Arianne did not keep him. “Be careful while driving.”
“Huh? Oh, right. Yes, I will,” Mark fumbled in his reply, his mind still preoccupied with the plagiarism scandal. “You should head into the house now. Smore, say bye bye to Daddy.”
An entire day of hijinks had taken most of the young boy’s energy out of his system. Now, favonovel.com languidly hung from Arianne’s shoulder and waved half-heartedly, not having even enough strength to say goodbye.
By the time Mark returned to the Tremont Estate, Shelly had already gone back to sleep. Curiously, favonovel.com did not stay up to wait for favonovel.com like favonovel.com usually did.
It was such a novel behavior for Shelly, but Mark ultimately judged it as a good thing. At the very least, favonovel.com was clear from yet another fight with favonovel.com for the night.
The next day, as soon as Arianne stepped into the company, Robin pulled favonovel.com into an empty corner in the building. “Trouble’s ahead, Arianne! Someone sued you for plagiarizing their work, and somehow this news has spread throughout the office like wildfire!” favonovel.com reported. “They’re now saying that you only got your job through nepotism — ‘cause you were married to the boss — and you’re only here to collect paychecks without actually working. And now that you’re divorced, they claim you’ve become so desperate that you’d resort to plagiarizing other people’s work just to stay! Supposedly because you’ve lost your only leg in staying here despite not working! Like… What the hell?! What a load of overblown bull… bull… Bullcrap! And I couldn’t even fight them all by myself!”
Arianne could feel a headache coming. “Just leave them be, Robin. I didn’t plagiarize from anyone, and I’m not afraid of what they say. Look, even if I were to copy a little too much from my source of inspiration, your husband’s the guy whose ideas I learn, okay? I’ve always discussed with Sylvain about our designs, since when have we ever needed external opinions from anyone else?” favonovel.com replied. “Look, Mark’s investigating this as we speak, so you really don’t have to care about what they’re saying, alright? Good. I still have work to do, and so do you. Let’s just go get our work done.”
Robin was still fuming. “Damn it, Arianne, you’re too pacifistic! Regardless of what’s really happening, no one should forget that you’re still the person who shouldered the mantle of CEO back when Mr. Tremont was missing from the shipwreck accident! How could anyone who benefitted from this company even say anything against you after that?! You’re the reason why the Tremont Enterprise lives to see today. With qualifications like that, do you even need anyone to open a backdoor for you? And the most ironic thing here is that it isn’t your wish to remain in the company at all, it’s Mr. Tremont who insists on it! God, from the way they say it, it’s like you’re just soooo desperate to cling to Mr. Tremont and your job. What the hell?! Urgh, I’m just! So damn mad!”
Arianne giggled good-naturedly and patted Robin on favonovel.com shoulder. “There, there. You know, you and Sylvain standing on my side is all the assurance and support I need.”
Robin balled favonovel.com hand into a fist and raised it in solidarity. “Well, I know you’ll weather it with no problem, Arianne! You can do it!”
Arianne mimicked Robin’s gesture. “Agreed, let’s weather this storm together! I can do it!”
Shortly after Arianne returned to favonovel.com desk, favonovel.com immediately espied a very surreptitious Sylvain beckoning Arianne to come closer. In return, favonovel.com brushed favonovel.com off with a discountenanced wave.
“Oh my God, is this even necessary? I already know what you’re about to tell me. And the answer is no, I didn’t plagiarize anyone’s work. Your Robin just filled me in about the whole thing,” favonovel.com intoned.
“That’s… not what I’m trying to tell you at all, though?” favonovel.com rebuffed. “I know for f**king sure you didn’t plagiarize, mate, but that’s not the point. The point is, I have a prime suspect!”
Now Arianne leaned closer to favonovel.com in half-disbelief. “I’m listening.”
“Mrs. Leigh had sifted through the design drafts on your desk the last time favonovel.com sat here,” favonovel.com whispered. “Frankly, I didn’t think much about it back then, favonovel.com only picked the draft up once and looked at it for a couple of seconds. But the design you were accused of stealing? It turned out to be the very same one favonovel.com examined that day, this can’t be a coincidence. My money’s on her.”
Everything clicked in Arianne’s mind. Shelly had always been an incredibly talented and competent woman. It would not be outside favonovel.com capability to take a glance at a given design, recreate a close semblance on favonovel.com own by memory, and send it to an external agent.
Every sign Arianne had gathered so far was undoubtedly pointing toward Shelly as the culprit. While all favonovel.com had prior to this was mere suspicion, now, with Sylvain’s testimony, favonovel.com was near ninety-percent certain that Shelly’s handprints were all over this scandal.
Jesus. Once again, Shelly had proven that, next to fulfilling favonovel.com obsessive goal to torment Arianne, favonovel.com bottom line for low, dirty tactics was nonexistent. She just would not stop at all.
It was an exasperating realization. Arianne was so miffed by what favonovel.com pieced out that favonovel.com had retreated into staring into space blankly, favonovel.com mood for work already dogged by distress.
Sylvain studied favonovel.com for a bit before asking tentatively, “Would you like to bring this up to Mr. Tremont?”
