did not feel happy to see her best friend from college, but wanted to leave quickly as a thief.
“Mr. Kirkland, this is our cooperation in terms of some specific matters, you take a look, any comments or suggestions can be put forward, we will have special personnel to contact you.” As a company employee’s sense of responsibility prevailed over Dolly’s complicated feelings at this time, she handed the contract to Brayden with a stiff head.
Brayden did not have the slightest intention of taking the contract, he just looked at Dolly coldly, looking at the woman who had left him in spite of his bitter pleas and desperation, his heart was no less complicated than Dolly’s.
He should hate her, ah, why look at her helpless face, he actually inexplicably some heartache. No! She abandoned him, so why should he help her! Thinking of this, Brayden suddenly rose up with a nameless fire.