He looked at me with pure contempt. “You, a graduate from some lousy foreign university, if it weren’t for Dahlia, you’d still be picking trash off the street!”
“Now the company asks you to make a small sacrifice, and you start dragging your feet? I’m telling you, if you don’t sign today, once the partners start asking questions and my mom finds out, no one will be able to save you!”
No one had ever spoken to me like that before. And somehow, my MBA from Stanford had turned into a lousy degree in his mouth.
Anger surged through me. I grabbed the cup of hot coffee beside me and, without thinking twice, threw it straight at Reid’s face.
“Ah!” Reid screamed, clutching his face in pain.
The office fell into chaos as everyone turned to stare at me. Whispers spread through the room.
“He’s President Larson’s fiancé who just came back from abroad? He’s got guts!”
“Offending Young Master Reid the moment he arrives, he’s out of his mind.”
“It’s over for him. He’s finished for sure.”
If I hadn’t known that my parents had always been close and had never spent more than a day apart, I might have actually suspected that Reid was my mother’s illegitimate son.
Until now, I hadn’t really taken a good look at him, but when I did, there was something strangely familiar about his face.
Reid wiped the coffee from his face with tissues, his hands shaking with anger.
“Weston Jensen, are you crazy?! Do you even know what you just did?!”
I looked at him coldly. “Of course, I know what I’m doing. I’m teaching a lesson to someone who made a mistake but still refuses to take responsibility.”
“You! Do you even know who I am?” Reid yelled.
I gave a faint smile. “I don’t care who you are. To me, you’re nothing.”
Just then, Dahlia walked in. When she saw Reid’s messy appearance, her face instantly darkened.
Ignoring me completely, she hurried over to him, holding his face with both hands, her eyes filled with worry as she checked him over.
“Reid, are you alright? Does it hurt anywhere?”
That soft, gentle tone, she had never once spoken to me like that. Even when I had a fever, all she said was, “Drink more hot water.”
Reid looked up at her with tears in his eyes and said in a trembling voice, “Dahlia, my face hurts so much. Did Weston really want to ruin my face?”
Then, without warning, he buried himself in Dahlia’s arms.