Chapter 3

The cafeteria manager’s lips trembled. The supervisor and several of my coworkers had gone deathly pale as well, exchanging helpless looks.

Evan seemed deeply displeased by the silence on our end. His voice grew even colder.

“What? Do I need to repeat myself?”

Then the video shifted.

Vivian actually turned the camera toward Evan, clearly wanting us to see where he was.

Behind him was a private room in an upscale club. Several middle-aged men sat beside him, and from the look of it, he was in the middle of an important business dinner.

Evan sat at the head of the table. When he saw Vivian acting coy, he shook his head helplessly at first, but there was no trace of irritation in his eyes. If anything, he looked indulgent.

“Evan…”

Vivian ignored the fact that he was handling business and started crying into the camera.

“Look at them. They’re all ganging up on me. I only wanted to do something nice for everyone, but they treated me like this. They completely trampled all over my kindness. Evan, you have to stand up for me!”

As she spoke, she forced out a few tears for the camera.

The wounded, pitiful look on her face was nothing like the arrogant, overbearing woman from moments ago.

Evan’s expression darkened at once.

He did not even ask what had happened. His entire focus was on Vivian through the video.

“All right, all right, don’t cry. You’ll ruin your makeup, and then you won’t look pretty. Is something this small really worth getting so upset over? I’m here. No one gets to bully you.”

He comforted her gently, then finally lifted his gaze toward our side of the screen. When he spoke again, his voice was icy.

“Do none of you understand plain English?

“I’m ordering you right now. Do exactly as Vivian says. Apologize.

“If I don’t see the right attitude from you within three seconds…”

Before he could finish, I walked straight to the front of the camera.

My face, along with the angry red burn on the back of my hand, appeared clearly on the screen.

“Evan, are you sure you want me to apologize?”

“Alice?”

There was a flicker of shock in Evan’s voice.

But the surprise on his face was quickly replaced by deeper impatience. He did not even spare a second glance at the burn on my hand. Instead, he rubbed the bridge of his nose with his free hand, visibly annoyed.

“Alice, why are you in the cafeteria?

“Aren’t you supposed to be interning in Administration?”

I looked at him calmly.

“What do you think?”

Evan’s gaze swept over the cafeteria manager and the employees behind me. His voice sank.

“Stop making a scene. Just do what Vivian asked and apologize. We can talk about everything else when I get home tonight.”

The moment he said that, everyone froze.

Not just me. Even the coworkers beside me were stunned.

Seeing this, Vivian immediately straightened with smug satisfaction and poured more fuel on the fire.

“Evan, so she’s the new intern. She was so aggressive just now. The cafeteria manager only dared to talk back because she encouraged him!”

Evan immediately turned his attention back to Vivian through the video, his voice full of concern.

“Vivian is innocent. She doesn’t have any bad intentions. She only wanted to share something good with everyone.

“Be good. Apologize first. Don’t make things difficult for me.”

I looked at him and suddenly laughed.

“Evan, do you still remember what you personally promised in our Bet-on Agreement?

“Now it’s time for you to keep that promise.”

Without waiting for his reaction, I ended the video call.

I did not hesitate for even a second. I turned neatly, pulled my personal phone from my pocket, and called my brother.

“Lucas.

“Someone has forged documents and disrupted the normal operations of Grant Holdings.

“Tell Evan to get over here immediately.

“And have him bring the divorce agreement we prepared.

“Within five minutes, I want to see him kneeling in front of me, begging me to sign it.”