Lifting an arm, Rose sent a slap across Nancy's cheek.
Slap—
Everyone present froze at the sharp sound of the slap cut through the room.
Cupping the burning skin of her cheek, Nancy glared unquestionably at Rose. "How dare you slap me?"
Sean Bell was evidently shell-shocked.
Despite the glaring distaste he held for his sister, Nancy Bell, Sean still tried his best at pretending to embrace this woman as his sister. Shutting his eyes to Nancy's bouts of tantrums for the sake of keeping up the gentle and elegant facade he put up before the Bell elders.
It had never crossed his mind that Rose Loyle would avenge him so resolutely for something he had resigned himself to endure.
It felt great!
However, in the face of a duo with special identities, Sean could not help but worry about the consequences Nancy was to face.
"You saw, right Sean? Your assistant slapped me! I'm telling Daddy." Nancy bawled as she ran off.
Sean's expression darkened at his sister's threat,
knowing Nancy's act of bringing it up to their father would only destroy a good amount of the newly rebuilt trust he had hard-earned.
Rose Loyle reassured, at the sight of Sean’s troubled expression, "Don't worry. I'll talk to the Chairman and apologize personally."
Looking at Rose Loyle, Sean understood her expression of utter confidence as a side-effect of her hard-headedness and kindly remarked, "You don’t get my father, a man with nothing but unadulterated adoration for Nancy and her mother. You might as well have offended him personally by slapping Nancy today. I don't even know if I can keep your job, Rose. You need to get out of here, it’s for your own good!"
How could Rose Loyle just leave when she had put so much effort into working for Bell Enterprises?
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