SPOILED GIRL - Season 9 Episode 87

The necklace was not made for Nora. In fact, Darren had bought it to amuse Dina. However, Dina was very fussy and had not liked the gift, so she hadn’t accepted it.

Then, Darren had simply pushed the boat with the current and given it to Nora. It was an act of appeasement, aimed at silencing Nora so that she would keep her nose out of his business and not push for the divorce.

“You gave the necklace which you’d originally bought for me to that silly woman. Good one, it’s really amusing!” Dina was lying on Darren’s lap in the studio lounge and playfully tugging at his clothes from time to time.

Darren grabbed her naughty little hand and brought it to his lips for a kiss. “What you rejected is valueless in my eyes. It suits a trashy bitch like Nora best.

If you want, I’ll find someone to redesign it,” Darren offered with a wicked smile. Dina felt ticklish when he kissed her hands and couldn’t help laughing. “Really, I don’t want your stuff.” After that, she drew her hand back and rubbed it against his clothes as if she was wiping off dirt.

Darren was both intrigued and obsessed with her fluttering smile. He took her hand and put it on his aching chest. “You are such a heartless little beast.” Feeling his strong heartbeat under her hand, Dina blinked her big beautiful eyes and lifted her smile into an evil grin. “Darren, you know what?

The more heartless people are, the more ruthless they can be.” Dina lowered her eyes modestly as she began to untuck his shirt from his trousers, revealing his lean upper body. Her lips grazed his ribs as she teased him further.

Darren’s eyes were shining but he didn’t bat an eye. “Will you be ruthless to me then?”

‘Would I do that to him?’ Dina secretly asked herself.

‘In the beginning, this relationship with Darren had been like a game.

Is it necessary for me to invest my heart and soul into it?’ Dina suddenly raised her head and laughed instead of answering his question.

Darren was stunned because he did not know what she was laughing at, but he continued looking at her face with a smile. “Will you? Be…”

At that moment, someone knocked on the door of the lounge.

Dina instantly blocked Darren’s mouth with her finger, not allowing him to question her further. She tidied her hair and sat up, lowered Darren’s shirt, and called, “Come in.”

“Dina, Emily from SL is here. She wants to talk to you about the design idea for the latest event. So…” When the studio assistant noticed Darren, he did not finish speaking. There was speculation in his eyes as he waited uncomfortably for an answer.

“It’s her.” Hearing that it was Emily who was waiting, Dina spoke lightly.

In fact, Dina had invited Emily to come here because she wanted to see if Emily had been upset by the gift.

“Let her wait for a moment. I’ll be right there,” Dina instructed and disentangled herself from Darren.

“Darren, I have something to do now. Would you mind coming back later?” Looking at the door of the lounge which was discreetly closed, Dina leaned over and lowered her head to his brow, gently brushing her lips across his face.

She still marveled at how much she enjoyed hanging out with Darren. It was the first time that she felt good to have a man in her company. At least she no longer thought about the boy who had been so cruel to her every day.

“Okay. You just go ahead. Don’t worry about me.” Raising his hand, Daren touched her face and nodded contentedly.

Darren was a pale-faced, clean-shaven man with slender fingers like a pianist, which made it easy to see him as gentle or weak. Dina seemed to become absent-minded as she considered this strange lover she had chosen. She could not associate him with cruelty.

“What’s wrong?” Seeing that Dina was distant, Darren called gently to her.

“Nothing. I just suddenly realized that you are handsome.” A smile formed at the corner of her mouth, and Dina flicked her long, wavy hair.

“Okay, I’ve gotta go. See you later then.”

Leaving the lounge balanced on her six-inch heels, Dina soon arrived at the meeting room.

Emily had prepared her presentation in the conference room. When she heard the clicking of high heels, she knew that it must be Dina and immediately looked up at the door.

“Emily. Long time no see.” After the assistant opened the door, Dina walked in and glanced nonchalantly at Emily before seating herself at the head of the table. She was clearly establishing her position of dominance.

“Long time no see, Miss Dina. You’re such a busy woman,” Emily said with a polite smile.

After the cooperation of the two companies had been confirmed, Emily didn’t actually need to meet with Dina directly. She could just have asked her assistant, Joyce, or another team member, to come meet with her. But since Dina had insisted, she was left no choice but to come in person for the meeting.

“Surely no one is as busy as you? You are the really busy one, hmm.” Dina felt a taste of bitter irony, so she hummed her response.

She had once before given Emily a hard time with her design manuscript, but she had never thought that Emily could solve it so easily. Therefore, this time when meeting Emily again, she had to take the opportunity to embarrass her.

“Not at all. We just had some family matters to deal with lately, which is why I took some of my annual leave.” Emily did not want to respond directly to the attempted inquiry into her affairs.

“Oh? What happened? Nothing serious, I hope.” Dina found this news interesting and tried to push for more information. ‘It seems then that my gift has caused significant impact on Emily’s life, ‘ Dina congratulated herself secretly.

“Oh, it’s nothing to speak of. But thank you for your concern, Miss Dina.” Emily straightened her hair and decided not to engage in gossip with Dina, but rather got straight to the point.

“Miss Dina, may I know your opinions on this event?”

Dina was reluctant to lose the opportunity to fish for information, but work was work. Since Emily wanted to discuss it, she had no other option but to return to business. But she deliberately posed several tricky questions to Emily during the meeting, hoping to embarrass her.

However, those questions were all successfully answered by Emily one by one. Emily was a consummate professional in her trade, and she would not be bullied or swayed.

“Well, I have a clear idea of what kind of jewelry design you want. Please wait and see the results next time,” Emily assured her primly. At the end of their discussion, Emily put away her notebook and nodded to Dina with a smile.

“You’d better not let me down,” Dina muttered darkly.

After saying goodbye to Dina, Emily left the conference room. However, at the door, she turned and bumped into a staff member carrying some files.

“My gosh…”

Both of their files tumbled to the floor and became mixed.

“Sorry! I’m so sorry.” Seeing that she had knocked into a visitor, the woman turned pale with fear and immediately knelt to collect the scattered documents.

“That’s all right. I didn’t notice you there,” Emily consoled her kindly.

After Emily regained her balance, she shook her head and squatted down to help collect the documents, including her own.

Suddenly, Emily was stunned though when she picked up a handwritten paper.

“This is…” As Emily handed over the scribbled manuscript to the woman, her surprise was palpable.

‘This handwriting is very similar to the writing on the mysterious postcard, ‘ Emily thought.

“Ah, I’m sorry, but this is some of Dina’s rough speech notes from when she attended an event last week. She always writes them for the secretaries to type.” The woman had an apologetic face as she took the manuscript back from Emily and thanked her for helping.

“Thank you for your help.”

“You’re welcome,” Emily said, still distracted by the revelation as she stood up and left.

She had never thought that she would get such a windfall benefit from the meeting.