Mr. Chairman’s Devious Wife by Brey Mitchylle

Chapter 8

“I am on my way to the office,” Sofia said as she started her car. “I can’t talk

now.”

“Oh, then I am going to bring some lunch later. How does that sound?” Daniel asked. Sofia sneered inwardly. In the past, she would have had no problems with this. Now, she realized that Daniel would only volunteer to bring something during office hours when Charlotte was there.

Was Sofia actually this dumb?

No. She had been busy with everything else. She simply had no time to think about small things. “Of course,” Sofia hid the anger in her voice.

“Alright, love you. I’ll see you later.”

“Right,” Sofia ended the call and held the steering wheel, her grip tight. She did not even realize how that call affected her until she saw her white

knuckles.

It took her a few minutes to completely calm herself down to drive to LH

DESIGN.

Located in Springfield, Illinois, LH DESIGN is only one of the subsidiary

companies of LH GROUP.

Just two months ago, the CEO of LH DESIGN suffered a major health problem and is still in the hospital to this very day. Because of this, the board decided to have an Interim CEO, someone who would provide leadership during LH DESIGN’s critical time.

And Sofia was chosen to lead the company.

This was not a random choice or something born out of the fact that she was the heir of LH Group. This was because she was currently the Creative. Director of the company and had so much experience in both

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management and the production aspect of LH DESIGN itself.

Group refused. Since then, Sofia’s schedule has been very hectic. Since she became the Interim

those various gifts from all over the world. She made a mental note to immediately start a renovation next week. She could

Lockhart,” Sofia was greeted by Miss Amores the moment she walked inside LH DESIGN, located

had coffee,” Sofia smiled when Miss. Amores handed her a cup of coffee. “And breakfast,” she eyed the

Charlotte is in your office. She has been here for about an hour… she wanted me to call

“you.”

disturb her unless someone died. She had been working under Sofia for years and knew that Sofia would do something like this if

have a strategic planning after lunch and a briefing at three in the afternoon. I have all the things that you need to sign. Shall

her office. The bland black and white office greeted her. However, despite liking it, her mood was ruined when she saw

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Charlotte immediately pouted. “How dare you make me

awkward but knew it was useless. Her facial expression said it all. Moreover, unlike Charlotte, Sofia

blinked her large beautiful eyes. Today, Charlotte was wearing an all–white frilly dress that already made her look like an angel. Coupled with her pitiful eyes, the normal Sofia would have immediately smiled and

nothing was wrong.

Amores handed her and started reading their details. It was not

woman why she betrayed her. What the hell was she doing pretending to be good only

did something

the winter collection needs to be finalized. I have yet to have a good night’s sleep for a few days now,” Sofia faked a smile as she started signing some of the papers

it that bad?”

She also chose not to involve herself with LH Group when she decided

beautiful on the

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as its CEO and creative director at the same

I forgot

focused on the documents in her hand. “Hmmm… you just got

I arrived last night and I immediately tried

Sofia lied without batting an eyelid. Everyone knew that she would sometimes turn her phone off just to avoid distraction while making her designs. “Oh. Sorry…” she once again stared at Charlotte. “Did you come here for something? I- Miss Amores,

not set an appointment