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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said, “Then… congratulations?”

she was 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. I’ll always be in

after the

she become one of Isla’s pawns?

she pondered, a WhatsApp

Mrs. Olsen. She was calling “Dr. South” on WhatsApp.

on her phone, picked it up, and

changed

made her understand that some things were

unwelcome relatives.

South, sorry for the disturbance. I’m Isla Olsen, the daughter of Jodie South. I am calling on

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their R&D team. My mother also

Keira interrupted

halted. She wanted to say something more, but Keira said, “I only take responsibility for companies under Mrs. Olsen’s

she hung

Monday.

the old lady and dutifully went

whether to take a taxi or the

looked straight ahead, saying

in.”

don’t think I should

on such

“Grandma asked me to

non iust tall her

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“I need a

“Fine…”

and sat next

and took a selfie of the two

them.

her two fingers raised

smile.

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

a moment.

moment. He didn’t recall old Mrs. Horton

before they left.

have

Keira sat up straight and started busying herself on

two remained silent until they reached the underground

exclusive elevator and

took

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the R&D department.

of the R&D department were in a tense

company’s top

issues of the R&D

asked, “Why is this announcement

sudden?”

be our technical support in the R&D department. This is 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 President Horton to communicate with him and solve the problem. Now,

and spoke directly, “From now on, the research and development staff of the first and second teams have to listen to my commands.

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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

enough energy to manage the staff of the first team. Have you solved your core problem yet? Although the R&D department is divided into teams, it’s also a whole. Your delays affect the progress

how difficult the research is. You make