Chapter 269

Thinking about it made Emily Hayes even more annoyed. With a heavy huff, she slammed the door shut and stormed back to her room, picking up the phone to call Sophia Ford again—they had to cook up a new way to put Sarah Knight in her place. Meanwhile, her brother Nicholas Hayes didn’t look the least bit bothered. In fact, there was a hint of amusement in his eyes, and the corner of his lips raised ever so slightly in a smirk. The whole "Sarah and Alexander Barron going to and from work together" thing? Yeah, he’d fed that to his sister earlier on purpose. He’d recently started digging into Sarah’s movements and noticed she’d been visiting a company pretty often. One look at their staff list, and there it was—her name right under the “General Manager” title. And that very company? Owned by none other than his rival, Bennett Ford. Lucky for him, Emily had always crushed on Alexander and couldn’t stand Sarah. Nicholas didn’t even have to do much; he just planted the seed and waited. He kne