The Abandoned Wife Dumped Him First (Victoria and Elias) novel Chapter 185

At the Design Department's Team Three office.

First thing in the morning, Sunny Lewis was slumped over her desk, looking pale as a ghost and yawning repeatedly.

Suddenly, a bag of cranberry cookies appeared in front of her.

She shot upright and looked up at Victoria, who was just settling into her own chair. “Victoria, did you make these?”

Victoria nodded. “I baked them a couple of days ago and toasted them again this morning. Give them a try. If they’re not good, just toss them.”

Before she had even finished her sentence, Sunny had already torn open the bag and popped a cookie into her mouth.

Seeing her eat so eagerly, Victoria felt a pang of nervousness. “…Well?”

Sunny gave her a thumbs-up. “Delicious! Victoria, I had no idea you were so talented!”

Victoria let out a small sigh of relief at the compliment. Her gaze drifted to the bag of cookies, and her thoughts uncontrollably went back two days. When she had left for work that morning, she saw her neighbor had taken the cookies. She had assumed their interactions would lessen, but when she returned that evening, another bag was hanging on her door.

This time, it wasn't cold medicine. It was a thermos of pear soup and another note:

[Thanks for the cookies. It gets dry in the winter. Pear soup is good for the lungs.]

Victoria stood outside her door holding the note for a long time, only snapping out of it when she heard Dawn meowing from inside. She took the thermos and went in.

That night, she baked more cookies and left them for her neighbor along with the cleaned thermos.

This time, however, two whole days passed and no one took them.

“Victoria? Victoria!” Sunny called out her name several times without a response before gently nudging her shoulder.

Victoria blinked, a flash of confusion on her face. “What?” she asked instinctively.

“What are you thinking about so deeply?” Sunny handed her a cookie. “The deadline for the Midlake Estates proposal is in a few days, isn’t it? How are your designs coming along?”

Victoria felt the warmth of the cookie in her palm. “Mhm,” she murmured. “The deadline is 4 PM today. I’m going to give the draft to Ms. Donald when she gets in.”

“Feeling confident?” Sunny asked in a whisper, glancing at the closed door of the associate director's office nearby.

“I'm pretty confident.”

Having worked with Victoria for over two years, Sunny knew her style. It meant she was extremely confident in her design and had a very high chance of winning the project.

“Looks like Team Three is about to get a new associate director!” Sunny rubbed her hands together, looking even more excited than Victoria. “I’ve been waiting for this day!”

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