24 - Poor Pretty Thing.

Sydney had just finished a meeting with the executives. She walked back to her office on the top floor of the company building, with secretary Ava following behind her.

While they were alone in the lift, Sydney asked. “How is the woman’s daughter doing?”

“She is adapting quite well.”

Sydney had kept to her promise about sending the daughter of the woman who had poisoned her to an orphanage.

“Good,” she said.

The lift opened and she walked out. She got to her office and paused by the door. She frowned when she saw what was sitting pretty at her desk.

“What’s that?"

Secretary Ava entered the office and observed the object. “It is a bouquet.”

“I know,” Sydney said, moving close to her desk. “I’m asking what it is doing here.”

“I have no idea how it got there.”

Sydney picked up the bouquet and checked the tag attached to it. Her frown deepened when she saw Julian’s name. They had been married for five years and he had stopped giving her flowers in the third year of their marriage. Rece