Chapter 240

When Caroline walked into the office, her colleagues seemed livelier than usual as they greeted her in a flurry. Nothing had changed, and yel everything had changed.

Caroline played with the pencil in her hand, still thinking about Jack. He seemed like a loyal and honest man, not some bad person. But why had he lied about the company hiring him?

She had wanted to ask him about it many times when she’d been in the car this morning. In the end, though, she didn’t.

After keeping it a secret for so long, Jack surely wouldn’t just tell her so easily. If she asked about it, he would get suspicious.

She had better wait until Adrian found her a private Investigator to check it out.

Speak of the devil. As Caroline drank somte water, she received a text from Adrian. It read, “Found a private investigator. Free to come out and meet tomorrow night?”

“Sure,” Caroline texted back.

“Alright,” carne the reply.

Caroline didn’t respond anymore, Instead, she turned on her computer and started to work. As for Adrian, he kept checking his phone, turning the screen on and off again and again.

Someone beside him laughed and said, “Waiting for your girlfriend’s text, Mr. Chef?”

Adrian shoved the phone back into his pocket and said with a teasing smile, “You really know it all, don’t you?”

“Is it really your girlfriend? Who is it? Do I know her? Is she pretty?”

Adrian slammed the door closed with a bang, cutting off the questions. He pulled out a cigarette and lit it. Smoke swirled when he breathed out. He checked his phone once again.

There was still no reply.

Caroline had gotten into a groove at work. Just then, there was a knock at the door, and it swung open.

Jules carne inside, smiling brightly. “Congratulations, Ms. Evans. You’re truly exceptional!”

Caroline was confused by this. “What are you talking about, Mr. Hawkins?”

“Why are you still pretending at this point? Cheryl, come in.”

Cheryl came in bearing a trophy, smiling as brightly as Jules was.

Caroline looked at the trophy and saw the words “Rosebow.”

“What’s this?” she asked.

“You said you weren’t joining the Rosebow Contest when I asked you last time, but the trophy’s already here now. Were you planning to surprise us all?”

Caroline accepted the trophy and repeatedly checked that the name on it was hers. Perplexed, she said. “But I didn’t send in a design.”

Jules grinned and said, “Don’t act humble, Ms. Evans. The trophy’s right here.”

That’s right.” Cheryl’s eyes were sparkling.

How long were you planning on keeping us in the dark, Caroline? The Rosebow Contest is the biggest competition in the field. It’s a great ionor to even get shortlisted. It’s amazing that you won the prize.”

he door to Caroline’s office was open, and many people walked past. Thus, lots of them heard the news and stopped at the door.

Did I hear it correctly? Did Ms. Evans really win a prize in the Rosebow Contest? How did she place?”

She placed first!” Cheryl exclaimed proudly.

At this point, Chenyt abrupts thought of Vivian. She said naughty. A real Mc Fanerson that exer we When she said this, a voice rose from the crowd. “That’s rent she has Everyone looked at the source of the voice. When they saw it was Van they all became excrescentosdag for However, lo everyone’s sunrise, Vivian only tilted her chis up elghtly the wald, as it led to The scene made many people drop the laws in shock. They couldn’t believe that Vivian would say such a thing. Al how lowly Vivian thought of Caroline.

Caroline frowned slightly as she looked at Vivian, but the lalter only smiled “Indeed, I disliked you a lot back then. Put since you even won the Bossbow Contest of those in the field. III don’t acknowledge your skill now, I’d be going against everyone Vivian spoke sincerely, but Caroline didn’t buy it. She didn’t think someone The strangest thing was that she had never even sent in a destan to the Rosebow Contest. How could she win fust place, then?

“Thank you, but “Today is such a great day,” Vivian sald, interrupting Caroline “Since Ms. Evans won the Rosebow Contest, shouldn’t she buy us all a meal?”

Since Vivian had brought it up, Caroline could only go along with things, She gave up on correcting the others and agreed to treat everyone to a meal.

Once everyone left, Caroline went on her computer to check the news about the Rosebow Contest’s winners. However, she only found an email online for submissions. There wasn’t even a phone number she could call Hence, she opened her inbox to send the contest organizers an emall to ask what was going on. Yet, when she opened her inboe, she sall a familiar emall in her recently sent emall