Once Adam sobered up the next day, he cooked a lavish breakfast for Ginnie to apologize to her.
“I looked into the product launch yesterday, Ginnie. The nanny stole your draft and sold it to Snow. I’ve already fired her. Since she’s already so old, let’s not hold her accountable by the law, okay?”
Ginnie could not help it. She scoffed. Adam truly was a company president, alright. He had managed to find a scapegoat in no time.
He continued, “I wasn’t expecting Snow to do something like that either! But plagiarism is a scandalous issue, and if it blows up, it’ll give the company a negative image. Since things have come to this, why don’t we do her a favor and pretend that it was her draft?
“Besides, you already hit her to vent your anger, right? Since she’s not holding you accountable to it, you should forgive her for this.”
Once he started talking about Snow getting hit, Adam’s tone gained a reproachful edge. “Please don’t be so rash next time. Snow has always been frail and has never been in a conflict with anyone else before. She can’t handle being slapped.”
The protectiveness in his voice made Ginnie frown, and she felt uncomfortable.
Before she could say anything, she suddenly received a message. It was from her grandfather’s assistant.
[Miss Ginny, preparations are almost ready. We will pick you up at the assigned time next Friday.]
Adam saw the message too, along with the long string of numbers that clearly belonged to an overseas phone number.
For some reason, something felt off to him.
“Who sent you the message? Why is it an overseas number?”
Ginnie hurriedly turned the screen off and put her phone face down on the table. “It’s nothing. Just a foreign scammer.”
At that, Adam sighed in relief and teased her, “Scammers nowadays sure have a lot of new tricks. They’re even calling you ‘Miss Ginny’ to gain your trust.”
Ginnie did not tell him that she had once thought that she was an orphan and only learned from her grandfather, who found her not too long ago, that she was the heiress of Sullivan Corporation, a company based abroad. He also wanted her to live abroad with him.
At that time, Adam had been busy with work, so Ginnie had wanted to find the right time to tell him.
However, at that moment, she no longer felt the need to tell him.
When Ginnie still looked rather dour, Adam changed the topic of conversation. “It’s Mr. Howard’s birthday tomorrow. He’s your teacher and an elder I respect. Let’s attend his birthday party tomorrow and… also mend your relationship with Snow.”
Heh. It was for Snow again, then.
Ginnie turned her head away. A long time passed, and she finally said, “Sure.”
But it was not to mend her relationship with Snow, as Adam had proposed.
Both she and Snow were Howard’s students. Even though she did not end up marrying William and hurt her arm, Howard still treated her like his granddaughter, so she should indeed go.
On the day of the birthday, all sorts of powerful figures from the business world attended Howard’s party. But the center of attention was Adam, the rising star of the business world.
He calmly entered while holding Ginnie’s hand, but when he saw the affectionate way Snow stood together with William to serve the guests, a dark look appeared in his eyes.
Without even greeting Howard, Adam let go of Ginnie and went to the side to start drinking.
Ginnie glanced at the empty spot beside her before she went to the study to visit her teacher with her gift in hand.
The sight of Ginnie coming over made Howard look at her with pity. As he stared at Ginnie’s limp arm, he sighed. “It’s been three years. Why is your arm still not healed? Is there really no way for you to get it treated?
“You’re the most talented person I’ve seen when it comes to drawing, and your drawings are filled with the most life. If not for the fact that you hurt your arm, your achievements wouldn’t pale to Snow in the slightest.”
Ginnie shook her head with a bitter smile.
If she had not heard Adam’s conversation with his private doctor three days ago, she would not have been able to figure out why her arm still refused to heal either.
After she left Howard’s study, she could not find Adam.
Just as she was about to turn around, she heard a faint moan from the room closest to her.
Ginnie looked into the room through the crack, and what she saw made her freeze.
