My Four Miraculous Treasures novel Chapter 91

As soon as the doors of the lift closed, all the women began chattering:

“Breaking news! Yesterday, Edith Price made a move on Jasper Hughes… but got rejected!”

“Really?! But she’s so talented, and so pretty… and she’s always doing her best for Mr. Hughes! If even she wasn’t good enough… what hope do the rest of us have?”

“We’ve got good jobs here, with Hughes Corporation… we might catch sight of Mr. Hughes, once in a while… it’s enough. Don’t ask for any more,” one of the other women said, before taking a long sip of her coffee.

“Perhaps being a woman is the problem, here… I’ve heard that he might prefer guys!” said another, her eyes sparkling.

Hearing this, Willow spat out a whole mouthful of her soy milk, and then spent a long moment choking horribly.

The woman in front of her was sprayed with that soy milk. Snatching up a piece of tissue, Willow wiped at her blouse while apologizing non-stop: “Sorry! I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to do that!”

“It’s alright. Here, I’ll do it myself.” Tamara took the tissue from her and wiped at herself. She was the one who’d suggested that Jasper might be gay.

“Don’t be so shocked. There’s a grain of truth in this rumor…” Tamara figured that was why Willow had choked on her drink.

“Have you heard?” she went on, “The reason Mr. Hughes rejected Ms. Price was because, apparently, he sees her as a guy. Ms. Price is so pretty, with such a sexy figure, always wearing the hottest fashions… other guys are drooling all over her, and yet Mr. Hughes isn’t the tiniest bit interested? He sees her as a guy? This definitely proves that he’s only interested in men, not women.”

This powerful, logical argument left Willow speechless.

First of all, how could anyone know what Jasper had said to Edith, in a situation like that? What should be a personal secret was instead spreading around as public news!

“…And get this! In order to cover up his true sexual orientation, Mr. Hughes put on a big show with one of the cleaning ladies in front of Ms. Price, hoping to throw her off his trail! The maid in question was just ugly and lame, absolutely no contest against Ms. Price… but can you believe Mr. Hughes said, that was his idea of a real woman?! Why would he attack Ms. Price like that?!”