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…

“You can’t just talk about feelings in a

twitched after the phone call.

she become one

pondered, a WhatsApp call

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

her phone, picked it up, and

voice was changed by a device.

made her understand that some things

unwelcome relatives.

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

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you to join their R&D team. My mother

interested,” Keira interrupted her

but Keira said, “I only take responsibility for companies under Mrs. Olsen’s

she hung up.

Monday.

left her puppy with the old lady and dutifully went to work.

she stepped out of the hospital gate, contemplating. whether to take

ahead, saying

in.”

refused, “I don’t think I should do that.”

on such good terms

“Grandma asked me to drive

non iust tall her you

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need a photo for

“Fine…”

and sat next to

his phone and took a

them.

posed with her two fingers raised and

smile.

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

for a

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

before they left.

have missed

Keira sat up straight and started busying herself on

reached the underground

took the exclusive elevator and left

took

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the R&D department.

the R&D department were in a tense

of the company’s top management, Jake, the team leader, is promoted to the

for the technical issues of the R&D

is

sudden?”

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, let’s have

stood up and spoke directly, “From now on, the research and development staff of the first and second teams have to listen to

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weekend 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

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

difficult the research is. You make it sound