Chapter 191



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The scene of the couple breaking up was too cruel, and Hayden felt that she was not so brazen to watch the fun in front of the couple. Therefore, she used her strength to fly away and leave the place.

The last thing he heard were Kevin’s words.

He was a playboy in the sight of the women of the city. However, when he suffered a miserable love affair, he surprisingly let others feel sorry for him. He said, “Alayna, pretend nothing has happened these two days. We, we will go on as before, okay?”.

Hayden didn’t expect that since things had gotten to this point, Kevin might still give in and be willing to pretend that nothing had happened, as if things as big as proposing to Alayna and being rejected by her didn’t exist….

“I can’t. I’m tired, Kevin.” Alayna responded like this.

Both men and women could be unfaithful.

It was getting late. Hayden took Alayna back to his fashion studio.

“Actually, I’m fine, you don’t need to take care of me.”

“Who cares if you’re fine?”. Hayden gave her a disgusted look, “I just want to eat the roast duck neck next to your studio.”

“Then I’ll treat you.”

“Of course you’re inviting me, aren’t you embarrassed to have it paid for by an unemployed woman?”.

Alayna had been depressed since she got out of the hospital, and Hayden was afraid she was suffering from mental illness. That’s why he kept teasing her like that.

If she had been normal, Alayna would have jumped up and fought with her, but now she just leaned against the passenger side with a sickly look on her face. She sighed after a long moment.

“It’s a shame.”

“You think it’s a shame, too?” Hayden looked at Alayna. She thought she was regretting breaking up with Kevin, “It’s very rare that you feel sorry for something.”

Alayna looked at her slyly. “Unfortunately, Kevin and I had been talking about asking you and Joseph out together and taking that opportunity to improve the relationship between the two of you. But now that I’m done with him, we can no longer help you.”

At the mention of Joseph’s name, the reassuring smile on Hayden’s face froze and his fingers gripping the steering wheel tightened. “Who wants your help, mind your own business.”

Alayna’s fashion studio was located east of N City, near the old city. There were many tourists there today, and at midnight it was still crowded.

The two sat by the window, commenting on the dress and manners of the tourists. Alayna was a designer. In her eyes, none of them looked good.

Hayden rolled his eyes.

“You still have the nerve to make comments about others. They should give you a mirror to look at your actual appearance. Your eye makeup makes you look like a panda, and your mouth is full of oil, showing a bad image.”

Hearing his words, Alayna turned her head back and looked lazily at Hayden, who was holding a roasted duck neck and a fried chicken wing in another hand. She said expressionlessly.

“We’re both the same!”

They both felt sad because of the men and also gorged themselves on food to ease the depression in their hearts. Why was one woman making things difficult for another?

“If you weren’t sick, you’d accept Kevin’s proposal without the slightest hesitation, wouldn’t you?” Hayden asked her.

However, Alayna took a bite of the chicken wing, as if she didn’t care about Hayden’s question. She said vaguely, “If I didn’t have this disease, maybe I would have gotten married a long time ago, he wouldn’t stand a chance, would he?”

She still wanted to live, wanted to experience more of this interesting world. She didn’t want to burden others, so she preferred solitude. If her life was a bed of roses, she could have married and had children like a normal woman.

“Don’t talk about it. I overheard you talking to the doctor at the hospital this morning, he said your father’s health is pretty stable now. Will he still be living in the nursing home after that?”

Hayden frowned, “I asked him, he wants to go live at home.” A At his words, Alayna’s face turned grim.

“Shit, what does this old man want? You’ve been taking care of him for so long, but is he going to leave when he recovers, or is he going to move in with that lady?”

Her words sounded harsh, and Hayden felt uncomfortable in her heart of hearts, but she pretended to be relaxed, “It doesn’t matter, they’ve lived together most of his life. He has a closer relationship with them than with me. He’s old now and I don’t think he wants to live alone in the nursing home.”

“That old man has no scruples.” Alayna had no problem telling Hayden’s father that way, she showed him no respect.

“In my opinion, you have fulfilled your responsibility as his daughter by saving him from death. From now on just don’t worry about him, and live your life well.”

Hayden seemed calm: “I don’t think he needs me to worry about him either.”

Lately, Sofia and Chelsea had been going to visit Bentley in the hospital quite often. It was also the two of them who suggested Bentley come home, she thought they still loved Bentley.

“And after this, what do you plan to do?”

“… Hmm?”-

“I’m asking you about your job.” Alayna asked her as she wiped her greasy hand, “Didn’t you say you had already planned what you were going to do? But you were being secretive with me – can you tell me now?”.

“There’s really nothing to hide.” Hayden smiled, “It’s just that the formalities weren’t finalized at the time. They were finalized yesterday.”

“What?” Hayden wiped his hands and pulled a business card out of the wallet he was carrying and handed it to Alayna.

“Green Lemon Clothing, General Manager, Hayden Downey?” Alayna read it quietly and looked up in surprise. “You started a company?”

“I didn’t open it. It was my mother’s company at first.” Hayden explained.

“When my mother first married my father, my father had just started his business, and my mother was basically the one who put up the initial working capital. But then, my mother got pregnant and had me. My father’s company got going as well. Green Lemon Clothing merged with the Downey Group. However, this small clothing company was not well taken care of, so it has not grown either, now I have taken over the company.”

Hayden left out a few words, but Alayna could also guess what was going on.

When Florence became pregnant, she stopped working. Green Lemon Clothing merged with the Downey Group to become an insignificant subsidiary. Then Sofia messed up the marriage between Florence and Bentley. Florence died in childbirth and Sophia didn’t even treat her daughter well, much less her company.

It wasn’t easy for this small company to survive to this day.

“When I asked my father about it, he didn’t say anything, just that he agreed with me,” she says.

“Of course he had to agree with you, the company belongs to you in the first place. What’s wrong with getting yours back.”

Hayden smiled, “Okay, let bygones be bygones, don’t get so indignant. I have something to ask you.”

“What?”

“Would you like to come to Green Lemon Clothing to help me?”.

Alayna frowned and frowned. “You want me to come to your crappy little company to work for you as a designer? What’s the point?”

“You can work for me at a lower salary.”

“Damn, do you know how much I’m worth in this market?”. Alayna immediately glared at her.

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