Her Heart Her Terms (Lily and Xavier)

Chapter 232

Prev Chapter
Background

Font family

Font size

Line hieght

Full frame
Yes No

No line breaks
Yes No
Next Chapter

Chapter 234

Queenie asked, "Did Ms. Cooper push you out?

"No. | applied for the transter myself," Lily replied honestly, "Ms. Cooper is very responsible and capable."

"Stop pretending."Queenie scotted. "The designers in the market stores are tougher than Nadial The successful

ones make tens of thousands a month. "They work on commission, risking their lives, pulling overtime, and

staying up late to secure clients. If you go there, you'll be eaten alive."

Lily was well aware of that. In any commission-based industry, competition was fierce. This, her survival would

depend on nothing but persistence.

"Hopefully, the next twe meet, I'll at least be a skeleton so | don't scare you," she joked.

Queenie, being a sentimental person, quickly bonded with Lily after working together for a short time. Her eyes

were now slightly red

"you're already as thin as a skeleton. No matter how tough things get, remember to eat on time."

Before leaving, Lily hugged Queenie and added her personal Whataccount.

Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt

The market store she was heading to was in a nearby hgoods mall, where she was due to report at 3:00p.m.

The store manager, Landon Ashford, was in his 40s, wearing black square-framed glasses, a crew cut, and

dressed casually in jeans and a sports hoodie.

The other employees were dressed similarly casual, in contrast to the formal attire worn at the headquarters

design department,

Lily fell out of place in her business suit.

Soon, she was led to a workstation in the corner. Around her, others were busy-making phone calls, drafting

plans, and attending to customers,

Their own tasks.

all absorbed in

Lily set her things down and was about to walk around the store to check out the sample materials when Landon

called her over. She changed course and walked toward has workstation "Lily, a batch of sample boards just

arrived out front. Go bring them in," he said.

Landon handed her a receipt and asked her to check the quantity

Taking the receipt, Lily headed to the back door of the mall, where she verified the goods with the logistics team

and picked them up.

The items were long, heavy wooden poles-each about six feet long. Carrying them all at once was impossible,

and even taking them one by one was a struggle for

Lily

She wasn't used to heavy lifting, and each pole, which was taller and heavier than she was, wobbled no matter

how she tried to balance it

After much effort, she finally managed to drag one inside. As she turned toward the elevator, the other end of

the pole bumped into something and slid off her shoulder.

Aloud "bang" echoed, followed by a flurry of gasps from behind her.

""Mr. Fulton!"

"Mr. Fulton, are you okay?"

Xavier pressed his hand to the back of his head and slowly tumed around, glaring at the person who had

embarrassed him in front of everyone.

Lily's shoulder stung from the scrape, and instinctively pressed her hand to it. When she heard "Mr. Fulton," she

instinctively looked up

Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm

Their eyes met, and her stunned expression slowly becawkward.

"Mrs. Timothy started to say something but quickly caught himself. "Hold onto your wood!"

Lily snapped back to reality and realized she had bumped into Xavier, his deep eyes

es radiating an endless coldness.

Behind him stood a group of well-dressed men, who were seemingly unaffected. And somehow, the pole had hit

Xavier right on the back of his head.

She hurriedly bowed her head in apology. "I'm sorry. | didn't see you there

Timothy didn't dare speak, nervously glancing at Xavier. Xavier furrowed his brows, his gaze still fixed on Lily.

Behind him was the senior management of the hgoods mall. This mall belonged to Nova Group, and Xavier

had cfor an inspection

Upon seeing his expression, the senior executives immediately scolded Lily.

"What are you doing!? How many times have we told you to be careful when transporting goods? Are you blind?

You don't even look like an employee dressed like

"Are you the shop owner's wife? Where is your husband? Why is there no one else in the store, and yet you're

causing all this trouble?"

Report chapter Comments

Her Heart Her Terms (Lily and Xavier)

Notify