To celebrate Claire’s birthday, the product departnt left work an hour early and headed to the restaurant. Ruby Sullivan even booked a two-tiered cake as a birthday gift. It seed like this was the most well-attended gathering of the product departnt, and everyone was very happy.
Since they had work the next day, Ruby Sullivan strictly forbade any second round of partying and promised that once the project was over, she would treat everyone to a fun outing. This lifted the slightly downcast mood to a peak again.
Ruby Sullivan never shortchanged her employees. Although she had learned more about managent now and was no longer rashly generous, the benefits she promised would definitely be delivered.
As she was leaving with everyone, she unexpectedly noticed Ethan Sterling standing in the lobby, seemingly having waited for a long ti.
Claire and the others had seen Ethan Sterling being affectionate before, so they weren’t surprised by the scene before them. Taking advantage of their tipsiness, they teased the boss and his husband, then left for ho in pairs.
Seeing that her subordinates had walked away, Ruby Sullivan hugged Ethan Sterling’s arm. After drinking a bit, her girlish side would co out, which was Ethan Sterling’s favorite part of her.
She knew she would be drinking, so she left her car in the underground parking lot at the company. She hadn’t expected him to co to pick her up, thinking instead that since everyone was so exhausted lately, and it wasn’t too late, she could just take a cab ho.
"Why’d you co to get ?" Ruby tilted her head, grinning foolishly, her eyes sparkling as she looked at his profile.
"Isn’t this what a boyfriend should do?"
"Well, yes, indeed." Soone replied haughtily, but couldn’t maintain seriousness for three seconds before bursting into happy laughter.
Ruby Sullivan fell asleep leaning against Ethan Sterling on the way ho.
anwhile, Skylar Aldrin and Gwen Yates were having a heated argunt.
"Get out! I don’t want to see you anymore." Winona Yates pointed to the door, rcilessly saying, "I don’t want to marry a loser, do you understand? How are you going to support in the future? Through a martial arts school or by working at my dad’s company, being his secretary to stop him from ssing around outside?"
Skylar Aldrin believed her harshness was due to bad pregnancy moods, so he didn’t take her an words to heart.
"You don’t have to worry so much for now. I’m still young, and there are plenty of opportunities. If worse cos to worst, with my family’s connections, I can work in a second or third-tier city governnt for a couple of years until I get promoted. I swear, I won’t let you and the child suffer."
"I’m not going to have this baby!" Gwen Yates thought of this accidental pregnancy, feeling like hitting her stomach, she scread fiercely: "Did you deliberately want to get pregnant?"
She had always been careful about this, so how could she have gotten pregnant? How could she accept having a foolish child?
Skylar Aldrin felt wrongly accused even if he jumped into the Yellow River for cleansing. It was indeed a result of an impulsive mont, but to say it was intentional seed unfair, after all, who doesn’t have monts where they lose control?
He looked at her pitifully, not knowing how to answer.
Gwen Yates suddenly went berserk, grabbed his luggage, and threw it out, "Get out, right now!"
Skylar Aldrin felt helpless, worried that continuing the argunt might affect the baby in her belly, so he obediently left her sight temporarily. He felt a bit useless, knowing he’d be looked down upon by his father if he went ho, stood downstairs hesitating for a while, and then dragged his luggage away. At this hour, he didn’t have many places to go besides a hotel.
*
Ethan Sterling opened the door and, seeing who it was, shut it again.
Ruby Sullivan was surprised. Was it so drunk knocking at this late hour?
"Who is it?"
Ethan Sterling glanced at her, "No one."
As soon as he said that, the knocking resud. This ti Ruby Sullivan went to open the door, and Skylar Aldrin looked like he had seen an angel.
"Sis-in-law, please take in."
Ruby Sullivan blinked, surprised, but still let him in, "What’s going on with you?"
Ethan Sterling glared at him warningly, "If you wake the two little ones, I’ll kill you."
Skylar Aldrin imdiately lowered his voice, "My wife is a bit agitated, I’m just taking refuge."
Ethan Sterling raised an eyebrow, "Refuge? Or kicked out?"
Did he have to be so brutally honest? Skylar Aldrin awkwardly looked at him, stamring, "Well, you could say that..."
Ruby Sullivan found his timid deanor quite cute, her eyes uncontrollably radiating a motherly affection, and she turned to the room to find him a blanket.
Ethan Sterling gestured him to sit on the sofa, "Are you sure you want to know why I’m firing you?"
Skylar Aldrin nodded imdiately, "I don’t want to die not understanding."
"You don’t deserve to die understanding." Ethan Sterling lanted his incompetence with a cold comnt. Then he brought up a recording on his phone, followed by a woman’s voice. From the room, Ruby Sullivan imdiately recognized it as Rhonda Sullivan’s voice.
"I heard your bid for the plot at Zhongcheng failed, congratulations. Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you, your company’s bid was leaked by . That little boy surnad Zhao of yours is quite competent, he tells his girlfriend everything, giving lots of useful information. Be sure to continue using him heavily!"
Rhonda Sullivan made this call not out of goodwill, for one, Gwen Yates had already said she wouldn’t help anymore, and for another, she knew very well that Skylar Aldrin was soone Ruby Sullivan introduced and protected. As long as she could cause even a bit of unhappiness for her sister, she would be very happy.
Ethan Sterling purely thought this woman wouldn’t bring any good news, so every ti Rhonda Sullivan called; he recorded it. This ti, he unexpectedly caught sothing useful.
Skylar Aldrin was dumbfounded, "Who is she? How does she know Gwen Yates?"
Ruby Sullivan’s expression changed as well. She hadn’t expected Gwen Yates to collude with Rhonda Sullivan, if only she’d told Ethan Sterling about Skylar Aldrin and Gwen Yates being together from the start, perhaps there wouldn’t have been today’s loss.
For a mont, she also felt very guilty.
She sighed, "This is my sister, who delights in causing trouble for ."
Skylar Aldrin was too shocked to speak, many thoughts started surfacing in his mind, realizing that every ti Gwen Yates asked about his work, it was probing deeply, claiming it was for social surveys and preparation for her post-graduate job, but actually to sell useful intelligence.
Ruby Sullivan, seeing him stunned into silence, felt a bit worried, "Skylar, are you okay?"
Skylar Aldrin took a deep breath, like suddenly coming back to reality, "I was thinking, maybe what she said to today wasn’t just because she was in a bad pregnancy mood, but because, she truly feels that way... Mr. Sterling, could you send that audio recording?"
Ethan Sterling picked up his phone to send the audio to him.
Skylar Aldrin abruptly stood up
, "Sorry for the bother." With that, he was about to leave.
Ruby Sullivan, worried that in this state, he might do sothing foolish upon eting Gwen Yates, quickly stopped him, "You’re not allowed to leave! Stay here and calm down for the night, think clearly before going to her."
Skylar Aldrin frowned. With things already like this, what more was there to think about? But then he thought perhaps rushing back now might lead to irrational actions, so he nodded, "Thank you."
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