"You?" Timothy raised his eyebrows as he looked at her. Then he sneered, "How could you be capable enough to get the whole PR fired? I don't buy it anyway."
Amelia was dumbfounded at that. "You mean, not just you, but all the members of the PR... have been laid off?"
Timothy nodded with resignation. "Well, it is our fault. We've wasted the company so much money and still had the audacity to complain about the finance department. Forget it. Let's stop talking about those unhappy things. I come here to ask if I meant it, would you be my girlfriend?"
The topics was changed too abruptly!
After a short while of surprise, Amelia was about to say no when she heard a cold snort behind Timothy. "I don't agree!"
Looking at Patrick, who suddenly popped out at the sales department, and coupled with his answer, everyone gave an l-just-knew-something-is-going-on-between-them look. They even stopped counting their year-end bonus and started to listen intently to the romantic confession Patrick was going to give to Amelia.
Turning around, when Timothy saw that the one speaking was Patrick, he was startled before quickly calming himself down and saying, "I am no longer an employee of Roxxon, and you are no longer my boss. I don't need to obey your orders anymore!"
Patrick narrowed his eyes. "That is to say, you insist on courting Amelia?"
"Uh-huh, "Timothy answered.
Amelia could feel the childlike nature of Timothy from his frivolous attitude. Timothy didn't truly want Amelia to be his girlfriend. Instead, he just wanted to retrieve his reputation from the earlier embarrassment.
"Amelia, come here," Patrick ordered all of a sudden.
Amelia knew that it was her chance to demonstrate her attitude and promptly went from Timothy to stand two steps away from Patrick.
Was it coming? Many were waiting for Patrick to confess his love for her...
Patrick reached out to hold Amelia's shoulders and brought her into his arms. He pulled out a shining diamond ring from her collar with one hand and said to Timothy with his lips curled up, "Sorry. This woman has already registered marriage with me. She is not only my woman but also my legal wife!"
All the employees in the sales department were dumbfounded at that!
Timothy stared at the diamond ring on Amelia's chest, and his heart almost stopped beating!
Doris and others who were not good at handling such huge news were so shocked that they reached out to nip themselves. After making sure that she was not dreaming, Doris nipped herself again...
Now Doris wished she had been dreaming. As for the reason, there was no doubt that Amelia's status had quickly risen to a whole new level beyond her imagination.
Doris had been thinking that it was great enough that Patrick favored Amelia, not to mention they being in a relationship. But now, what did just Patrick say to them?
He had personally announced that Amelia was his wife! In other words, Amelia was the rich mistress of the most famous family in Northville!
It was so mindblowing at the thought that her bestie had been suddenly declared to be such an exalted figure!
"Amelia, did I mishear it?" Doris almost cried.
Recalling that she had mentioned in front of Patrick that Amelia was such a good match for Milton and that she had even set Hobart up with Amelia, Doris wanted to rush to Patrick, kneel and beg him to
forgive her for being so ignorant!
"How long are you going to gape? Take out your phone and take pictures!" Someone reminded.
"But... would Mr. Hopper be unhappy if we take photos without their permission?" Someone asked.
The one who proposed taking pictures replied confidently, "They have kissed in front of us, which means that they want it to be public. If we take photos now, we're spreading the news for Mr. Hopper and Amelia." "Well, it makes sense." After the kiss, their interaction had been captured in a series of photos. As expected, Patrick was not enraged at it. He just rubbed Amelia's rosy cheek with his finger and said slowly, staring at her eyes, "Most of the members in your department are women. You should be the one to explain the rest of our story to them."
If Patrick stayed, he was sure to be pestered to death by these women.
After that, he let go of her and turned to head upstairs.
Amelia touched her still-warm lips and turned her gaze at her coworkers. When she found that none of them was bombarding her as they had done in the past, she was a little nervous. She wondered if they would forgive her for hiding it from them.
"Um... the reason I didn't tell you about my marriage at the beginning was... I don't want to bother you at work."
There was no response.
Amelia lowered her head and said, "Well, it's my fault. We've agreed to be honest with each other, let alone hiding anything. If you're mad at me, blame me as you like!"
Finally, someone talked. Colleague A asked hesitantly, "Amelia, how did you know each other?"
Colleague B also asked excitedly, "Right, Amelia, you can't just register marriage all of a sudden, right? You've been working in Roxxon for so long, but Mr. Hopper has just come back from abroad this year. The time doesn't seem to match up."
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