Very soon, Rosa arrived at the door of the office with Ivy and Rachel. Instead of going inside at once, Bonnie knocked at the door first, “Ms. Suny, Mrs. Murray, and Ms. Rachel are here.”
“Come in, please.”
Ivy stood by the door and watched Rosa, wondering why Rosa would be so humble to Suny since they were sitting at the same table.
While Ivy was absent-minded, Rosa had pulled the door open. “Please come in, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Rachel.”
Ivy came back to reality and walked inside.
“Mrs. Murray. Ms. Murray.” Suny raised her eyes to look at them and smiled.
“Rosa, please make two cups of tea here.”
“Yes. Ms. Suny.”
Ivy was totally confused about how Suny and Rosa were getting on with each other. But she wasn’t here to pry and gossip today. She lifted her hand to take the gift, which she had prepared in advance, out from her purse and put it in front of Suny. “Ms. Suny, it was our fault that day, in any case. But we didn’t mean to hurt you. Rachel is so clueless that she said things like that to you because she has been holding the grudge of the vase last time.”
Ivy then waited for Suny to answer. But Suny simply stared at them with a smile on her face and didn’t plan to say anything at all.
The smile on Ivy’s face subtly changed, and she had to continue, “We’re here today to apologize to you. This is a small gift that I prepared for you. It isn’t something fancy but it shows our sincerity.”
After she had finished talking, Ivy looked at Rachel next to her.
Rachel glanced at Suny and said, “Ms. Suny, I didn’t really mean it by saying things like that. I wasn’t using my brain when I blurt it out. Never mind it.”
Suny smiled, “It’s very kind of you, Mrs. Murray and Ms. Murray. For what happened that night, I'd rather not take it to heart.”
She then fixed her eyes on the gift box on the desk, and raised her brows, “Apology accepted. As for the gift, I think I’d better not take it, in case people take me as a vulgar woman who has never seen something great.”
By no chance that Ivy couldn’t understand the sarcasm.
A few years ago, Rachel and her friends teased Suny with the exact words. And they didn’t expect that Suny still remembered it as years had passed by. At the moment, resentment mixed with embarrassment overwhelmed Rachel, but she tried to calm herself down. Just remember, they weren’t here to quarrel but apologize to her today. So, Ivy played dumb and said, “I should have known that Ms. Suny has tons of such little gadgets already.”
Ivy took back the gift box. Right at that time, Rosa came in with tea but Ivy and Rachel weren’t in the mood of enjoying it. “Ms. Suny, you must be very busy and we’d better let you get back to work. We should hang out sometime.”
Suny smiled and didn’t intend to persuade them to stay. Instead, she paid a glance at Rosa and said, “Rosa, please walk the guest out for me.”
Rosa put down the tray and stood up to walk them out, while Suny just stood there without moving a bit all the way. Actually, they could have felt better if Suny simply refused to meet them at the very beginning.
Both Ivy and Rachel knew it clearly that they had no choice but to walk out of the office with a smile on their face even if Suny had scolded them today, otherwise, everything they had done was in vain.
At the gate of Phantom, Elijah had arranged for some journalists to “take the photos secretly”. Ivy and Rachel came out 'smiling'.
Soon enough, the article that Ivy and Rachel apologized to Suny in person had been released on the internet. Of course, people probably didn’t expect there was a follow-up of the story.
But what Murrays did was not for others but for those they knew in J City.
After the news of the apology had spread over on the internet, the Murray Family didn’t regain their good reputation all at once, but gradually some people began to stand out and speak for them.
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