Our Love Story: Hard to Guard Against the Sudden Love Strike-Chapter 196 - 194: Director Forrester’s Girlfriend
From early in the morning, Sienna Thornton was not in a good mood, always feeling as though something was weighing on her heart, making her quite uneasy, to the extent that even lunch tasted bland.
She gritted her teeth, greeted Steven Chapman, grabbed her car keys, and personally went to SY.
The receptionist at SY recognized her as a lawyer from Vantage and a client of SY, but since she hadn’t made an appointment, they wouldn’t let her go upstairs. So she called Harrison Rowe, who personally came down to escort her.
Harrison was very attentive, personally taking her to the third floor and, before she even asked, directly said, "Lawyer Thornton, you didn’t say in advance; Mr. Forrester just went out."
Sienna’s tone was chilly, "Did he mention where he was going?"
"It seems he said he was going to the old residence for lunch."
"Then I’ll wait for him in his office."
"Alright then."
Harrison opened the door to Simon Forrester’s office and then went off to attend to his own business.
Sienna sat down on the sofa in the reception area, admiring this office that had amazed her from her first visit.
The environment was as always clean and tidy, the ceiling made of steel and glass, with lush trees shading half of the skylight, and light pouring through the gaps in the leaves, providing ample lighting and giving a sense of warmth without being suffocating.
As she admired this office like a piece of art, Sienna’s thoughts gradually drifted to Simon Forrester.
There’s no denying that Simon Forrester’s qualities are indeed outstanding: highly educated, handsome, capable, and with an unusual family background—such a man indeed easily becomes the object of a woman’s secret admiration.
Just that ordinary women don’t have access to him, but anyone who does would probably dream of such a man noticing them, right? However, some women only linger in the realm of fantasy and don’t actually try to get involved with him, while others are different—they dare to think and dare to act.
These days, even married men with children attract young girls; what about single men with Simon Forrester’s qualities?
Sienna thought more and more pessimistically, couldn’t sit still for a second, and got up to leave the office.
She knew the designers all worked on the second floor, so she took a stroll around there, hoping to run into Nina Sinclair. But as she walked, somehow she ended up at the legal department.
She stood at the entrance and glanced inside. It wasn’t a particularly spacious office, with two rows of desks facing each other, a middle-aged man with glasses sitting at the back; the arrangement formed a T-shape.
Five or six young ladies were engrossed in their work, stacks of contracts and designs piled around them.
Sienna glanced a few times and was about to leave when suddenly, she heard a male voice behind her calling, "Hey, it’s this way, come on in."
She turned around, looked at the only man in the office, and pointed to herself, "Me?"
"Yes, come in quickly, we’re short-handed!"
She walked in and asked, "Need my help?"
"Yes, we have a ton of contracts and designs that we can’t copy and organize fast enough." After finishing, the man called out to another young lady, "Lewis, bring out those urgent contracts and designs and let this colleague help with the copying."
The girl named Lewis immediately took the stack of contracts from her desk to the table next to the copier.
Sienna walked over, glanced at them, and asked, "When are these contracts needed by?"
"By the end of the day, so we need to hurry."
Sienna flipped through a few pages, thought to herself, it’s Simon Forrester’s business; she might as well help out since she was free anyway.
She stood there copying for a while, seeming like the man who was the little boss of the legal department went out, and the other young ladies started chatting.
She stood aside copying contracts and kept silent.
What could young ladies gathered together talk about? Usually, it’s about fashion, gossip.
They chatted about current fashionable makeup techniques, and the topic started venturing into gossip territory.
At first, they talked about how Harrison Rowe broke up with his first-love girlfriend of five years and got a wealthy new girlfriend, then about how Logan Lockwood had recently hooked up with some young celebrity, and in the process, someone praised Simon Forrester, saying he leads a clean life and hasn’t been seen tangled up with women.
As soon as Simon Forrester was mentioned, Sienna pricked up her ears.
At this moment, another girl lowered her voice and said, "Oh, you guys don’t know, do you? I heard Director Forrester has a betrothal with a design department girl from Jane Sinclair."
"No way! I heard last year Director Forrester had a girlfriend! She’s a lawyer and even brought her to Norport!"
"That was over ages ago! I heard last time she came over causing trouble for Director Forrester because of the DK case, and he was so enraged he completely cut ties with her!"
Sienna: "..."
"It’s a real pity, I heard that lawyer was very beautiful, supposedly a Harvard JD."
"What’s there to pity about? The Forrester Family will definitely have Director Forrester marry a girl who matches their status; even if girlfriends are sweet, they’re just transitional..."
"True, for a man like Director Forrester, marrying him is like hitting the jackpot, and after marrying, you still have to have the fortitude of being the official wife to maintain the marriage, as there aren’t just one or two women pining for him..."
Sienna: "..."
The ladies chatted for quite a while, perhaps feeling it’s not right to leave the colleague who came to help to the side, so one of them casually greeted, "Hi, are you from the design department?"
Sienna: "No."
"Then who are you?"
Sienna slowly turned around and smiled, "I work in law too."
The girls looked at each other, and right then, Harrison walked in, shouting, "Are those contracts ready yet?"
The girl named Lewis looked at Sienna, somewhat impolitely asked, "Are the contracts copied yet?"
It was only then Harrison noticed Sienna standing by the copier, his expression shifted slightly, and he hurried over, smiling again, "Lawyer Thornton, why aren’t you waiting in Mr. Forrester’s office? He should be back soon."
Sienna handed the contracts to him, smiled, "No need, I have other things to attend to, I’ll be taking off. No need to tell him I stopped by."
After speaking, she nodded to the girls and left SY’s legal department.
As soon as she left, Harrison slapped the contracts heavily onto the table, made a gesture of slicing his neck with a hand, and scolded with a stern face, "You girls dared to have Mr. Forrester’s girlfriend copy your contracts? None of you want to work anymore?"
Everyone: "..."
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Meanwhile, Simon Forrester, who had returned to the Forrester family’s old residence, was having lunch with Old Master Forrester.
"Grandpa, there’s something I must ask your help with."
Old Master Forrester was very happy that his grandson suddenly appeared at the old residence to accompany him for lunch and immediately agreed, "Good! Tell me, what needs my help?"
Simon Forrester put down his chopsticks, considered a bit, and said, "Can you persuade Uncle Sinclair to talk to Nina, to look for another job? My office needs to downsize lately."
Old Master Forrester raised his eyebrows, glanced at his grandson, and laughed, "Why the sudden need to downsize? Poor performance? Do you need grandpa to invest some capital?"
