My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins

Chapter 200: Your Wife-to-be Has Run Away

Flustered, Florence hurriedly lowered her body to hide herself.

On the other side, Erica was making an arrangement and hadn’t got on the car.

When she saw Ernest, she stooped respectfully to greet him, “Good morning, Mr. Hawkins.”

Ernest had been in a good mood recently. He nodded as a response although his handsome face was still expressionless.

Erica seemed to be encouraged and continued with a smile, “Mr. Hawkins, you’re really good to Miss Fraser. You’re busy with your work every day, but you still come out in person to see off…” Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

Florence, who was hiding in the bus, felt nervous when she heard the words.

She tried to hide herself, but Erica exposed her at the next moment!

Florence was so anxious that she felt like her heart was going to jump out of her throat. At the critical moment, she grabbed her colleague’s bag and threw it out of the window.

With a loud sound, the bad landed right in front of Ernest.

Ernest stopped and looked towards the window coldly.

He was exuding a cold aura.

Florence’s colleague, the bag’s owner, stood up in a panic, “Mr. Hawkins, I didn’t throw it to you. It was…”

However, before she could finish her words, Florence tugged her sleeve.

Florence looked at her pitifully and said in an extremely low voice, “Tell him that you accidently threw it out of the window. I promise you’ll not be punished.”

Her colleague’s face became paler. She was in a dilemma, “But…” She didn’t dare to deceive Mr. Hawkins!

By the way, why did Florence act so weirdly? Mr. Hawkins was here, but why did she hide herself?

Fearing that Ernest would notice the commotion here and doubted something, Florence hastily told her colleague, “Jessica, if you tell him that it’s me who throws the bag, I will not admit it. Ernest will only believe in my words, but not yours.”

You would offend your CEO and his fiancée if you do that.

Jessica Leon’s forehead broke out into cold sweats. What sins had she done in her previous life that she had to suffer this in this life?

She looked at Ernest with fear and stammered, “I… I’m sorry, Mr. Hawkins. It slipped it down just now.”

Ernest took a cold and indifferent glance at Jessica and then shifted his gaze.

Ernest then left.

Then the stressed-out ambience in the car was relieved and everyone felt like they had survived a disaster.

Luckily, Mr. Hawkins didn’t go into it.

Jessica felt all the strength in her body were drained out and she slumped down onto the seat.

Florence popped her head out of the window and stole a glance at the direction where Ernest left. When she saw Ernest getting on the car that was parked by the roadside and left, she heaved a sigh of

relief.

Phew! Ernest almost found him.

Erica watched Ernest’s leaving and then rushed up onto the car and began to blame Jessica, “Jessica, what are you doing? Can’t you hold your bag? It fell down just now! Luckily, it didn’t hurt Mr. Hawkins, otherwise, you’ll be a dead meat! Since you were so careless just now that you almost angered Mr. Hawkins, you have to be punished. Your reward for this month will be cancelled!”

“What?”

Jessica felt more despaired.

Since Florence was the culprit of this accident, she felt sorry that Jessica was blamed because of her and hurriedly stood on her feet, “Erica, you mistake her. It was me who threw the bag, not Jessica.”

Erica changed her rigid expression into an amiable smile when she saw that it was Florence.

“Miss Fraser, she was wrong. You don’t need to defend her.”

“You really misunderstood her. It was me who threw the bag out of the window. Everyone in the bus has witnessed it. Please don’t punish her. You can deduct my reward.” Florence said with a resolute look.

Jessica looked towards Florence surprisingly. Because of her defense, her resentment towards Florence disappeared.

But how would Erica deduct Florence’s reward? It was Mr. Hawkins to decide on the employees’ rewards every month. Even if she wanted to punish Florence by cancelling her rewards, she was not qualified to do so.

Erica was a sensible person and she figured out why Florence threw the bag out of the window after pondering for a while.

Why did she throw the bag when she was talking to Ernest? It was because Florence wanted to interrupt her.

Moreover, why Florence, Mr. Hawkins’ fiancée, refused to show up when Mr. Hawkins walked pass the bus, not to mention greeting him.

Erica hesitated for a while and then asked tentatively, “Miss Fraser, are you dodging Mr. Hawkins?”

She was truly the team leader as she came to the point so quickly.

Other people in the bus all glanced at Florence.

Florence felt a bit guilty. If she told them that she secretly ran away from Ernest, would they have the courage to bring her to Riverside City?

Although they were respectful to her, but Ernest was the big boss in the company.

“Why do I evade him? We’re in the company and it’s working time now, I can let my relationship with Ernest affect our work. Moreover, he went to deal with some urgent business affairs just now and he told me about that before. I don’t want to waste his time.”

They finally understood when they heard Florence’s explanation.

It turned out that Mr. Hawkins had told Florence about that before and therefore Florence didn’t want to waste his time.

Erica flushed because she felt embarrassed. She had a small conversation with Mr. Hawkins just now, but it turned out that she was wasting his time.

She shouldn’t have done that!

But Jessica had seen clearly just now how Florence hided herself when Ernest walked over.

Apparently Florence’s purpose was not to avoid public attention.

She took two more glances at Florence and then said, “Erica, since it’s a misunderstanding, then just let it over. It’s late now and we should set off.”

Since someone was mediating the matter, Erica happily accepted it.

She immediately shifted the topic and said, “All right, has everyone got on the car? Driver, please set off, let’s go to Riverside City.”

The driver then started the bus and slowly drove away from the company.

Looking at the Hawkins Tower that was going back out of the window, Florence finally felt a bit relieved.

She successfully ran away!

Florence curled up her lips into a triumphant smile. Ernest, see you half a month later.

After getting off the work…

In the VIP underground parking lot, Ernest sat in the car to wait for Florence, but she still didn’t come after a long while.

He raised his arm and took a glance at his wristwatch.

It had been more than half an hour after the office hours.

Where was that woman?

Could it be that she was working overtime? But Ernest remembered that he had specially told Anthony not to let Florence work overtime.

Ernest slightly frowned and then ordered, “Timothy, go upstairs and see what Florence is busy with.”

“Yes, sir.”

Timothy got off the car and went upstairs.

He then came back alone after a short while.

A trace of light flashed across Ernest’s eyes when he saw Timothy coming out alone. He had realized something.

Ernest pressed his lips together and looked at Timothy coldly.

Timothy secretly wiped away the cold sweats on his forehead. Standing beside the car window, he reported to Ernest nervously, “Sir, Miss Fraser went on a business trip to Riverside City together with her colleagues in the design department.”