Chapter 115

Christina's POV Back at my desk, I opened The Aureate Awards website to look at what I needed to enter by myself. Akira got interested. "Look at all these design categories!" she said excitedly in my mind. "I know, right? So many options," I whispered back as I looked through the entry form. Suddenly, I felt someone behind me. I smelled expensive perfume mixed with bitter black coffee before I could turn around. Violet Lin appeared over my shoulder, staring at my screen like a hawk. "Oh, looking at the competition website?" Her voice was full of smugness as she put her coffee cup on my desk with a loud clink. "I guess you heard what happened?" I didn't look up at her. "The way you talk so loud, even the janitor downstairs heard about it." "The spot is mine," she said, smoothing her expensive dress. "I'm not deaf." "But you are stubborn." She pointed at my computer screen. "Still trying to get in? Don't waste your time unless you have thirty million dollars just sitting around." She put