My Sweetheart

Chapter 157 Getting Used to Change

After he heard this Joseph raised his eyes, at this moment his expression that was usually calm was now rather apathetic.

“Are you looking for a fight?” Joseph leaned back in his chair, pinched his eyebrows together and relaxed his expression slightly.

“If you don’t mind then I’ll take you up on that offer.” Lincoln said rather faithfully, and as he saw Edith enter he then said, “Edith if there is something you need then just say it.”

Edith frowned, she had heard that Joseph was not in a good mood today so she came to check up on him, however with Lincoln also here, she decided not to ask too many questions.

“I’m new here, Sir, is there any work you want me to do?” Edith asked instead.

Joseph raised his head and instructed John to come in and take Edith out to find some tasks to do.

Lincoln narrowed his eyes as he saw Edith leave and then looked at Joseph and asked.

“I saw your pretty girl, but honestly speaking she is unsuitable for you.” Lincoln pointed out sharply.

Johnson also said the same thing before. They both had grown up together with Joseph and therefore understood the Joseph family very well. The future woman of the house in the Joseph family must be beautiful, smart and absolutely a one in a million woman.

“If you have just come here to give me advice then you can please leave.” Joseph said in the most polite way possible.

Lincoln touched his chin and noticed that Joseph had an unusually irritable mood today so he couldn’t help but ask, “Did you argue with her today?”

“It’s none of your business.” Joseph frowned.

“Joseph, I noticed that Kathy seems both kind and gentle, and you like this type…” Lincoln recalled Kathy’s calm appearance; however he felt that this girl also had thorns on her body.

It just was not certain when these thorns would prick Joseph.

“Mr. Fletcher, since you seem to be so unoccupied recently, there is a new project in South Africa, I want you to go oversee…”

“No, no! I will go help you do whatever you need me to do now. I can’t leave, I can’t leave City N!” Lincoln said angrily.

As he saw Lincoln leave, Joseph lowered his eyes and put his hands together.

After a while he called John inside and said, “Next week there will be a press conference and grandpa will also be attending, so please make any necessary arrangements.”

“Ok no problem Sir.”

At this moment Edith knocked on the door to enter and said, “Sir, here is your coffee with one spoonful of sugar.”

Joseph nodded and did not look at her again. Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

Edith felt slightly awkward, but didn’t leave. It was clear she had something she wanted to say.

Joseph frowned however Edith had already walked towards him, the two of them were extremely close.

“Sir, I know that you are preparing to do some research and development for a new drug and I just want to say that I have experience in this, therefore I would like to apply to take charge of this project.” Edith said.

Joseph looked at her and thought about how they were still selecting someone to take charge of this project. However because Edith had just started working here she was not someone he was currently considering.

However as he considered her qualifications, this made her the most suitable candidate at this moment.

“Alright, then you can take charge of this project.”

“Thank you Sir.”

“Edith, I advise that you stay in Hospital Number 1, there is no need for you to come to the Joseph’s group.” Joseph said quietly.

Edith had been working in Country C throughout the year and had been progressing well there. But if she only came here because Lincoln advised her to then this really would be too much trouble.

Although she could continue to work in the medicine field, this completely altered her career path.

It was just that Joseph never paid any attention to this.

When the evening arrived, it was time to finish work.

Kathy rarely stayed at the office after work so Alexia came over to speak with her, “I don’t remember giving you so much work.”

“I am doing some overtime by choice.” Kathy smiled.

“I think you are waiting for Joseph to come get you right?” Alexia seemed to understand clearly what the reason was.

When she heard the name Joseph, Kathy’s face suddenly sank which made her hit her keyboard a few times which frightened Alexia.

“Kathy, don’t tell me that the two of you had an argument?” Alexia’s face was now full of concern.

Kathy didn’t say anything; instead she forced herself to pay attention to her work.

Since Alexia was getting no response she continued to accompany Kathy because inside she felt very worried about her.

Alexia’s phone rang many times up until 9pm; however she didn’t answer any calls and in the end decided to just turn her phone off.

Not long after a tall and handsome man walked in which surprised Alexia, which made her immediately went to find a place to hide.

When Johnson came in he only saw Kathy and frowned suspiciously. He checked and saw that Alexia hadn’t clocked out yet which meant that she was still in the office.

“Kathy, have you seen Alexia?” Johnson sounded a little anxious.

Kathy paused and then looked around. It was clear that Alexia was still here with her.

She frowned and since she knew that Alexia wanted to avoid Johnson she shook her head, “It seems she left work long ago now.”

“Alright.” Johnson replied and as he left he looked around the room one more time.

Once she saw that Johnson had left, Alexia came out from inside the storage room and sighed a breath of relief, “Thank god.”

“What happened between you and Johnson?” Kathy asked full of concern.

Johnson and Alexia had been getting close for a long time, and it was not rare for there to be a scandal about them spread around in the office; however no one really paid any attention to it.

Kathy and Alexia had been good friends for many years now; however Alexia never let Kathy worry for her.

“It’s nothing, just let it be.” Alexia said at a loss.

She never expected this relationship to happen, however Johnson constantly pursued her and in the end she gave into him and was unable to reject him.

“So you just willingly go out with him?” Kathy’s tone was a little angry.

Alexia was silent.

Then at this moment, Johnson who had already left unexpectedly came back, therefore Alexia had no time to conceal her sadness because Johnson had already clasped her wrist.

“Johnson, could you please be a little more respectful!” Alexia tried to pull away from him.

However Johnson just snorted coldly and was not going to let Alexia refuse him, “Alexia, stop hiding from me!”

“I’m not! I am doing some overtime; can you not see that I am busy?” Alexia pointed towards the pile of documents on the desk.

However Johnson didn’t even look at the pile and instead held Alexia trying to make her leave with him. Kathy lowered her face to avoid Johnson’s gaze who was in front of her and said, “Did you not see that Alexia is busy?”

“It’s up to me whether she is busy or not.” Johnson had a very cold look in his eyes.

“Johnson, could you please let go of Alexia. She doesn’t want to leave with you.”

“Really?” Johnson smiled rather playfully and then lowered his head to look at Alexia who was still struggling to get away from him. He then strengthened his grip on her and said, “Alexia, are you sure you don’t want to leave with me?”

Alexia’s eyes met with his which made her fearful and decide to just give in to what he wanted.

“Kathy, you should leave here soon, I have some things I need to do with Johnson.”

Kathy frowned, and since this was Alexia’s decision she decided to not get involved with the two of them.

When she sat down she didn’t realize that the time was already midnight. She turned on her phone however saw that there were no missed calls from Joseph.

If things were normal then he would have been the one to call her first and come to collect her on time.

However now he did none of these things anymore.

Getting used to these changes was proving to be extremely difficult.