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.

she became the Interim CEO, she

in her flat with just those various gifts from all over the world. She made a mental note to immediately start a renovation next week. She could simply use that as a reason to remove

was greeted by Miss Amores the moment she walked inside LH DESIGN, located on the top floor of

Miss Amores. I already had coffee,” Sofia smiled when Miss. Amores handed her a cup of coffee. “And breakfast,”

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

“you.”

someone died. She had been working under Sofia for years and knew that Sofia

afternoon. I have

walked inside her office. The bland black and white office greeted her.

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immediately pouted. “How dare you make me

had something…” Sofia tried to stop herself from acting awkward but knew it was useless. Her facial expression said it

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

nothing was wrong.

accepted the papers that Miss Amores handed her and started

hell was she doing pretending

did something happen?”

coming, and the winter collection needs to be finalized. I have yet to have a good night’s

that

Charlotte is not exactly a Lockhart, she has no right in the company. She

lifted her gaze and stared at Charlotte’s angelic face. How could someone look so kind and beautiful on the outside yet have that rotting

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company as its CEO and creative

I forgot

on the documents in her hand. “Hmmm… you

arrived last night and

had to finish some designs,” 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, did you forget to tell me about any appointment

Miss Charlotte did not set an