Snare of Love

The nature of Helen and Matthew’s relationship was widely-known in the company.

Helen had been sending out signals about their relationship here and there, yet Matthew never objected blatantly or denied the rumours. Therefore, the others would have thought that he had admitted to the rumours.

At the moment, Helen was not only his secretary; she could potentially be the young lady of the Nelson family too. It was only natural that the other employees caught on to the importance of this fact and had tried to suck up to her in the company. This made her feel entitled and proud.

When Matthew was busy with work in his office, there was immediately someone scurried after her and whispered, “Ms. White, what did you have for lunch with Mr. Nelson just now? We are really envious of you guys.”

Helen cast a sideway glance at Dolores who was at one corner of the office and produced a smile, “Nothing much. We had the typical vegetables, crispy pigeon meat, chicken, some prawns...”

“Wow, these are your favourite food.” Sheryl continued to flatter Helen, “Mr. Nelson has been very thoughtful towards you.”

Helen replied with a faint smile while casually flaunting her freshly-made fingernails. Her silence was interpreted by others as admitting to their relationship.

Sheryl inched even closer, “Ms. White, when are you going to marry Mr. Nelson?”

Helen’s movements paused slightly as her thought began to race upon the notion of marriage. If it was not because of Dolores, she would have already been the young lady of the Nelson family.

It was all because of Dolores who had stood in her way!

Since she still had to keep up her good image in front of Matthew, she couldn’t really do any harm to Dolores in public. However, she could still inflict pain on her through the hands of others. She could still manipulate others to make Dolores’ life difficult in the company.

She flashed a friendly smile, “Sheryl.”

“Ms. White, yes?” Sheryl had an expression of flattery.

“Our newest recruit who handles the translation job is really ignorant of the ways of the company.” Helen pretended to be frustrated slightly as she grumbled.

“Did she offend you in any way?”

“Not exactly, but it’s alright. You should go back to work now.” Helen purposely ended the conversation without answering her directly. She was sure that Sheryl would have understood what she had wanted to say.

Sheryl shot a glance at Dolores and turned over a thought in her mind. Was this new recruit not aware of Helen’s relationship with Mr. Nelson? Did she offend Helen because of that?

That must be it. Since she was new in the company, it was possible that she had innocently went up against Helen, judging that she didn’t know about the workings of the company yet.

As she returned to her seat, she was thinking to find a chance to teach Dolores a lesson soon.

disposed of the food packaging. She then headed to the tea area to

caught sight of her movements and decided to grab this chance to reprimand her. She

herself behind Dolores and just as Dolores was turning around with a cup full of tea, she purposely took a step forward and caused Dolores

know how to walk properly?” Sheryl immediately launched into a scolding.

since it was the tea in her cup which was spilled onto

not doing this purposely, then why is my skirt

didn’t

have already apologized. It was really an accident.” Dolores continued to explain patiently.

I slap you across your cheeks and apologize to you, does that mean that you won’t pursue this matter anymore?”

woman being too

spilled with

do you want?” Dolores’ voice lowered a notch.

going to accept her apology, she had no choice but

over me, I will consider things to be even if you let me do it back

water in her palms incredulously. She couldn’t believe what she

if that cup of hot

now was only lukewarm at best since she was in a hurry to finish her drink. Even though some of the contents had spilled over to Sheryl’s skirt, it wouldn’t do her any harm at all. Her skirt was just slightly

at Sheryl intently, “How is that considered even? If I am scalded by hot

pouring this cup of hot water onto

anymore after some time, so it would not burn Dolores severely. At most, she would only suffer

her aim was to gain Helen’s trust, Sheryl thought that she must at least put in some effort on this. She let out

she could even finish her sentence, with a flick of her wrist,

seemed to affect the injury in her knees. Her body tilted to one side and she came crashing to the floor in the end. The hot water settled down on the floor and only wetted the

cold voice broke the silence. Some of the onlookers gathering around them immediately

a moment she glanced at Dolores. However, she

connection between Dolores and

on behalf of anyone because that was the only way

Helen and was feeling very confident about her situation. Since she had Helen’s backing, there was nothing for her to fear. Furthermore, Dolores was just a newcomer

tea onto me, and she didn’t even apologize.

the embarrassed figure on the floor and there was an ambiguous expression on his face. He asked sternly,

up, she stumbled back onto the ground once again. Just as she was going to fall over once more, a strong hand suddenly seized

cupping her waist and he could feel the tender softness of her skin. It was as if the moment he exerted some strength into his palms, her backbone would

heart, he someone didn’t feel like letting