Faux Vows, True Desires

Chapter 340

Lucinda stayed mum for a bit, but ultimately didn't say anything.

She put down the documents she was holding, took the cup of water Jennifer handed her, and headed to the staff break area to make Jennifer a cup of coffee which she wanted.

At that time, her workspace was on the third floor, a mixed office space for the staff of various departments.

Although Lucinda's title was assistant manager, she had never met her direct superior and was always stuck doing all the grunt work. Anyone could boss her around since she was the new kid on the block.

After Lucinda left with the cup, a woman said to Jennifer, "Jennifer, you shouldn't treat her like that. Even though she's new, you can have her print documents or deal with useless paperwork, but making her brew coffee for you is a bit too much."

Jennifer scoffed, "I'm her senior, she's supposed to make coffee for me. What's so wrong with that? When we first started, we did the same. Anyone with professionalism wouldn't even need me to ask, they'd be proactive about making me coffee, even getting me breakfast and late-night snacks. If you guys are jealous, you can have her do stuff for you too. She's new, so she won't complain. I don't know what she was hired for, the company hasn't even given her a specific job. I bet HR only hired her because of her name. It's the same as the boss' wife, but she doesn’t have the same status. She's so plain, even if the boss was blind, he wouldn't give her a second look."

The woman shot back, "I only said a couple of things, and you've gone off on a tangent about the boss' wife. Do you think you're qualified to talk about her? There are plenty of people with the same name in the world, her being called Lucinda doesn't affect you. Don't get ahead of yourself just because you've seen the boss, thinking you're the heroine of some novel. You don't dare say anything to the boss' wife, so you are taking it out on the newbie with the same name."

Jennifer immediately bristled, "Linda, are you saying you never dreamed of such things? Our boss is young and talented, he's a cut above no matter how you look at it. I like him, what's so wrong about that? Is it a huge crime for me to like him?"

Linda fired back at her, "Sure, I've dreamed of that, but at least I'm still single. Your daughter is already in kindergarten, he wouldn't be interested in you even if he couldn't get a wife. We all know what you're thinking and doing. You treat Lucinda like a maid every day, you're not even her direct senior."

While Linda was defending Lucinda, she was really just fed up with Jennifer.

Lucinda came out with Jennifer's cup, hearing Linda and Jennifer's quarrel, she inwardly smirked, “It turns out that there are a lot of people here who likes Stefan.”

She had only just started working there and had already heard female colleagues talking about Stefan more than once in private.

Almost everyone on that floor had never seen Stefan.

The only exception was her.

Jennifer had never seen Stefan up close, she had only seen him from afar.

Even so, the female colleagues couldn't help but fantasize about becoming the heroine of a novel, starting a fairy-tale love story with the boss.

But the boss was taken by a girl named Lucinda.

At first, they heard that Lucinda came from a humble family and only got to know the boss because of her brother. Then, Lucinda's background was revealed, she was the young miss of the Blue family, set to inherit billions from her biological father.

She and Stefan became a match made in heaven.

But those who admired Stefan were very jealous of Lucinda.

All the dramatic plot points from the novels happened to Lucinda. She became the luckiest woman!

Who would dare to disrespect the boss' wife at Ascend Global?

At that moment, they found a newbie with the same name as the boss' wife to bully without restraint.

Lucinda walked past as if nothing had happened.

"Jennifer, your coffee is ready," She handed the coffee to Jennifer.

Jennifer took the cup, opened the lid, took a sip, and immediately started to berate Lucinda, "What kind of coffee did you make? This coffee is too bitter and too hot, are you trying to scald me to death? Lucinda, are you upset with me for bossing you around, so you deliberately made such a disgusting coffee with such hot water so that I can’t even enjoy it?"

With Jennifer's loud criticism, everyone in the office looked over at them.

Lucinda maintained her poise and she said, "The coffee in the break room is brought from home by everyone, the boxes of coffee all have everyone's names on them, I used the coffee you brought from home."

If she had a complaint about the coffee, it was her own coffee.

If Jennifer wanted her to brew high-grade coffee from ordinary coffee, she was sorry she didn't have that kind of skill.

Jennifer was left speechless.

"The water for brewing coffee is supposed to be hot. If you somehow want coffee brewed with cold water, I can use cold water next time. I'm a newbie so I still don't understand everything. I'm grateful that Jennifer gives me the opportunity to do things, rather than letting me sit around doing nothing, why would I hold a grudge against her?"

Everyone letting her do things, even if they were trivial, it was better than sitting around and doing nothing.

She just graduated and started a coffee shop with Cecilia. She knew how to make coffee, make pastries, but she really didn't know anything about office work.

Doing odd jobs, running around, she could familiarize herself with the office layout of different departments, understand everyone's job scope, and get a lot of inside info.

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Jennifer provocatively called out Linda.

Linda glanced at Lucinda and said, "Lucinda, you don't have to be afraid of Jennifer. We all see it, Jennifer's only picking on you because you're new. If you have any complaints, just let us know."

"I don't have any complaints."

Lucinda might be a rookie in the workplace, but she was no fool. And Linda was no Good Samaritan; she was just setting up traps for her.

She picked up the useless files that Jennifer had her rip up, and told the two, "I'm gonna deal with this junk."

And with that, she scooped up the pile of papers and beat it.

A few steps out, she spotted Edgar.

She wasn't sure what Edgar was doing downstairs. He was tailed by a bunch of people in suits, all looking at him with reverence.

The moment Jennifer and the others noticed Edgar, they put on a show of being engrossed in their work.

No one knew how long Edgar had been there or what he'd seen or heard about the recent incident on their floor.

Jennifer and Linda were scared out of their wits, worried that Edgar might have overheard their conversation.

That day was a really weird day. Edgar had actually come up to the third floor.

For the rank and file, Edgar was like the company's big shot, someone they couldn't just run into. Bumping into Edgar was like a commoner running into the Emperor.