Flash Marriage: Slow Down Mister novel Chapter 98

Different from the kiss before, it was overpowering, showing his possessiveness of her.

He quickly pried open her mouth, conquered her tongue, as he fastened the hold of his hands, as if to rub her into his blood.

After a long while, he finally let go of her with a wistful look. His heart softened as he looked into his arms and saw the dainty woman's apple-red cheeks. He came close to her and whispered to her ears, "Thanks for believing me. Clara."

And he was even more grateful for her appearing in his life, when it had been gloomy and lightless.

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Clara had been at home resting for half a month before she felt ashamed and pleaded to get back to work.

After all, she had taken so many leaves lately, so she's afraid that she would get fired.

When she came back to the office she had been away for long, people came asking her how she's faring, apparently most of whom had realized their misunderstanding about her, thus the unusual enthusiasm.

But of course, except for Diane Kirby.

The first thing she said when she saw Clara was, "Oh, look who's here. Our Miss Selman, I thought you're well-connected enough to make money by simply lying at home."

Diane looked at Clara with unspeakable hared.

She had run into Ashlee the other day at a mall, thinking she could use her to get rid of Clara, but for reasons unknown, she just scuttled away, without taking any actions.

Those rich little princesses were just useless!

But she herself couldn't think of any ways to deal with her either, so whining was all she could do.

Clara was in no mood for responding to her, neither did others.

Sarah caught Clara by the arm and said excitedly, "Clara, you probably haven't known yet. The heinous factory that we had exposed was sued and all the workers there have got their pays."

"Really?" Clara was surprised to hear the news.

These days, factory workers are an underprivileged community, who could hardly get their pays back unless they made big news out of it.

"Yeah, and not only that, everybody said we took credit for it, so they gave us an award!" exclaimed Sarah more excitedly. She searched the news on her phone and showed it to Clara. "Something like a social contribution award, not like something big, but it'll bring more popularity to our magazine! And people on Twitter have been saying that we are a press with conscience."

Clara fell silent.

As someone who knew the truth, she was aware that this thing didn't actually have anything to do with their company, but anyway, the magazine became known by more people because of that, so it should help with sponsorship and sales, which was a good thing to them all.

"That's great," she said smilingly.

"Yeah, and Mr. Kirkland said he will treat us to drinks today. So you must come with us this time. I won't take no for an answer." Sarah's eyes flickered with expectation.

Clara was surprised. "Has he got back to work?"

"Yeah. What a coincidence, he also took a leave the day you did." Sarah seemed to have thought of something and added, "But he came back a week earlier than you."

Clara frowned.