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Chapter 342
Charles arrived shortly within half an hour after his phone call with Cedrick, followed by the staff in the
security department.
When the security department employees saw Catelyn with Cedrick and noticed that she had Cedrick’s
jacket, everyone gaped at the sight.
Since the entire building was still in progress with a security upgrade, they could not open the electronic
lock until the upgrade was completed.
Cedrick glanced at Catelyn before he gave them the order to destroy the lock on the door. The process
of breaking the lock was quick and only took a few minutes, but the entire door would need to be
reinstalled the next day.
When Catelyn heard the sound of the lock being disassembled outside, she was overcome by a bad
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtpremonition that this would trigger waves of gossip in the office tomorrow.
However, as Cedrick had already given the order, she could not stop them in any way.
Once they exited the building, Cedrick took Catelyn to a restaurant right away. He had noticed her
stomach rumbling a few times when they were stuck inside the office. Since she had been working
overtime in the office, she must have been starving.
The next day, Catelyn arrived at the office an hour early without having her breakfast to work on the
uncompleted data analysis. She managed to complete it and placed the report on Jennifer’s desk before
finally heading out for breakfast.
To her bewilderment, she returned to the office after breakfast only to hear rumors of her being stuck in
the office with Cedrick going around the entire company. On top of that, the details of the rumor were far
more outrageous than the previous rumors concerning her and George. No one knew where the rumor
started, so everyone came to ask Catelyn if she had truly spent the night with Cedrick.
There were even people asking if Cedrick had suggested anything to her when they were alone at night.
Catelyn simply maintained a fake smile and brushed them off.
Jennifer arrived at the office from the top floor. She seemed to have been summoned for questioning and
appeared extremely pale.
Her eyes glittered with disgust when she walked over to Catelyn. Without mentioning a word concerning
work, she glared coldly at Catelyn and questioned her about the gossip. “Did you do that on purpose?”
“Did what on purpose?” Catelyn retorted.
“You knew that the security system in the office would be upgraded last night and the power would go
out. You stayed behind to work on purpose so that Master Cedrick would see you.
That way, you can show him how hard-working you are and point the blame on me for bullying new
employees! On top of that, you’d get a chance…to seduce Master Cedrick!” Catelyn was utterly confused
as she listened to Jennifer and was stunned at her final sentence
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmthat sounded all too accusing. She did not know Jennifer held such unreasonable prejudice toward her.
“I’m not as sly as you picture me to be,” Catelyn argued. “Truth is, I didn’t receive any notice and wasn’t
aware that the power would go out last night. I only worked overtime because you said that the analysis
was wrong. I’m just as clueless as to why Master Cedrick was in the office at the time, so how am I
supposed to plot to run into him?”
“Do you think I’m going to believe that?” Jennifer sneered. “I saw with my own eyes that the admin
department had distributed a notice regarding the security upgrade to every employee’s desk in the
afternoon the day before yesterday. How can you not know? Are you blind or something?!”
“You…”
It then dawned on her why she did not see the notice; the notice was given the day before yesterday.
She was about to explain that she had gone out to dine with George but hesitated as everyone knew that
Jennifer was in love with George. Just as Catelyn contemplated her answer, a man raised his voice
behind her.
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