Departure with a Belly (Alaric and Victoria) novel Chapter 47

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In the end, after staring at Victoria’s unaffected expression, Yasmin 

reluctantly took her seat. That being said, she couldn’t help but vent her 

dissatisfaction as she bit her lip and fumed, “Didn’t you hear what they 

said, Miss Victoria? They went too far! I wish I could rip their tongues out.” 

“And?” Victoria asked calmly. “Start a fight just over a few words they said? 

What will they say next? Is it going to be that not only was I forced to eat 

lunch at the cafeteria, but I even got into a fight with the other employees 

at the cafeteria because they hit a raw nerve?” 

Yasmin frowned. 

“That wasn’t my intention, Miss Victoria.” 

“I know that, of course, but do you think you can accomplish anything by 

confronting them? Regardless of whether or not you fight back, there’s no 

way for you to control what comes out of someone else’s mouth.” 

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Yasmin bit her lip. 

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“Well, I can’t just sit back and listen to others spreading slander about you, 

Miss Victoria!” 

Victoria was quite touched to see Yasmin getting furious on her behalf. 

She never thought that her cowardly–seeming assistant had a dominant 

side to her as well. 

She let out a helpless sigh. 

“It doesn’t quite count as slander.” 

Yasmin’s eyes widened in disbelief. “What are you saying, Miss Victoria?” 

“They’re not wrong. My family went bankrupt and we can’t be of help to 

Alaric 

“That’s not true…” Yasmin continued to defend Victoria. “You being in the 

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company is the greatest help there is, Miss Victoria. With your capabilities, 

any company would soar to even greater heights with you around. What 

they’re saying isn’t true.” 

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“That’s enough.” Victoria cut Yasmin off and said, “Just get on with your 

lunch. If you have so much energy, you might as well spend it on learning 

the job.” 

Since Victoria seemed completely unbothered, Yasmin didn’t want to 

comment further, so she suppressed her anger and carried on eating. 

Once they were done, Victoria and Yasmin walked through the crowd and 

left. All the while, Victoria’s expression remained perfectly calm. 

“Look at her acting as if she’s unbothered. It looks as if she doesn’t care 

that Mr. Cadogan’s with another woman right now.” 

“Tch. What do you mean she doesn’t care? But even if she does, would it 

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matter? She’d still be abandoned anyway. She might as well keep her cool 

and maintain her dignity.” 

“I bet she’ll start crying her eyes out as soon as she gets back to her 

office.” 

The crowd at the cafeteria continued gossiping. 

Alas, Victoria was about to disappoint them. When she got back to the 

office, she didn’t have any time to wallow in tears and self–pity. She didn’t 

even have time to dwell on these things that were supposed to upset her. 

There was too much work and she was about to resign soon, so she had 

to find someone to replace her. 

Even though she didn’t plan on having anything to do with Alaric in the 

future, he did help her during her time of crisis, so she wanted to have an 

amicable separation. 

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Therefore, the moment the two women got back to the office, Victoria 

began assigning a lot of tasks to Yasmin. 

Yasmin was shocked. “T–That much? What if I can’t finish everything?” 

Victoria didn’t show her any empathy. 

“You’ll have to stay late then.” 

Yasmin kept quiet. 

She dared not say anything, but she didn’t think that Victoria was being 

hard on her either. 

Victoria was the one who hired her and mentored her. When the 

secretaries and assistants in other companies went out for business 

meetings, they would have to drink on their superior’s behalf, and 

sometimes, they might even have to bear the brunt of other forms of 

harassment by’unsavory and immoral people at such meetings. 

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However, she never experienced any of these things when she followed 

Victoria around. 

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Initially, she assumed that the people who were too afraid to touch 

Victoria would target her instead, and sure enough, the first time she went 

to a meeting with Victoria, she was the victim of verbal harassment. 

It was Yasmin’s first foray into the workforce and her first encounter with 

such an incident, but as the other party was a client, she couldn’t show her 

displeasure. 

She was so mad that she turned scarlet, but she couldn’t say anything. 

It was then that Victoria, who was sitting beside her, eyed the other person 

coldly before stating, “If you’re not interested in discussing business, Mr. 

Weasel then we won’t sit here and waste any more time.” 

Victoria pulled a startled Yasmin up with her and left the hotel despite the 

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The night breeze blew against them as Yasmin stared at Victoria in shock. 

“I–Is it okay for us to just leave like that, Miss Victoria?” 

Victoria glanced at her. “What should we be doing then? Do you want to 

stick around?” 

Yasmin fervently shook her head. 

“N–No.” 

“Exactly. Let’s go.” 

Victoria flagged down a cab and left with Yasmin. 

“When you work with me, you don’t need to hold back whenever you 

encounter these things. Otherwise, these sleazy men will keep takina 

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Therefore, in the time that Yasmin spent working with Victoria, she barely 

had to suffer any grievances. 

She knew that Victoria had to be giving her a mountain of work to do 

because the latter wanted to train her up. I mustn’t let Miss Victoria down! 

After cheering herself on, she threw herself into her work. 

Knock, knock! 

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All of a sudden, there was a knock on the door. Yasmin looked up and saw 

a pretty woman standing there. 

She was wearing a white dress, and her long hair cascaded elegantly 

down her shoulders. 

“Hello, I’m looking for Miss Selwyn.” 

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It’s that woman, Claudia Johnson–the one who stayed in the office with