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 had not had

in her flat with just those various gifts from all over

greeted by Miss Amores the moment she walked inside

handed her a cup of coffee. “And

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

“you.”

instructed Miss Amores not to disturb her unless someone died. She had been working under Sofia for years and knew that

and a briefing at three in the afternoon. I have all

office. The bland black and white office greeted

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“How dare you

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

eyes. Today, Charlotte was wearing an all–white frilly dress that already

nothing was wrong.

her and started reading their details. It was not her intention

doing pretending to be good only

did something happen?”

have yet to have a good night’s sleep for a few days now,” Sofia faked a smile as she started signing some

it that bad?” Charlotte

exactly a Lockhart, she has no right in the company. She also chose not to involve herself with LH Group when she decided to

and beautiful on the outside yet have that rotting heart

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CEO and creative director at the

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

last night and I immediately tried to

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

Miss, Miss Charlotte did not set an appointment

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