My Accidental Husband is a Billionaire

34 Nonsense

Isla’s eyes widened in disbelief as she stared at her

mother’s phone.

She wouldn’t mistake that voice!

The voice on the other end of the phone paused

slightly, then it turned colder still. “Isla, what are you doing with Mrs. Olsen’s phone?”

It was her!!

Isla felt as if she had seen a ghost.

No, it couldn’t be…

She glanced at her phone sharply, suddenly thinking of something. She asked, “Is this your phone number?”

Keira said, “What kind of question is that?”

That’s when it dawned on Isla!

She almost forgot that Keira’s nickname was also South, which was what Mrs. Olsen would sometimes

call her.

A tremendous sigh of relief escaped her lips, followed by boundless fury. “You’re such a sycophant! To get my

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mother’s favor, you even put her family name in your nickname. Are you worthy of being called that?”

Keira lowered her eyes.

The name was something she had chosen when she was in elementary school.

“South” indeed came from the surname of Mrs. Olsen,

aka Jodie South.

Keira was young at the time and chose it simply because she liked it, never thinking about whether it

would bother Mrs. Olsen.

She was the daughter of a mistress, yet she adopted the wife’s last name. Keira wondered what Mrs. Olsen

felt at the time. She would never know now.

She said indifferently, “Did you call just to say this?”

“Of course not!” Isla tore off her mask of decency and said viciously, “I just want to tell you, even if you’ve charmed Mr. Horton through old Mrs. Horton, you’re nothing more than a mistress and a toy! Mr. Horton is a married man! I’m different though. I’ll marry Jake and become a legitimate daughter-in-law of the Horton

family!”

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“Then… congratulations?”

punching cotton. She left a threat in the end. “You can’t just talk about feelings in a wealthy family. I have connections with Dr. South.

twitched after the

become one of Isla’s

she pondered, a WhatsApp call came in

it was from Mrs. Olsen. She

picked it

voice was changed

some things

unwelcome relatives.

I’m Isla Olsen, the daughter of Jodie

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like to invite you to join their R&D team. My mother also wishes for the same. May

interrupted her coldly.

said,

that, she hung up.

Monday.

old

contemplating. whether to take a taxi or the subway, a Bentley slowly stopped

ahead,

in.”

refused, “I don’t think

on such good terms

“Grandma asked me to drive you to work.”

tall her you did that”

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“I need a

“Fine…”

back door and

took a selfie of the two of

them.

with her two fingers raised and a

smile.

head, and a few strands of hair fluttered across Lewis’s face, leaving

for a moment.

He didn’t recall old Mrs. Horton making this request

before they left.

have missed it.

photo, Keira sat up straight and started busying

the underground parking lot of the Horton

the exclusive elevator and left with

took the staff elevator up

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the R&D department.

the R&D department were in a tense meeting.

R&D department announced a position change. “After the decision of the company’s top management, Jake, the team leader, is

issues of the

“Why is

sudden?”

a big deal for the R&D department. Although Dr. South doesn’t work in the office, if any of you have any problems, you can ask Vice

on, the research and development staff of the first and second teams have to listen to my commands. Mr. Riley, I

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at the company and had pulled two all-nighters, was wearing casual clothes with an air of irritation. He snorted coldly. “There’s another regulation at the company that doesn’t allow skipping ranks for reporting or assigning tasks. So, about my staff… you can only delegate tasks through

first team. Have you solved your core problem yet? Although the R&D department

energy, so you should know how difficult the research is. You make it sound like you can solve