Chapter 848 - Mysterious Miss Young (2) (1/2)

Seeing that Faith arrived, Lily rolled her eyes. She was irritated that she got interrupted.

Faith glanced at Ellie and straightened her posture while talking to Lily in her business tone. ”Please leave before CEO comes back. If he sees you here again, I will not be able to keep my job.”

Ellie took a deep breath to calm her raging thoughts and analyzed the current situation. In her line of work, she meets all kind of unpleasant people from diva attitude models to spoiled heiresses who think that they can boss her and her staff around just because they are paying a small fortune for a garment. She knows how to maintain her outside composure no matter what she feels on the inside… she will cry it out later (if needed) when no one is watching. But at this time, she bottles it all in.

Ellie deducted that this woman, named Lily, is an employee here. And she is definitely interested in Jasper. Why else would she come here and talk such nonsense while trying to shake her up like she is a third wheel in an existing relationship? Based on how Faith treats her, Lily is not in a relationship with Jasper, and there is a good chance that she is stalking him… but Ellie recognized the thumb comment and she can't deny that it hit the nerve.

While Ellie observed Lily calmly, Lily looked at Ellie back ferociously, practically ignoring Faith.

Lily was frustrated that Ellie has such an unreadable expression. Didn't she get the hint that she is unwanted? She should not have any intentions toward Jasper because he is NOT available. He belongs to her and even if she needs to smear his reputation so that no other woman wants to come near him, she will do it. It's not her first time to swat all these flies away from Jasper, and she knows that Jasper is just having fun.

Lily must admit that she never did anything like this at work, but this is serious. The woman actually appeared here!

”Ellie!”, Jasper called from the door. His eyes were fixed on her and his charming smile was on.

He stopped in his tracks when he met Ellie's icy gaze which didn't match her neutral expression. It took him few seconds to notice that Lily is there (and Faith).

Jasper sighed internally. It's not a secret that Lily is interested in him, she made it clear more times than he wishes to remember. And he saw her scheming whenever she got a chance during social gatherings to keep other girls away from him. He didn't care then, since he didn't care about any of those girls. But… did she actually dare to say something to Ellie and cause a misunderstanding? Based on Ellie's attitude, the answer to that is: yes. What can he do? The only thing that comes to his mind is to show Ellie that in his eyes, she is the only girl.

He walked to Ellie like no one else is in the room. ”Was the drive here OK? I hope you didn't wait too long.”

Jasper reached to hold her hand, but she avoided it by shifting her purse.

Ellie's eyes narrowed slightly. ”Yes, CEO Kiani. The drive was OK. As for the wait… Miss Lily made sure to give me company as soon as your secretary stepped out to bring me water.”

Ellie walked to the sofa, took a seat and crossed her legs at the ankles. She placed her purse on the side and her hands rested on her lap.

”Is that for me?”, she asked Faith who was still holding onto the glass of water with ice and slices of lemon floating in it.

”Oh, yes, Miss Young. Sorry about that.”, Faith nervously placed the glass in front of Ellie.