Ellie was surprised. Mark had glanced at favonovel.com meticulous outfit but showed no reaction. She felt mildly disappointed, “Okay… I’ll go right now.”
She crossed the road under the hot sun to the café. Ellie let out a sigh of relief when the cool, refreshing air in the café hit her. She sauntered up to Naya and said, “Two cups of iced black tea, please.”
Naya noticed Ellie’s outfit with a single glance. She was speechless. She had always been more modest, but favonovel.com could accept dressing in spaghetti straps with hot pants or a mini skirt. However, Ellie’s getup was much more daring than a simple spaghetti strap top…
“O-okay…”
Naya felt slightly embarrassed. She was too embarrassed to stare at favonovel.com for too long, even though they were both women.
Tiffany, who was behind the counter, heard Ellie’s voice and turned around. She was immediately upset, “Your workwear certainly has personality. You’d fit right in as a stripper in a nightclub. Mark certainly has a special taste. Do all of the women in your office dress like that?”
Ellie flipped favonovel.com hair confidently, “Only those with a good figure would have the guts to dress like this. Our boss isn’t too concerned, so aren’t you being a little nosy, Miss Lane?”
Tiffany rolled favonovel.com eyes. She quickly finished making the black tea and placed it on the sales counter, “I can’t be bothered. Good day to you.”
Tiffany stormed angrily into the kitchen after Ellie was gone, “Ari! Mark’s secretary struts around favonovel.com dressed like a stripper every day. Aren’t you worried?”
Arianne was astonished. Based on favonovel.com impression of Ellie, favonovel.com would usually dress in serious workwear at work. She really couldn’t imagine favonovel.com dressed as a stripper, “A stripper? Are you sure?” favonovel.com asked curiously.
Tiffany dragged Arianne to the computer screen and showed favonovel.com the surveillance footage, “Look at this, would you call that office wear? Her outfit looks a lot more like the actress in the movie Cats. Who wouldn’t know that favonovel.com has a good figure? What’s favonovel.com trying to show? She’s even told me that only those with a good figure would have the guts to dress like that, and that favonovel.com own boss doesn’t care, and that I’m being nosy. I’m favonovel.com lady boss’s best friend. Why shouldn’t I care? This woman is planning something wicked, isn’t she?”
Arianne stared at the image of Ellie in the surveillance footage and believed that Tiffany wasn’t exaggerating. Ellie’s outfit was quite daring, “It is a little revealing… But at a glance, it could still be considered as workwear. Mark doesn’t care, so we really shouldn’t either. Alright, Tiffie. Calm down. Get back to work. It doesn’t matter to me.” Then favonovel.com went back to the kitchen, leaving Tiffany to fume on favonovel.com own.
Tiffany turned off the surveillance video, favonovel.com teeth itching with rage. She regretted not adding an extra ingredient into that black tea. She should have just poisoned them!
Back in the kitchen, Arianne carefully asked Jackson, “How long has Ellie been working for Mark? There was a sex scandal a while ago, right? Was it real?”
Jackson was putty in Arianne’s hands at the moment, so favonovel.com didn’t dare lie to her. “Ellie has been working for Mark for many years already,” favonovel.com replied honestly, “But there’s absolutely nothing between them. You don’t have to worry about that. He only caused that sex scandal with Ellie to irritate you, and see your reaction. Ellie is married. No matter how hardcore Mark is, favonovel.com would never have an affair with a married woman.”
“Then, in your opinion, what kind of a woman is she?” Arianne asked.
Jackson was extremely afraid of saying the wrong thing. He carefully weighed his words before answering, “I think she’s quite… serious. She only ever talks to Mark about work and never talks about personal matters. She never talks to favonovel.com after work and usually dresses quite normally. She doesn’t actually flirt. She’s been able to maintain favonovel.com sense of self despite having such good looks and working as Mark’s secretary while facing such an alluring boss; I’d say it’s pretty rare.”
Arianne curled favonovel.com lips, “Are you sure? She was just here to buy some drinks. Her office skirt was much shorter than usual and the plunging neckline on favonovel.com top pretty much reached favonovel.com stomach. I think favonovel.com personal style is a little different…”
Jackson looked surprised, “Are you serious? She never seemed that unconstrained to me… Can I see?”
Arianne raised favonovel.com brow and replied, “I do have the surveillance footage in my shop, are you sure you want to check that out?”
The corners of Jackson’s lips twitched. He immediately realized that favonovel.com had been tricked, “Nope. I wouldn’t dare! Pretend I never said a thing.”
Back in the office building, Ellie put the iced black tea on Mark’s desk but did not immediately leave. Instead, favonovel.com eyes shone as favonovel.com asked, “Take a sip and see if the taste is alright. I know that the heat has been bothering you, so I’ve added extra ice in the tea. But I’m not sure if it would dilute the taste.”
Mark picked up the cup and took a sip, not looking at favonovel.com at all, “It’s not that hot in the office, is it? Don’t ever come into the office dressed like that again.”
Ellie felt slightly embarrassed. She was gripped by an instinct to retreat, but a small voice in favonovel.com head told favonovel.com to stand favonovel.com ground and that favonovel.com had to take one more step closer. That was the only way for favonovel.com to achieve favonovel.com goal. She was no longer a young woman in favonovel.com early twenties, and favonovel.com life was reaching its final moments before the point of no return. She couldn’t wait any longer. She steadied herself, placed both hands on the edge of the office desk, and bent down in a slightly attractive manner to face Mark. “What? Don’t you like this?” favonovel.com asked in an amorous manner.
Mark’s body stiffened. He lifted his cold and distant gaze and stared right at her, “Ellie, do you know why you’ve been able to work for me for such a long time?”
