Our Love Story: Hard to Guard Against the Sudden Love Strike-Chapter 187 - 185: Can I Love You?

Simon Forrester laughed, "You don’t like expensive gifts, you have opinions on cheap ones, why are you so hard to please?"

Sienna Thornton gave him a playful glance, teasingly, "If you think I’m hard to please, then you shouldn’t like me."

"Alright."

Sienna was still looking at the documents when she suddenly heard this unusually serious voice, which made her heart skip a beat, she raised her head to look at Simon.

She saw him staring at her with a serious expression.

She panicked, quickly stood up, moved to his side, sat on his lap, hugged his neck, and whispered, "I was joking, are you serious?"

Simon looked at her without any expression on his face.

She looked at him, equally surprised.

Although she hadn’t dated before, she’d heard that when men lose interest in women but don’t want to break up immediately, they often unconsciously or jokingly reveal signals that they’re about to leave.

In the past, when Sienna joked with Simon saying "then you shouldn’t like me", he always replied, "I can’t help it, I just like you", but today he seriously replied with "Alright".

Sienna was dumbfounded, her lips drooping, she withdrew her hand, stood up from Simon’s lap, and was about to return to her seat. As soon as she turned around, she was pulled back by him, and she quickly fell into his embrace.

He couldn’t hide the smile in the corner of his lips, held her, and murmured near her ear, "If I can’t like you, can I love you?"

She instantly turned her worry into joy, but her face still pretended to be sad, "Love and like are not the same, you need to love me and also like me."

He immediately laughed heartily, tapped her nose twice with his finger, pecked at the corner of her lips, and teased, "Greedy."

She lowered her eyes, touching finger to finger, with a grievance on her face, "So are you giving me or not, ultimately!"

"Everything for you, my all, everything..."

She pushed against his chest, "Hey, let’s focus on proper business first..."

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Sienna spent over an hour carefully going through the vast organizational structure of Forrester Group, discovering that the group’s management model belongs to a product divisional structure; the group headquarters retains personnel decisions, budget control, strategic deployment, and supervisory powers, while subsidiary companies have separate accounting and independent operations.

Yet the management structure of the headquarters follows a line structure. Several major departments are each responsible to a managing president, and the three managing presidents are accountable to the board of directors. Naturally, the chairman is Old Master Forrester, and the board members consist of several vice presidents, Matriarch Forrester, and Simon Forrester.

If Sienna successfully assumes the role of General Manager of the Legal Department, she would need to be accountable to the Deputy President of Legal Affairs Steven Chapman and the managing president in charge of the Legal Department, Zane Forrester.

"This Zane Forrester is your father, right?" Sienna asked.

Simon nodded, "You can’t directly call father’s name."

Sienna: "..."

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The next day, Sienna got up at seven, had breakfast, and returned to her room for makeup while Simon was still asleep.

She didn’t wake him, applied a sharp makeup on herself, and went to the wardrobe to change clothes.

By this time, Brimfield had entered autumn, and everything was cold and desolate.

Sienna stood in front of the dressing mirror put on the outfit she ironed last night.

The white slightly transparent silk blouse had deep blue splicing on the collar, cuffs, and buttons, with the same color buttons, and the collar tips adorned with two teardrop-shaped blue diamonds, complemented by a red bean paste-colored cross-color ribbon to the left and right, paired with a black high-waisted knee-length skirt, making her figure exquisitely charming and skin fair and fashionable.

She faced the dressing mirror to make the final arrangements for her outfit, Simon walked in, glanced at her, and smiled, "This outfit looks nice."

"It’s so expensive, it should look good." Sienna smiled, twirled in front of the dressing mirror, "Does the style seem too sharp?" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Simon buttoned up the buttons on the white shirt, "That depends on what kind of effect you want."

Sienna looked at herself in the mirror, pondering for a moment, "I’d better pretend to be a pig."

Simon laughed heartily, walked over, and placed the tie in her hand, "Come, help me tie the tie." With that, he bent slightly.

Sienna turned his collar up and started tying his tie, in less than a minute a beautiful tie was tied.

Simon took the suit jacket, embraced her as they left the wardrobe, saying as they walked, "Don’t worry too much, respond as needed, just take it as it comes."

Sienna nodded, not sure if she was really listening.

She had always worked at a law firm before, where the environment was relatively simple. A big group has deep waters, and now she has Simon’s mission, really afraid of not doing well and messing up, so the pressure is relatively large.

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By eight fifteen, they left the house, with Simon driving. They arrived at Forrester Group before nine.

Simon parked the car in the basement, led her to take the high-level elevator directly to the thirtieth-something floor of the CEO’s office.

The few secretaries and assistants in the CEO’s office were making coffee, having breakfast, chatting, and when they saw someone coming out of the special elevator, thought it was Bianca Fordham, quickly tidied up the stuff on the desk, and sat properly.

Moments later, seeing it was the Group’s princeling, Susan Quincy immediately came out warmly, "Young Mr. Ford, how come you have time to come today?"

Simon gentlemanly placed his hand on Sienna’s back, smiled, and introduced to Susan, "This is Lawyer Sienna Thornton, who is about to take the position of General Manager of Legal Affairs; I brought her for on-boarding today."

Susan discreetly glanced at Sienna, smiled, "Hello Lawyer Thornton, I’m Susan Quincy from the CEO’s office." Finished speaking, she asked Simon, "Do you need help opening Mr. Forrester’s office?"

Simon nodded, "Open it, I need to use it today." With that, he led Sienna across to a large office.

"This is my dad’s office, I usually work here." He said.

Sienna said nothing, quietly observing the surroundings.

Just when they took the elevator up, she noticed this was the third last floor, it should be the CEO floor, so there were three large offices, two meeting rooms, and a CEO office with several young men and women who should be the assistants and secretaries of various presidents.

The place was spacious, covered with sound-absorbing thick carpets, and stepping on it in high heels made no noise at all. Around were floor-to-ceiling windows, the lighting was very good, bright and sunny. Plus, there were no skyscrapers blocking it, so standing at the floor-to-ceiling windows allowed a view of the sunrise in the east afar. From a feng shui perspective, this design has auspicious signs of drawing wealth.

Sienna followed Simon into the CEO office, found a spot to sit in the sofa area.

Simon began to boil water, scald tea utensils, preparing to brew tea, waiting for the executive interview at nine thirty.

Sienna would first have a small executive interview before joining, mainly to introduce herself to the executives, mutual understanding of a future subjective work intent, and salary negotiation.