Chapter 190
But it was empty inside, the tables and chairs were neatly arranged, just no one there.
“Huh? Where did Gabriel go? I clearly told him the boss was coming down to give us some guidance.”
Isaias furrowed his brow slightly, a hint of discomfort flashing across his face.
“Ms. Trevino, you sit first. I’ll go find him.”
He hastily dropped a sentence and then turned around and left.
Lizzie looked around the office, not much stuff, but tidy enough.
She casually sat down on the chair in front of the desk, and soon the office door was pushed open from outside.
Lizzie turned around and saw a familiar figure walking in. She raised an eyebrow.
“Sorry, boss, Gabriel can’t make it…” Johanna’s smile froze on her face and her voice trailed off when she saw Lizzie’s expression.
The air in the room, it’s like it froze all of a sudden.
Lizzie also looked at her, with a calm expression, no big deal.
It was close to the end of the year, and it started snowing outside. She was wearing a dress with a coat on top.
It fit well and looked good, but just didn’t have any work vibes.
Johanna was about to change her expression when Isaias quickly walked over and saw her standing at the door, looking a bit displeased,
“What are you doing standing at the door? Hurry up and come in.”
After saying a few words, he then said, “Johanna, come down and guide the work reception.”
Johanna couldn’t believe her eyes, her pupils suddenly shrank, staring straight at Lizzie.
Her? In charge?
Isaias understood every word she said, but when they were put together, it just didn’t seem real!
Isaias obviously didn’t realize the tension between the two, he was still enthusiastically getting ready to start introducing.
“Ms. Trevino, this is Johanna from our technical department, she was a very talented technician…”
“No need for introductions.”
Lizzie’s lips curled up slightly, giving her a sly smile as she looked at her.
I could see Johanna at the factory, and she was quite surprised.
Isaias was taken aback for a moment, he looked at Lizzie, and then at Johanna, whose face was clearly not right.
At that moment, he finally realized something was off.
“Ms. Trevino, do you… know each other?”
Lizzie nodded confidently, her gaze still on Johanna, “We’re old
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colleagues.”
When she said that, she didn’t show any personal feelings, just stating a fact.
But this sentence, in Johanna’s cars, sounded full of irony!
Old colleague.
They used to be colleagues, but now they are like “night and day“.
Lizzie came down to lead the work at the research laboratory representing the country’s top technology level, she was the “boss” up there.
But she ended up in this ordinary factory, becoming a small and insignificant technician!
Johanna bit her lower lip tightly, almost drawing blood!
She felt her cheeks burning hotly, as if she had been slapped in public, extremely embarrassed!
Theron had his hat on securely, Lizzie looked at Johanna with a smile that wasn’t really a smile, “We know each other very well, no need for introductions.”
She raised an eyebrow and suddenly asked, “Where’s Gabriel?”
Johanna thought Lizzie was deliberately humiliating her, didn’t want her to greet her, couldn’t keep her face, and couldn’t even force a fake smile.
But Lizzie just thought Gabriel was a “kept man” who relied on his wife’s family to get ahead, so she simply asked one more question.
She just wanted to know if Gabriel was Johanna’s second target, if
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Theron had been cuckolded.
Isaias didn’t know what was going on, he just thought Lizzie was
unhappy that he sent a junior technician to meet her, so he asked about Gabriel.
He nervously sweated a bit, “There was a temporary issue in the workshop, and he went to deal with it.”
Just as Isaias finished speaking, the office door was opened again. In walked Gabriel, who had just said “I’ll go to the workshop to solve the problem.” He was holding a steaming hot tea pot in his hands.
He saw Isaias there, not sure what was going on, so he greeted him first, “Mr. Hatfield, you’re here. What’s up?”
He didn’t know Lizzie, so when he saw Isaias, he thought Isaias wanted to introduce someone to the tech department.
In my heart, I muttered, “Isaias, claiming to be selfless, for the collective, for the people, selfless, giving everything. But in the end, he also wanted to use connections to get people into his technical department.”
After he finished speaking, Johanna’s face turned pale all of a sudden.
She panicked and tried to find support, but Gabriel just casually put his hand on her shoulder and guided her to sit down at the desk.
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