Gloria watched Loren's face as she spoke.
As she mentioned Black Card, she saw guilt in Loren's face.
He knew he's guilty now?
But it was too late.
Seeing Gloria looked frightened and did not seem to be pretending, Loren felt a little embarrassed. He said, "You won't tell him about the Black Card yet, will you?"
Gloria sneered in her heart. At this point, Loren still didn't want to give the Black Card back to her.
Although she thought so, she looked more and more frightened.
She pinched her leg quietly, as the pain brought tears to her eyes. Then she blinked hard, and her tears welled up.
Gloria broke down in tears, saying with sobs. "Kenny only lent it to me, and I'm going to give it back to him, so if I don't tell him, he'll find out sooner or later..."
As if she thought of something terrible, Gloria cried even harder. "You don't know how terrible he is. He's a devil, and he'll never let me off...."
When Gloria began to cry, she could not help herself, and she realized that she was so good at pretending to cry.
Maybe she could get into the entertainment business.
Loren was already upset, while he pretended to be friendly with Gloria because he needed her help. Now that he saw her crying all the time, he's even more upset.
"Don't cry!" Loren yelled at her angrily.
Gloria stopped crying immediately, and as she was crying so hard, she belched.
Loren looked at her with a little more disdain. A fool was a fool. Even if she looked pretty and smarter, she was still as useless as ever.
He thought that Kenny was wholly attracted to Gloria, and that's why Gloria got the Black Card from Kenny, but he didn't realize that it's only for temporary use.
Gloria also felt a little ashamed of herself; she didn't want to cry like that, whereas she just cried too hard.
Loren asked, as if with some great resolution. "What if I could find the Black Card?"
"Can you get it back?"
Gloria looked pleasantly surprised, but that soon disappeared, she smiling miserably. "How can the Black Card be found again? I don't even remember what the two kidnappers looked like..."
Loren watched Gloria's face calmly. When he was sure that she knew nothing about Tina's kidnapping, he said while frowning, "I'll find a way."
…
After leaving Loren's office, Gloria went to the bathroom and washed her face.
It's a good thing she didn't make up today; otherwise, it would be embarrassing to appear in front of others with messy makeup.
After washing her face, she found that her eyes and nose still looked red from crying.
She was crying too hard.
When she returned to her seat, her colleague next to her saw her, asking her with concern. "Gloria, what's the matter?"
Gloria shook her head. "I'm fine."
Her colleague next to her did not ask any more questions, but another colleague of Gloria, who had seen Loren's secretary come to look for Gloria, whispered. "The president asked her to come and see him."
"What does the president want with her?"
"I don't know. Maybe it's about the factory, because she's married to Kenny, so the president wants to see her to ask her to go to Kenny for help..."
"…"
Gloria listening in silence, she thought the people in the Project Department were competent because they could even guess this.
As for what they said afterward, Gloria did not hear very well. She did vaguely hear, "went too far... How could the president do that..." words like that.
Gloria felt a little curious. She wondered what her colleagues were imagining.
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