Chapter 969 The Consequences
Rylan’s face darkened. He didn’t even bother to hide the contempt and disdain in his eyes when he coldly looked at her, disgusted by her bitchy ways. “What do you want?”
Selene sneered. She still remembered vividly how arrogant he was just a few minutes ago. And now he was there. She felt the pleasure of winning and intentionally put on a haughty posture.
However, Rylan had no patience for her. He gritted his teeth and said, ” Don’t dance on my nerves. Get up now, or NEVER. You know what I mean.”
The threat worked well. His cold gaze reminded Selene of that day and made her stomach sink. She dared not to rechallenge him cause she knew he was a maniac. He might kill her. Honestly, if it were not for his grandpa, people would be attending her funeral now.
She had goosebumps at the thought of this, got up from the bed, and packed her things.
Rylan picked her up at the hospital and sent her to the company in front of the staff. It created quite a stir in the company. Everyone thought Selene was going to be kicked out after messing with Rylan. But somehow, she was not kicked out. Instead, she was escorted to the company by Rylan himself a few days after their brawl. People couldn’t help but make conjectures about who was backing her up.
Selene straightened up and walked into her office like a proud peacock, enjoying people’s attention. This was precisely what she wanted. She wanted them to witness her remarkable comeback like they witnessed how Rylan threw her out.
Rylan instantly wanted to leave after they set foot in her office.
“Wait!” exclaimed Selene, trying to stop him from leaving.
Rylan paused and then left anyway.
He once again pissed off Selene. She swore to revenge him for the humiliation.
The assistant knocked on the door.
“Coming in!”
The assistant came in and quickly closed the door behind her.
Selene immediately frowned upon her.
“Why do you close the door? Am I embarrassing you?”
Sensing her anger, the assistant answered carefully, “No, Miss Miller. I have something important to tell you.”
Then she whispered something to Selene’s ear, which shocked her thoroughly. She looked at the assistant in disbelief and confirmed with her repeatedly. “Are you sure you got the right information?”
The assistant hesitated for a while. ” Miss Miller, you know how it is. We can only be sure that Catherine went to take an ob-gyn examination at that hospital. It took us a great effort to know this. And that’s all we have.”
Selene felt like she was going to explode with the rage surging inside her chest. The jealousy of Catherine drove her crazy. Why was Catherine always the lucky one?
Then she gave an order to her assistant, which surprised the assistant. “Are you sure about this, Miss Miller? She is Catherine Swann. We stand little chance against her.”
Selene had learned a lesson from the previous failures against Catherine. She did her investigation on Catherine and was confident to say that she knew her well. She understood her assistant’s concerns, but things were different now. Catherine was doomed this time.
“Just follow my lead. Schedule it on the same day as the Duncan Corporation’s press briefing. Now, get to your own business,” said Selene.
Knowing her resolve, the assistant could only do as she was told.
Zobber got a message from Black Robe but couldn’t decide what to do. After thinking, she secretly texted Catherine to seek her opinions in a language only they could understand.
Catherine texted back with two words and cut off their connection to protect Zobber. After all, they lived with so many eyes on them.
After that, Catherine found that the lab chatting room on WhatsApp was boiling. The host released an announcement saying that Catherine had been expelled from Styre University and would have nothing to do with the university and Marshall in the future.
A tossed stone raised a thousand ripples. Those researchers immersed in the academy left their work behind and had a heated discussion. Some said it was too much and that the lab needed Catherine. Others thought it served her right. The chatting room had never been more active.
Catherine swiped her screen and read their comments. She felt bored after a while and exited the chatting room since she no longer belonged to Styre or the lab.
After she exited, her phone never stopped ringing. People were calling her like crazy. Some were close friends, but some she barely knew. She didn’t answer any of them.
Before she could turn her phone off, she got another call and picked up as soon as she saw the number.
“It’s me.” Cold voice.
But Catherine was even colder. “Yes?”
“We will make Styre pay for what they did to you for our cooperation.”
Catherine snorted coldly. “Do you want me to thank you? Maybe a Best-Partner – Ever mug?”
The person on the phone was lost for words. Catherine hung up after two seconds. She never was an ass-kisser.
She took a nap as the doctor had advised her to rest. Her hectic work schedule had taken a toll on her health.
Three peaceful hours of napping gave Catherine total energy. Well, peaceful for her, at least. But Styre experienced an earthquake during the three hours.
Ultan was not surprised when he got a call from the Melton Group. He had seen it coming. The Melton Group only agree to sponsor them because of Catherine and her project. Now that Catherine was expelled and the project didn’t belong to Styre anymore, they would want to withdraw their money.
But to Ultan’s surprise, several sponsors came in a row after the Melton Company and asked for their money back.
Ultan couldn’t sit and wait for his doom. He called an emergency meeting. The fund chain would break if more sponsors left, and many experiments would be affected. Ultan certainly didn’t want to be the one who put Styre to an end.
