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…

as if 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.

twitched after the phone call.

she become one of Isla’s pawns?

WhatsApp call

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

on her phone, picked it up, and

changed by a

Finley made her understand that some things

unwelcome relatives.

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

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R&D team. My mother also wishes for the same. May

interrupted

but Keira said, “I only take responsibility for

she hung up.

Monday.

left her puppy with the old lady and dutifully

take a taxi

straight ahead, saying indifferently, “Get

in.”

think

such good

asked me to drive you to

her you did that”

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her, “I need

“Fine…”

and sat next to Lewis.

and took a selfie of the two of

them.

fingers raised and a

smile.

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

a

seat, Tom hesitated for a moment. He didn’t recall old Mrs. Horton

before they left.

have missed it.

sat up straight and started busying herself on

reached the underground parking lot of the Horton

exclusive elevator and left with

hand, took the

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the R&D department.

managerial staff of the R&D

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

technical issues of the R&D

is this

sudden?”

in the office, if any of you have any problems, you can ask Vice President Horton to communicate with him and solve the problem.

staff of the first

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the company and had pulled two all-nighters, was wearing casual clothes with an air of irritation.

face darkened, “Mr. Riley, I see you don’t have enough energy to manage the staff of the first team. Have you solved your core problem yet? Although the R&D department is divided

renewable energy, so you should know how difficult the research is. You make