Chapter 18: Giving Up an Order worthy of Tens of Billions Casually​

Although Ernest had extended the time limit for her to hand in the design outline, it was the first time that Florence had played a leading role in such an important project and carried out the task alone, so she was busy with the project until getting off work.


She stretched herself lazily in her working position, stood to her feet and then headed towards the toilet.


The moment she walked into the toilet, she came across Elise.


Florence didn’t like her, so she didn’t intend to greet her and walked straightly towards inside.


Elise stared at Florence jealously and maliciously.


She stopped Florence and pushed her shoulder unscrupulously.


“You pushed yourself forward at today’s meeting in front of all staff of the company, are you feeling quite complacent now?”


As Elise had exerted great forces, Florence felt a sharp pain on her shoulder and took two steps backward uncontrollably.


She knitted her brows and warned Elise with detest, “Elise Bennett, we’re still in the company now. Don’t be physical and provocative.”


The company banned by explicit rules that fistfight or group scuffle were not allowed among its employees because such kind of actions would have a strong impact on the company’s reputation. It was also a big blow to a designer’s reputation.


Elise was indeed a person who knew what should be done and what shouldn’t; however, she had lost control of herself as she was extremely angered by Florence.


If it was not because of Florence, her design draft would have been selected and she would be the winner of the competition, which meant that she would be granted the opportunity to design the new president’s attire and that her status as a designer would be promoted.


Moreover, she saw Florence nestling in Ernest’s arms in the office yesterday. If it was not because of Florence, she would be the woman in his arms.


She should be the one who enjoyed all these, but the opportunities were snatched by Florence.


“Florence Fraser, you made me feel uncomfortable. Wanna peace? Your wish!” Elise took a step forward to snatch Florence’s phone, walked into a toilet cubicle and then threw it into the toilet bowl.


Florence stomped her feet in anger seeing her phone being thrown into the water.


“Are you insane?”


“It’s just a warning for you tonight. Florence Fraser, if you don’t leave the company on your own, I will not show mercy to you anymore. I will definitely ruin you.” Elise threatened her ferociously and then strode towards the door in high heels.


When she walked out of the toilet, she slammed closed the door.


Florence furrowed her brows remorsefully with a gust of fret surging in her heart.


She wished so much that Elise was not an employee of her company as she felt disgusted to be her colleague.




Florence took out some tissues and picked up the phone from the toilet bowl and then wiped clean the phone. Nevertheless, the phone had been damaged by water and could not be turned on.


She could only put the phone into her pocket as she didn’t have any other choices and then walked out of the toilet.


Nevertheless, when she reached the door and put her hand on the door handle, she found she couldn’t open the door no matter how much forces she had exerted.


The toilet was locked from outside?


The one who did this must be Elise Bennett.


Florence was so angry that she even became speechless. This woman was really so silly that she even locked her in the toilet.


She swatted the door, “Elise Bennett, hurry up to open the door!”


“Open the door! Can you not be so childish?”


“Elise Bennett, if you don’t open the door, I will tell the Director about this as well as the president! Let’s see how you will explain to them if I tell them.”


…


Florence shouted so hysterically that she lost her voice. Nevertheless, she still didn’t get any reaction from Elise and no one came to open the door for her.


Generally speaking, the staff of the company just got off work and some employees would come to the toilet during this period. But the weird thing was that no one came here.


As Florence had no idea about what Elise had done outside, she became more and more restless.


Was Elise going to lock her in the toilet for the whole night?


When thinking of this, Florence felt coldness creeping onto her back. She hurriedly turned around to lean against the door, but when looking at the row of toilet cubicle, she felt more terrified.


At nine o’clock in the evening…


There was no needless guess in YY International Hotel as apparently someone had made a block booking.


Two arrays of ceremonial usherettes in short dresses were standing at the entrance and greeting the guests in unison, their voice sweet and pleasant.


“Welcome, Mr. Hawkins.”


“Sir, Mr. James has arrived. This way please.”






A manager of the hotel led the way deferentially.


Ernest’s handsome face was expressionless as usual. Not looking sideways, he walked towards inside steadily and gracefully.


Timothy followed behind him. He pressed a button of his headset and said in a low voice, “Sir, Mrs. Hawkins gave a phone call to us just now and asked you to bring Ms. Fraser to have a meal at home on weekend.”


“Arrange it yourself.”


Ernest said casually as if he didn’t take this matter seriously.


Timothy was a bit stunned as he found that Ernest’s attitude towards Florence was a bit colder comparing to his attitude yesterday.


Did Mr. Hawkins lose interest in Ms. Fraser so quickly?


With the question in heart, Timothy walked out of the lift following behind Ernest.


The decoration of the whole restaurant was slap-up and magnificent. And the venue was quiet as there were no needless guests.


A handsome foreign man who looked like in his thirties was sitting beside the windows and sagacity and shrewdness could be found in his dark blue eyes.


He smiled at Ernest politely when seeing him and greeted in perfect English, “Mr. Hawkins, you’re very punctual.”


He arrived at the agreed time, neither earlier nor later.


“Mr. James, sorry to have kept you waiting.


Ernest sat opposite to James and got down to business after some polite formulas.


As this was a large order, the both parties attached much importance to it.


Both Ernest and James were elites in the business world and the subject of their conversation was something confidential. Their conversation was somehow smooth.






James became more and more appreciative of Ernest as the conversation moved on. He then raised his glass and said, “Mr. Hawkins, you’re really awesome. I believe that our cooperation will be a very pleasant one.”


“Cheers.”


Ernest also raised his glass to clink glasses with James. He looked quite composed and elegant.


They then negotiated on the details of the contract. Although the detailed matters were not primary, they were still important in this major cooperation.


But with a phone in his hand, Timothy suddenly walked over with a serious look.


He stopped beside Ernest, leaned over and then said in low voice, “Sir, something happens to Ms. Fraser.”


Ernest furrowed his brows, “What’s wrong?”


“I made a phone call to Ms. Fraser just now but she didn’t answer it. Her families said that she hadn’t come back. So I checked the timecards of the company and found that Ms. Fraser hasn’t clocked off. Nevertheless, the security guards of the company said staffs of all departments have gotten off work.”


It could be deemed as a coincidence if they couldn’t connect to Florence. Nevertheless, it was absolutely abnormal if she got off work without even clocking off.


Ernest suddenly stood to his feet and strode towards outside.


He felt unprecedentedly panicked as something had gone out of control and he was worried that something bad would happen to that woman.


James also stood up and looked at Ernest’s gloomily.


“Mr. Hawkins, we haven’t finished the negotiation of the contract. Where are you going?”


“I have something urgent to attend to. Let’s talk about it next time.”


Ernest walked towards outside without even turning around.


James’ expressions became even gloomier. He attached great importance to this cooperation and this was the reason why he came all the way here from France by plane to negotiate it in person.


But he hadn’t expected that Ernest would suddenly leave.


“Mr. Hawkins, is this your attitude towards our cooperation? If you simply leave like this, I will have to doubt the ability of your company.”


Ernest paused, his tall figure appearing to be a bit cold and stiff.


He then said in an indifferent voice, “Then we can cancel our cooperation.”


He strode out after finishing the words.


James looked at him in shock. He was so furious that even his face turned pale.


Timothy was also shocked. This was a large order and the company had been preparing for it for so long and wanted so much to facilitate the cooperation. Otherwise, Earnest would not have negotiated with James in person.


But now he casually gave up a large order that worthy of tens of billions simply because of Ms. Fraser…