My Fiancé Lived With My Best Friend So I Left Chapter 10
Chloe lowered her head and said nothing.
After she left the meeting room, Vincent looked at me.
“Valentina Rossi, I wasn’t wrong.”
“Transferring you to the Northern Commission was the right decision.”
After that small incident, the team became much more polite to me.
I could not control what they said behind my back.
At least no one dared to reach into my work again.
The cargo line finally moved forward smoothly.
On the day of the signing, I went on stage as the person in charge.
The audience was full: partners, Commission members, and senior staff from the dock office.
I held the microphone tightly and finished the final page.
The screen went dark. The venue was silent for two seconds.
Then applause rang out.
At first, it was only a few people in the front row.
Soon, the entire hall was applauding.
“No wonder Vincent Romano transferred her here.”
“For her to revive this cargo line, she really does have ability.”
I put down the microphone, bowed, and slowly walked off the stage.
The old injury in my chest no longer hurt. I walked steadily.
The applause had not yet stopped when several subordinates gathered around me.
“Valentina, the partners kept praising you just now.”
“You absolutely can’t skip tonight’s celebration dinner.”
I smiled and agreed.
“All right.”
Vincent stood not far away.
Only after they finished speaking did he walk over and hand me a document.
“The post-signing advancement schedule.”
“You’re the person in charge. The follow-up will also be decided by you.”
I took the file.
“All right.”
He looked at me with a faint smile.
“The partner asked me earlier why I dared to give such an important cargo line to someone who had just taken over.”
I smiled too.
“What did you say, Vincent Romano?”
Vincent looked toward the stage.
“I said, now they know the answer.”
“Valentina Rossi, you did very well today.”
We chatted as we walked out.
But outside the venue, we saw someone who ruined the mood.
Damian had lost a lot of weight. He was holding a paper bag in his arms.
“Valentina.”
He walked up to me and handed the bag over.
“I fixed the little dog. I also had someone reissue your diploma.”
“I know doing this now is useless.”
His voice was terribly hoarse.
“But I wanted to make it up to you.”
The little dog plush had its eye sewn back on, and the diploma cover had been replaced.
It was so clean it looked as if nothing had ever happened.
But I did not take it.
“Damian, don’t bring these things here to disgust me.”
His face went pale.
I walked around him and continued forward.
He instinctively chased after me.
“Valentina, listen to me…”
The display rack beside us suddenly collapsed.
Glass shattered in front of him.
He fell to the ground, cuts bleeding across his body.
People around us cried out in shock.
“Call a private doctor!”
Damian seemed unable to feel pain.
With difficulty, he lifted his head and looked at me.
“Valentina, I’m hurt.”
In the past, if he scraped even a little skin, I would panic. I would buy medicine for him and put bandages on him.
When I heard him crying out in pain inside, I would also be so distressed I shed tears.
I stopped and looked at the staff beside me.
“From now on, don’t let unrelated people in again.”
The paper bag in Damian’s hand fell to the ground.
The little dog plush rolled out and got stained with blood.
Pain made sweat bead on his forehead, and his lips had turned white, but he still reached out with difficulty, wanting to pick it back up.
I walked past him without looking at him again.
Vincent stood at the entrance waiting for me.
“Are you going to the celebration dinner?”
I smiled and nodded.
“Of course.”
I walked out with my subordinates.
The private doctor had not arrived yet. Damian was still lying where he had fallen.
He looked in my direction and heard my inner voice.
[Damian, it’s too late for regret.]
[I don’t want those seven years anymore.]
[From now on, we are strangers.]
Later, Damian would occasionally run into me on the street.
Sometimes, he could still hear my inner voice.
But in every one of those thoughts, none of them had anything to do with him.
