After Bella and Quintin returned to the hotel where they were staying, she said with a gloomy face, “I won’t stay here. You’d better arrange for someone else.”
“Can you give me a reason why you won’t stay, except to take care of your aunt?”
“Why did you have to let me stay? Isn’t there a single one of the thousands of people in the Gold Group who is fit to be sent there?”
“Haley, this cooperation is really important both for me and for Kevin. If we succeed, we can open up the overseas market. In the early stage of product development, every aspect is extremely confidential. If we arrange for a random person to be bribed by another company and leak the company’s secrets, then all our efforts will be in vain. Besides, as I said, you are the only one who can represent me and nobody is better suited to offer advice than you.”
“How do you know I won’t be bribed by someone else? Maybe I’ll be tempted if someone else makes a generous offer. Everyone likes money!”
Quintin laughed unconcernedly, “It’s indeed true that everyone does not like money, so then you marry me? Marrying me would be a better deal than selling company secrets, which only makes you get a limit check, but marrying me would be like getting a perpetual check, which is absolutely infinitely overdrawn, okay? Think about it.”
Bella was a little dizzy. How did he involve the issue of feelings? She rolled her eyes, “I wouldn’t consider it! Can’t I just resign?”
“Fine, I’ll be shadowing you all day if you quit, and I’ll tell people which company you work for that you’re mine so they won’t hire you. If you can endure it then you quit.”
“You’re despicable!”
Bella was originally angry, and this time she was being threatened by Quintin, and she was going crazy.
“Is this also despicable? Would you like me to demonstrate in action what is truly despicable?”
Quintin said and was about to lower his head to kiss her when she panicked and backed away, saying depressingly, “Okay, stop it. My aunt really needs to be taken care of.”
He cried and laughed, “You only have one reason all day long. Can’t you find any other reason other than that?”
“It’s not a reason but a fact.”
As soon as Bella finished, the phone in her pocket rang and when she saw that it was her aunt calling, she immediately answered, “Hello, aunt?”
“Bella, how was your business trip for the last two days?”
“Well, I’m fine. How about you?”
“I’m fine too. Mr. Stock has arranged a nanny for me. He simply took care of me too well. You don’t have to miss me but work well there. It’s the only way to repay Mr. Stock’s kindness.”
“Auntie!!!”
Bella stared in shock, having never thought that Quintin would make the first move and take care of her aunt!
“Okay, that’s it. You take care of yourself. I’m hanging up.”
“Hello? Aunt? Hey, hey, wait a minute!”
Mika didn’t wait for her niece to finish and hung up the phone. Quintin walked to Bella with a smug face, “How’s it going? The only reason is gone, so listen to me.”
Bella took three deep breaths before holding down the anger, “You win.”
She walked angrily towards her room, and Quintin followed her, “Oh my god, it’s just two weeks,. It’s not like I’m letting you stay here forever. I really don’t want you to stay here forever, and I’m not willing to do so.”
“Maybe I’ll just stay here for the rest of my life!”
Bella entered the room and slammed the door, shutting out Quintin.
The next morning, Quintin was going back to F City. Before leaving he sent Bella to LoveBella Group and said to Kevin, “Mr. Jones-Sharp, I left my capable special assistant behind. You have to take care of her a bit more.”
Kevin nodded faintly, “Yes, I will.”
“Then I’ll go back. There’s a bunch of things waiting for me to go back and solve on the company side. I’ll come back when I’m free.”
“I’ll see you off.”
Quintin came to Bella and quietly said, “Don’t be angry. When this cooperation is a complete success, I’ll give you a big credit and will compensate you properly.”
“Who cares about you compensating?”
Bella angrily looked away.
“Alright, I’m leaving. Can’t you just smile at me? I can’t feel at ease to leave if you look like this.”
Quintin was rascally, “Smile, please? Quick, smile. Kevin is always watching from the side.”
Bella sighted askance at Kevin, and suddenly, somehow showed a gentle smile at Quintin, “Is it okay?”
Quintin was flattered and nodded repeatedly, “Yes, yes, your smile is so charming.”
“Hurry up and go.”
“Okay, then I’m leaving. Be sure to take care of yourself.”
Kevin had been standing at the door, calmly watching the two of them whispering, looking cold, but having mixed feelings in his heart.
After sending Quintin away, Kevin returned to his office, seeing Bella sitting on the sofa, having mixed feelings at once, and walked straight over, “Come with me.”
Bella followed him to a certain office on the same floor. The door opened, and there were more than ten people sitting inside. Kevin introduced, “This is the partner’s representative Miss Finger, and she will be responsible for this new product development with you. In the next two weeks, I hope you all get along harmoniously and strive to achieve excellent results with the cohesion of unity. ”
Kevin looked askance at her, “Say a few words briefly.”
Bella bowed politely, “Hello everyone, it’s a pleasure to be partners with you. I would appreciate your guidance if there’s anything I don’t understand.”
The office erupted with welcoming applause. Kevin introduced, “This side is our newly established special R & D group. Until the new product development is successful, it is a department that is isolated from the outside world, so other than you and these colleagues here, no one else is allowed to enter your office. Likewise, you are not allowed to reveal half a sentence of product development information to the outside world. ”
“Got it.”
Bella nodded with feigned composure.
“Then get to work. I will come over from time to time to discuss with you guys.”
After Kevin left, Bella sized up the colleagues around her, and none of them were known to her, and likewise, no one knew her true identity, which was definitely a good sign for her. At least, she could complete the tasks given to her by Quintin as Haley.
After a whole day’s work, at the end of the evening, Lily came to the R & D Special Team office, “Miss Finger, Mr. Jones-Sharp has asked you to come over.”
Bella was actually a bit flustered when she faced Lily because this girl knew her true identity.
“Okay.”
She simply cleaned up and carried her bag to the CEO’s office. Standing in front of Kevin’s desk, she asked with a blank expression, “What’s the matter with calling me over?”
“You’re staying in a hotel now, aren’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Then you can move out. We have an apartment near the office that’s reserved for account reps.”
“No, I’m fine in a hotel.”
“The product development only begins, and in about three days you’ll need to work late every night. It’s inconvenient for you to live in a hotel.”
Bella thought for a moment and accepted his proposal.
The customer apartment was just a five-minute walk from the company, and the conditions were not worse than those of the hotel. When she moved in, she went to the nearby supermarket to purchase a bunch of household goods, ready to live two weeks of closed life. The reason why he agreed with Kevin to move into the apartment was that she didn’t want to always wander outside and bumped into familiar people. After all, there were many people who knew her in this city.
As Kevin expected, after the third day’s work officially, the R & D began to become busy. Everyone worked overtime until 10 o’clock that night and was dizzy, but no one dared to relax because Kevin also worked overtime in the detachment. The CEO did not feel tired, so the staff didn’t dare to.
“Let’s take a break.”
Although Kevin was usually indifferent, he treated his employees with kindness and would not force them to work for him nonstop.
As soon as everyone heard that they could take a break, they stretched themselves. Some got up to go to the bathroom while some got up to drink water, and in less than a minute, the people in the office were gone, leaving only Bella and Kevin.
Bella was very awkward because Kevin joined them and she gave herself wholly to her work. Until the surrounding was quiet, she realized that only they were left in the office, so she stood up and was ready to go out.
“Bring me a cup of coffee.”
When she reached the door, the hoarse voice of Kevin was suddenly heard in her ears, and she looked slightly to the side to see that he was still immersed in his work, so she walked out without saying anything.
After a break of about ten minutes, everyone entered the office one after another, and Bella put a cup of coffee in front of Kevin and sat back in her seat.
They were back into a tense working state, and by twelve o’clock, Kevin announced, “Off duty.”
“Yeah!!!”
The group stood up and cheered, and the leader of the R&D team joked, “What if we’re all hungry, Mr. Jones-Sharp?”
The corners of Kevin’s lips rose slightly, “Let’s go, my treat.”
“Yeah!!”
There was another cheer. Everyone was happy except for Bella.
Since it was already late at night, many restaurants had already closed, and after having a look at a 24-hour Northeast food restaurant, the R&D team leader said, “Let’s go eat Northeast food. It’s not bad to get a lamb pot on such a cold day.”
“Yeah, let’s go.”
The group of people entered the restaurant one after another. The restaurant owner greeted them warmly and introduced the shop’s signature dishes, the R&D team leader asked Kevin, “Mr. Jones-Sharp, what are you eating?”
“You guys order it. You can order whatever you like. Help yourselves.”
Bella was also a little hungry She had dinner early and also ate less. But when she saw the waiter bring up the dishes, she almost had no appetite. Those were some dishes that she did not eat, dog meat, lamb …