My Wasted Husband Is in Power, Now! novel Chapter 42

Prestigious families had always been strict about the principle of seniority-based hierarchy within the family.

Elie was Hailey's younger cousin. Yet, she openly requested that Hailey ferry her around like a chauffeur, right in front of everyone!

Elie had already begun to think of herself as the future wife of the president of Ace Corporation, so she had already developed a sense of superiority over the rest of the Camdens.

She felt that Hailey would have to rely on her in the future.

However, Hailey had always been prideful and arrogant, so she obviously couldn't tolerate such humiliation!

Hailey refuted furiously, "I'm swamped! I don't have the time to send you there!"

After saying that, she turned around and left the villa.

She then drove off in her car resentfully.

Being a poor driver, to begin with, she accidentally drove into a tree.

Fortunately, her car was not severely damaged since she was driving slowly, and she did not suffer any injuries.

"Ugh, this is so infuriating and annoying!"

Hailey slammed both her hands against the steering wheel repeatedly as tears flowed freely from her eyes non-stop.

In a fit of anger, she hurriedly whipped out her cell phone to give Jordan a call.

At this time, Jordan was still at the office, and it surprised him to see that it was a call from Hailey.

"Hello."

Jordan waved his hand at Ashley, signaling for her to leave his office, after which he answered the call.

Hailey questioned emotionally, "Jordan, let me ask you something. Since you pretended to be the person who gave my grandmother that bracelet for her birthday, why didn't you keep pretending?"

"Why did you tell Uncle Herman and Elie the truth!?! Do you know how badly embarrassed you caused me to be in front of my family?"

Jordan thought that Hailey had called to apologize to him, but he didn't expect to be questioned about that matter.

In fact, Jordan had never changed his statement, and he had been telling the truth all this while.

The bracelet was a gift from Jordan Steele and also a gift from the president of Ace Corporation.

Well, it was because Jordan was the president of Ace Corporation.

Jordan had clearly told the Camdens about his real identity, but they had been looking down on Jordan and were too stuck-up to believe him.

Jordan said coldly, "I'm swamped. I don't have the time, nor am I in the mood to care about whether you were embarrassed or not. If there's nothing else, I'll hang up now."

Jordan had already divorced Hailey, so her affairs had absolutely nothing to do with him!

The only thing Jordan wanted to hear was an apology from Hailey and nothing else!

"Wait a minute!" Hailey hurriedly exclaimed. She continued in a mellower voice, "I called you because I need a favor from you."

"I don't want Elie's relationship with your boss, Mr. Steele, to develop too well. Elie will be going to the office building of Ace Corporation this afternoon. She's developed a penchant for black tea lately, so serve her a cup of black tea laced with laxatives so that she'll get the runs."

"Alternatively, pretend to accidentally rip her dress when she walks past you. You're so strong, she won't suspect you."

Ashley shook her head and explained, "That's not the case. Mr. Steele said that you're too gorgeous, and he might get distracted by your beauty and forget about work if he discusses the contract with you."

"So, he'd like someone else from your family to meet him instead." "Someone else?" Elie was a little dejected at first, but she was dumbstruck and pleased with his reason for refusal.

"Did Mr. Steele really... compliment my beauty? Does he... know what I look like?"

Elie blushed coyly.

Ashley nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Steele follows your account on TikTok, and he watches your videos all the time."

Elie was even more conceited after hearing that. 'Mr. Steele is indeed one of my admirers!'

Elie said, "Well then, I think it's not a good idea to talk to Mr. Steele about work on our first meeting either. I'll have someone else from my family replace me then."

"Um, Miss Rose, please tell Mr. Steele that he may ask me out for some coffee or to the movies whenever he's available."

Ashley answered, "I'll definitely relay your message to him."

Seeing that there was quite a massive change in Ashley's attitude towards her, Elie said, "Walk me to the elevator."

"Yes!"

Ashley did as she was told.

Seeing that there was no one else around, Elie whisked out a wad of cash from her Louis Vuitton embroidered purse and shoved it to Ashley.

"Send me a picture of Mr. Steele!"