Filed to story: My Husband Regrets Divorcing Me (Audrey & Cornell)
“Ouch!” Audrey frowned in pain.
“What did you do that for? Are you out of your mind?”
It was lunch break and many employees were free to watch the drama.
Tessa was even more complacent when she saw growing onlookers.
She put on a mean-girl look as she said, “What makes you so smug every day, huh? Do you seriously think that others don’t know you are just a bastard without parents? The nerve of…”
A crisp sound was heard all of a sudden.
Tessa was silenced by a hot slap to her face.
Her jaw dropped to the floor. She had never expected that Audrey, who was so quiet and timid, would slap her.
Tessa held her cheek and stared blankly for a while. Then, she stuttered, “You… You hit me? How dare you!”
Audrey eyed her and replied, “Yes, I did! It seems you need to be taught simple politeness.”
Indeed, Audrey lost her parents when she was a child. But that didn’t mean she would allow someone to walk over her for it.
Wrinkles appeared on Tessa’s face as she frowned in anger. As Cornell’s cousin, she was used to being fawned over and respected.
This was the first time she had been treated like this.
“You bitch!”
Tessa charged at Audrey Like a raging bull, raising her hand up high to return the slap.
This time, Audrey was fully prepared for what was coming. She grabbed Tessa’s wrist so tightly that the latter couldn’t move another inch.
Tessa was shorter than Audrey. As a result, Tessa struggled like an octopus that had one of its tentacles stuck in a fishing trap.
Tessa cursed angrily, “How dare you put your filthy hands on me? Who the hell do you think you are? You are nothing but Cornell’s toy.
You are worse than a prostitute who fucks many men!”
These harsh words attracted more people to the break room.
“That’s enough!”
Out of the blue, a baritone came from behind. Cornell had left his office and ran into this hullabaloo.
The entire room fell silent.
“Cornell?” Tessa’s blood ran cold at the sight of Cornell. She had always been scared of him. Her mother also warned her against provoking him.
But when she remembered that Audrey slapped her, she put on a pitiful expression and sobbed.
“Cornell, look at my face. She slapped me.”
The sunlight from outside fell on Cornell’s handsome face.
Audrey felt so grieved all of a sudden, and lowered her head to Look at the back of her arm which was scalded by the coffee.
Their gaze met in the air. With a deep frown, Cornell looked at Audrey and said, “Audrey, have you forgotten the rules of the company?”
His ruthlessness made Audrey’s breathing cease. She couldn’t believe her ears.
No one dared to make a sound at this moment.
Audrey just stood straight there with her slender figure.
When she got employed here, Cornell had told her that the Clement Group wasn’t a place for her to mess around and that he would not tolerate her making any mistakes.
Audrey could understand why he took this stand.
However, at this moment, she was desperate to know whether Cornell had heard those hard words Tessa scolded her or he was just pretending not to have heard because he agreed to those words.
Did he really see her as a tool for his pleasure?
Scared to death by Cornell’s rage, the crowd soon dispersed. A few employees were bold enough to peep from a distance, unwilling to miss the good show.
Cornell’s cold eyes made Audrey shiver from head to toe.
Audrey pinched her palm to suppress her emotions as she looked at Tessa.
“I’m sorry, Ms. Lloyd. As an employee of the Clement Group, it was wrong of me to have hit you.”
Eyeing Audrey, Tessa raised her chin complacently.
“Humph! Don’t think you’ll be let off the hook just by making a simple apology. I don’t buy…”
“The slap has nothing to do with the company. Personally, I refuse to apologize to you. Now, if you’d excuse me,” Audrey chimed in.
She then walked past Cornell without sparing him another look.
“You… You bitch!”
Tessa’s face turned blue after hearing what Audrey said.
Never in her years of being alive had she been so humiliated. She was always the bully, not the victim!
The humiliation was so much that tearing Audrey into pieces now wouldn’t appease her anger.
Pointing in Audrey’s direction, Tessa shouted, “Cornell, did you hear what that woman just said? She slapped me in the face, yet she’s still so arrogant. Call her back. I have to slap her until she cries for mercy!”
Cornell, staring at Audrey’s thin back, had an ambiguous expression at this moment.
“Enough!” he said coldly, raising his hand.
As someone who lived and breathed drama and cruelty, Tessa didn’t think Cornell was partial to Audrey just now. She assumed that Cornell didn’t care about Audrey at all.
Tessa gritted her teeth and said viciously, “Next time, I’ll get someone to teach that bitch a lesson.”
“Tessa!” Cornell’s tone and squint made it a reproof.
Tessa trembled at once.
With a somber face, Cornell said, “I’ll only say it once. Forget about what happened here today. Leave Audrey alone.”
The aura he exuded made her tongue go dry. All the vicious ideas she had in store against Audrey disappeared in an instant.
She stammered, “Ok… Okay, got it…”
Cornell cast a cold glance at her and spoke to Matteo.
“Irrelevant people wouldn’t be allowed in here from today onwards.”
Without catching the drift, Tessa flattered Cornell.
“Nice call. This is a top company. Not everyone gains access in here.”
Matteo nodded to Cornell and then walked over to Tessa. He gestured to the exit.
“Ms. Lloyd, this way, please.”
It wasn’t until this moment that Tessa realized that she was the irrelevant person Cornell just mentioned. She tried to speak to him, but Matteo blocked her way. The security guards then threw her out.
They showed her no mercy. Her struggle was useless.
Meanwhile, Audrey got changed when she returned to her office.
Her heart was filled with sadness as she thought of how Cornell looked at her minutes ago.
Closing hour soon rolled by.
Audrey took her bag and headed for the exit. However, Matteo stopped her.
He said, “Mr. Clement has something urgent to deal with, so he asked me to drive you home.”
Audrey declined the ride without thinking twice.
She was blind before, but now she could see through the situation.
In Cornell’s eyes, she was just a nobody.
How could Cornell agree to accompany her to visit her grandmother when he didn’t even care about her?
Upon arriving at the hospital, Audrey saw that the nurse was about to feed her grandmother dinner. Audrey took the job over and did it by herself.