Chapter 317 The Mist
Blanche Capra and York Charlie didn’t stay at the hotel for long, they left separately to avoid being followed by the paparazzi.
Before they parted, Blanche Capra took York Charlie’s hand in the doorway of her room, still with a look of reluctance for him on her face.
York Charlie was annoyed to see her with this weak look on her face, as if he had done something wrong to her.
“Is there anything else you need? Nothing I have to rush back to work, I’m busy.”
If she hadn’t run to him yesterday, this wouldn’t have happened.
He was already being kind to her by holding back from getting mad at her now.
Blanche Capra hesitated for a moment, and the words of love she had all but reached her throat were withdrawn, replaced with a calm demeanor as she said lightly, “The bidding meeting is in two days, and I’ll be there then.”
“I know, you don’t have to remind me.” York Charlie broke her hand and looked back at her askance, “We’re enemies now, you know?”
“Know, I’m just saying, go for it at the bidding, I’ll only lose if you beat me.” Blanche Capra’s eyes drooped as she looked at the ground in a bit of a trance.
She didn’t want to be enemies with York Charlie.
The feeling of being defended by someone she liked was really too hard to bear.
York Charlie hadn’t expected her to say something like that, he had thought she was going to declare war on him.
Guess he didn’t have to keep suspecting Blanche Capra.
“I know, and so do you.”
After the two parted ways, York Charlie went back to his car and called Delia Field first thing – after all, he’d missed his appointment.
When the call came through, it was Delia Field’s slightly tired voice, “Hello?”
“It’s me, I’m sorry I didn’t go back last night, I-” York Charlie paused, he didn’t know what kind of excuse to use that wouldn’t arouse Delia Field’s suspicion.
Although he hadn’t done anything to apologize to Delia Field, this matter would definitely cause misunderstanding if she knew about it.
Before York Charlie could find a reason, Delia Field took the initiative to give him a step down, “I know, it must be very hard for you to work overtime for one night, I can understand you, I am just worried that you are too overworked and exhausted your body.”
Not only did she not get angry, but she even looked out for him and worried about him.
York Charlie was touched by this, and his guilt towards her grew deeper and deeper.
“I still have to go to the company today, you rest more at home, listen to your voice as if you are quite tired.”
Shouldn’t he have waited for him all night?
If that was the case, he was really guilty.NôvelDrama.Org content.
Delia Field’s voice was still so gentle and clear, “I know, you go ahead and get busy, don’t worry about me.”
Hanging up the phone, York Charlie was more than a little chagrined – he had lied to Delia Field again.
Still for Blanche Capra.
Damn.
Nothing good ever came out of a run-in with Blanche Capra.
York Charlie pulled the flash drive out of his pocket, thinking about the scene he’d woken up to this morning, and he couldn’t just let it go.
He asked his subordinates to look into the matter secretly, and right now, the most important task at hand was the bidding meeting.
This time the bidding meeting, he must not lose.
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In the blink of an eye, the bidding meeting will be held today, this city’s attention party will gather all the city’s famous enterprise groups, will decide the city’s future year’s economic revenue overall development.
York Charlie left for the hotel early in the morning, he was given the presidential suite to rest in and across the hall from Blanche Capra’s room.
The half day before the bidding session began had been nothing short of an ordeal for them.
Blanche Capra wanted to talk to York Charlie, but his door was marked “Do Not Disturb” and she had to retreat to her room.
She wondered what he was thinking right now.
York Charlie was lying on a soft recliner at the base, his eyes closed with an eye mask.
Crossed hands moving his fingers every now and then, underneath his seemingly calm exterior, he was actually more irritated now than ever.
Not only because the room across the hall was the Blanche Capra, but echoing in his mind at the moment was the call from his men, fearfully telling him the results of the investigation.
“I’m really sorry, we didn’t find the culprit who was snooping on company secrets.”
That couldn’t be helped; after all, York Charlie himself couldn’t guarantee that the person who had opened his flash drive hadn’t taken the contents and made it look bad.
But his instincts told him that things couldn’t be that simple.
Everything will depend on the outcome of the bidding meeting.
Half an hour before the start of the bidding session, the staff would go to the rooms one by one to invite the VIPs to take their seats.
As York Charlie thought, Blanche Capra was seated next to him.
Why couldn’t he ever get rid of her.
It was so irritating.
Seeing York Charlie press his brow, Blanche Capra thought he was uncomfortable and asked with concern, “What’s wrong with you? Not feeling well?”
He hadn’t gotten a good night’s sleep these days for the bidding meeting.
Worst of all, ever since the drunken night when he was haunted by nightmares, almost all of York Charlie’s dreams afterward had featured Blanche Capra.
She’s smiling, or in tears, or with vacant eyes, and he knows them all and follows the flow of her emotions.
Waking up, he looked at the empty spot beside him, his hand reaching out, still cold.
Instead of reassurance, the first sensation was to feel empty.
York Charlie did not want to have too much contact with her, so he simply did not respond, and did not even look at her.
The surrounding people see all secretly make fun of, Blanche Capra this is hot face to cold ass.
Blanche Capra a few eye knife kill over, with the intimidation of the other party forced the atmosphere do not dare to come out, she turned back, looking at York Charlie’s eyes are incomparably gentle.
This attitude gap is simply a world of difference.
Unable to stand Blanche Capra staring at him all the time, York Charlie moved to the side and finally spoke, “Can you stop looking at me all the time, I’ll feel uncomfortable.”
“Have I been looking at you?” Blanche Capra wondered, she didn’t mean to be provocative but was truly unconscious.
“Turn your face away, I get annoyed when I see it.”
“Oh …” Blanche Capra lowered her head in defeat.
Instead of improving their relationship now, it had worsened.
York Charlie was treating her worse than a stranger.
Fortunately, this awkward atmosphere did not last long, once the bidding session started, Blanche Capra was like a new person, her aura changed, following her target all the way until she took it.
York Charlie also reported the reserve price together, which was the price he calculated overtime, he thought he would not overlap with others, but he didn’t expect that there were quite a few consortium presidents present who had the same offer as him.
There was no doubt that his information had been leaked, and his previous preparations had gone down the drain.
In this way, the biggest winner of the bidding session was undoubtedly Blanche Capra.
The reserve price was announced, and it was the reserve price she quoted.
She was successful in her bidding and won a standing ovation.
Except for the man next to her, York Charlie.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t admit defeat, he always felt that Blanche Capra’s ability to take the bid was most likely related to the leak of his information.
When he found out more, it would all become clear.
In fact, York Charlie was not the only one who thought so, Blanche Capra also felt that her reserve price had been tampered with – only that she was so overwhelmed by the joy of victory that she didn’t notice anything strange.
It was only afterwards that she realized that her public reserve price had been different from the one she had originally reported.
What was this all about?