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.

LH Group refused. Since then, Sofia’s schedule has been very hectic. Since she became the Interim CEO, she had not had any date night with Daniel, and he would only drop by

that there was anything wrong with this. She liked those gifts and even had a wall 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

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

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

She has been here for about an hour… she wanted me to

“you.”

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

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

nodded as she walked inside her office. The bland black and white office greeted her. However, despite liking it, her mood was ruined when she saw the smiling Charlotte.

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“How dare you

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

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

nothing was wrong.

sat on her chair. She accepted the papers that Miss Amores handed her and started reading their details. It was not her intention to ignore Charlotte, but a part of her

hell was she doing pretending to be good only to stab her in the back? However, this was not

something happen?” Charlotte

meeting is coming, and 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

that bad?”

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

on the outside yet have that rotting heart on the inside? Sofía smiled. “This is the

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as its CEO and creative

right… I forgot

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

night and

off just to avoid distraction while making her designs. “Oh. Sorry…” she once again stared at Charlotte.

Charlotte did not