The Best Revenge It Wasn't Even Your Child novel Chapter 700

On their way out, Catherine politely stopped a passing janitor and asked them to clean up the spilled juice.

The entire room watched as she calmly led Celine into the elevator.

The second the doors slid shut, Celine ripped her arm away, tears of frustration welling in her eyes.

"That wasn't my fault! Why did you make me apologize to her?"

"Because she is Lance's 'ugly ex-fiancée' you were just talking about," Catherine replied flatly.

That apology was the least Celine owed her.

Celine stopped breathing, her eyes practically bugging out of her head.

"Professionally, she is a manager at the Lee Group. She outranks you. Taking the fall now saves you a lot of grief when you inevitably have to work with her later," Catherine explained patiently. "Personally, you accidentally hit her deepest insecurity. You did owe her an apology."

She looked at her young assistant. "The corporate world is full of people. If you want to survive and thrive here, the very first thing you need to learn is how to read a room. And you have to understand that things are rarely what they seem on the surface."

Celine's mind was racing. She had literally sat right in front of Adelina and called her ugly. She wanted the floor to swallow her whole.

"Go touch up your dress, tell Dane we are leaving, and meet me at the car," Catherine said as they stepped into the lounge. They both wiped off the sticky juice and fixed their makeup.

"I have to go back down there?" Celine groaned. "She just called me a pig in front of everyone! I am so humiliated!"

Catherine smoothed down Celine's hair. "You are going back down there, and you are going to walk with your head held high. You apologized. I explained clearly that you were bringing her food. No one with half a brain is going to take her unhinged insults seriously."

After a solid pep talk, Celine finally gathered the courage to head back to the banquet hall.

About five minutes later, Catherine's phone buzzed with a string of voice notes from Celine.

Her voice was buzzing with excitement, all the previous despair completely gone.