“I did nothing wrong. I didn’t smash the glass. I won’t apologize. I’ve already drunk the wine. If Mr. Guzman still wants to cancel the cooperation with our company, I can’t do anything about it.”
Looking at Zea’s cold eyes, Theo was stunned for a moment and unconsciously let go of her hand.
Zea immediately rushed out of the door. If she was a second later, she was afraid that she would vomit on the spot.
Zea rushed to the bathroom and felt like she was going to vomit.
She supported herself on the sink with her arms, trying not to fall down. Looking at the scarlet blood in the sink, Zea looked at her haggard face in the mirror and smiled bitterly.
After a simple cleanup, Zea was about to go out when she felt a surging pain in her stomach, which almost made her unable to stand.
Zea slid down slowly against the door. A waiter walked in. When he saw this scene, he was so scared that he called 911 on the spot.
The ambulance came very quickly. When Zea was pulled into the car, Theo and others just came out.
Zea was lying on a stretcher, covered with a quilt, with her head exposed, just passing by Theo and others.
Theo was afraid that the stretcher would hit Amber, so he immediately protected her in his arms.
“Can’t you watch carefully? What if it hits someone?”
Theo scolded angrily.
Amber pulled him.
“Theo, why are you so angry today? Didn’t you see that your sister was lying on the stretcher? The ambulance has come. She must have some disease. We should give them some leniency.”
“What disease? I think it’s just drinking. She doesn’t love herself. Does she still expect others to sympathize with her?”
Zea recognized Theo’s voice and a tear fell from the corner of her eyes.
The pain now made her unable to think about anything else and she could only let the emergency personnel carry her into the car.
She was sent to the hospital and after another round of examinations, it was already midnight when she was hung up with water.
Zea glanced at the wall clock.
Her 24th birthday was spent so miserably.
When she woke up again, it was already six in the morning. After hanging the drip, Zea checked out of the hospital.
When she got home, she found Theo sitting on the sofa with a serious face.
Seeing Zea come in, Theo snorted coldly.
“I just said a few words to you, but you dared to be angry and stay out all night. Zea, you are getting bolder and bolder.”
The back of her hand was bruised after the injection. Zea pressed it with her other hand and ignored Theo’s words and walked straight to the stairs.
She had just walked a few steps when she was grabbed by Theo.
“Zea, I’m talking to you. You are becoming more and more unreasonable. You treated Amber like that yesterday and she still spoke good for you. Now you have the nerve to get angry with me. Am I too good to you, so that you forget who you truly are?”
Theo’s voice was so heavy that Zea’s breathing stagnated.
Zea raised her head and met Theo’s eyes.
“I have never forgotten who I am. I am still a Simmons.”
Theo was stunned when he looked at Zea’s cold eyes.
This was the first time Zea looked at him with such eyes.
Zea shook off Theo’s hand.
“I want to rest. If you want to blame me, you have to wait until I rest.”
After saying that, he went upstairs by himself.
Theo looked at Zea’s back as she left and felt as if something was quietly slipping away.
Zea was too tired and fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow. When she woke up, it was already night.
Zea got up and went downstairs, only to see that it was pitch black downstairs.
These days, Theo's father and mother went out to travel and their helper was also on vacation, so only Zea and Theo were left at home.
Just as Zea was about to go downstairs, she heard a burst of light panting coming from the dim kitchen.
She walked downstairs slowly and as soon as she reached the door, she saw two figures overlapping in the open kitchen.
Zea felt that her mind was frozen in an instant and her breathing was about to stop.
Although she knew that Theo liked Amber and knew that there was no possibility for her and him, when she saw this scene with her own eyes, her heart still hurt.
The tears fell silently and she wanted to escape in a hurry like a loser.
But as soon as she turned around, she bumped into the vase shelf in the corner.
The vase fell to the ground and the jumping fragments scratched her ankles. She could no longer feel the pain.
The light was turned on.
Looking at the mess on the ground, Theo frowned and walked out with Amber.
“You are so impatient. Do you know how much the vase you broke is worth? This is my mother’s favorite blue and white porcelain.”
Theo did not notice the blood dripping from Zea’s feet at all and only blamed her.
“Theo, it’s okay, Zea didn’t mean it. It’s all your fault for not turning on the light just now and you insisted on dragging me in the kitchen…”
Amber didn’t finish her words and she reached out and touched her lips with a shy face. The meaning was already very clear.
Zea tightly grasped the corner of her clothes and tried to force herself not to look at the two of them.
“I’m sorry, I will compensate Aunt Judy with an identical one.”
After so many years, Zea still didn’t get used to calling Judy mom and Judy also respected her wishes and let her call her Aunt Judy all the time.
Theo snorted coldly at Zea’s appearance.
“Your salary may not be enough to compensate even if you work for a few more years. My mother treats you so well, but you still refuse to call her mother. You are such an ungrateful person.”
Zea didn’t know why she returned to the room. The scenes just now kept replaying in her mind.
It turned out that in Theo’s heart, she was just an ungrateful person who ate the Guzman Family’s free food.
Zea promised on the spot that she would definitely compensate for the vase.
After sorting out her mood, Zea sat on the bed, silent.
After sitting for a while, she checked the broken vase and took a breath.
1.396.473 dollars.
She smiled to herself. No wonder Theo said she might not be able to afford it.
1.396.473 dollars may be just the price of a necklace for Zea in the past, but for Zea now, it is a sky-high price.
Zea looked at the balance of her bank card. There was only more than 139.733 dollars in it and there was still more than 1.116.648 dollars short of 1.396.473 dollars.
It seemed that she could only find a way to make more money and return the 1.396.473 dollars to the Guzman Family.
After making up her mind, Zea packed her things again.
She didn’t have much stuff. She knew that she was living under someone else’s roof, so she never dared to make excessive demands. Unless Judy insisted on giving it to her, she would not take a penny from the Guzman Family.
She was busy until the middle of the night and then Zea fell asleep in a daze.
Zea got up early the next morning.
She was going to Guzman Group today to finalize the final details of the joint model.
As soon as she arrived at Guzman Group, before she even stepped into Theo’s office, Zea’s phone rang.
It was Zea’s colleague who called.
“Zea, we are in trouble. Guzman Group just sent an email to our company, saying that they want to cancel the cooperation with us.”
Zea frowned.
“How is it possible? Guzman Group necklace must be made in time for their anniversary celebration. If we go to other design companies now, they will not have enough time to redesign it!”
Besides, she had obviously drunk that glass of wine that night. Theo could not go back on his word.
Zea knocked on the door of Theo’s office with doubts.
As soon as she pushed the door open, she saw Amber leaning on Theo’s shoulder, feeding Theo biscuits attentively.
As soon as she saw Zea, Theo’s originally gentle eyebrows were visibly coated with a hint of disgust.
“Why are you here?”
“Why do you want to cancel the cooperation with our company?” Zea asked in a cold voice.
“Don’t you know why?” Theo raised his eyebrows and a trace of impatience flashed in his eyes.
“You scratched Amber’s hand that day and broke her wine glass, but you didn’t apologize.”
Zea paused.
He could do this to protect Amber.
“I drank that glass of wine according to your request. I did nothing wrong. Why should I apologize? That wine glass was her…”
Before Zea finished speaking, she was interrupted by Theo in a cold voice.
“Zea, don’t do whatever you want just because you are the adopted daughter of the Guzman Family. Although Amber has repeatedly pleaded for you, you should remember it. If you don’t apologize to Amber, don’t think about getting the cooperation of Guzman Group.”
Zea looked at Theo’s bottomless eyes and her heart seemed to fall into an ice cave, making her back cold.
She knew that Theo was serious.
She tightly grasped the corner of her clothes and slowly lowered her head.
“Amber, I’m sorry.”
Zea felt that her self-esteem was trampled under someone’s feet. The humiliation swept through her body, making her unable to raise her head.
But she needed this cooperation. If she won this contract, she would have a design bonus of 279.466 dollars.
She still owed the Guzman Family a blue and white porcelain vase.
She had to pay back her debt.
“Amber, although she apologized, it still depends on you whether to forgive her or not. If you are unwilling to forgive her, then I will still not agree to cooperate with their company.”
Theo’s words were like a knife, falling on Zea’s heart.
Now she was as humble as a mouse crawling in the dark.
“Okay, Zea has apologized, so don’t embarrass her.”
Amber’s light words hit Zea like a heavy hammer.
Zea slowly raised her head and looked at Theo coldly.
“Mr. Guzman, can we check the final details of the product now?”
Theo stretched out his hand to Zea.
“Since Amber has forgiven you, give it to me!”
Theo took the design draft handed over by Zea and signed his name without even looking at it.
After signing, Theo threw the design draft in front of Zea as if giving alms.
