Janice hesitated for a moment and said, "In fact, I originally thought that Mr. Shelton was with Emily on a whim. However, after recent observation, I found that the situation didn't seem to be like this."
"What's that?"
"Every time Mr. Shelton calls Emily Welch by her first name, he calls her in an intimate way. When you aren't around, Emily sits on Mr. Shelton's lap sometimes. And Mr. Shelton will look at her with affection in his eyes and speak to her in an affectionate tone. Sometimes, he treats her more affectionately than he does to you..."
What Janice had said made me nervous all of a sudden.
"Is that so?"
"Could it be that Shelton does fall for Emily Welch?"
But I trusted Janice and knew that she wouldn't lie to me.
I lowered my eyes slightly and smiled faintly, "I am glad to hear that. In that case, I can give up my title at any time. If he indeed finds someone he likes, I will congratulate him."
In fact, Emily was better than me.
At least, Emily didn't have someone she loved in her heart. As long as Shelton treated her well, in my opinion, she would treat Shelton wholeheartedly.
Sensing that whatever she said, I was unmoved, Janice stopped saying anything more, sighed, and left.
Lying on the bed, I fell asleep after a long while.
The New Year Holiday was over in the blink of an eye.
Originally, I wanted to leave Glenn at home, asking Lacy to look after him. But he insisted on seeing Cicely. I had no choice but to take him with me and went to Nancy's home.
After that, Nancy and I went to the studio together.
Standing at the door, a few workers were installing a logo of the studio on the wall. Paulina stood on the side.
In the car, I had agreed with Nancy that we should give the only staff in our studio, Paulina, some lucky money. Seeing her at this moment, I took out a red envelope directly from my bag and handed it over to her with a smile, "Happy New Year."
"Wow." Paulina pinched the red packet and said excitedly, "I didn't expect that I would get a red envelope. Thank you both, goddesses!"
We waited for the workers to finish installing the logo. It was the first day of the New Year. We originally thought it would be a leisurely day.
So we planned to go shopping, buy some clothes, and so on later.
We sat down and made a cup of coffee. However, before we could be leisure for long, the doorbell rang unexpectedly.
Paulina went to open the door. Soon, we heard a voice coming from outside, "Excuse me, is it Swallowtail Butterfly Studio?"
"Yes, yes," Paulina responded while letting the speaker outside in.
Nancy and I stood up at the same time.
A woman wearing a professional suit and glasses in her thirties came in. Upon seeing us, she bowed slightly and said, "Hello, my surname is Whelan. I saw your introduction in an internal furnishing magazine."
"Nice to meet you."
Hearing this, Nancy and I immediately went over to greet her.
After a few greetings, we roughly understood that the lady surnamed Whelan planned to run a teahouse and happened to see our information in a magazine. Then she saw Nancy's and my resumes on our official website. So she came here soon after the New Year Holiday was over.
Nancy and I invited her into the conference room. Paulina served her with a glass of water.
We started to talk about the specific details.
Speaking of which, it should be considered the first formal project after our studio was founded.
After a while, Paulina pushed open the door once again and poked her head in. Looking at me with a complicated expression on her face, she said, "Janetta, someone is looking for you."
"Looking for me?"
Who would come to find me here?
Paulina smiled wryly and nodded, "Someone is indeed looking for you. Come out quickly."
Nancy said, "You can go. I'll talk to Mrs. Whelan."
"Okay."
I got up and went out with doubts all over my mind.
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