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At Harriet’s thanks, Kelsey smiled and said, “By the way, Hara, I
wanted to ask you today if you could share some details about
the core of your patent technology. I’ve been getting into this
field lately, so I’m really interested.”
At Kelsey’s sense of entitlement, Harriet held her coffee cup in
her right hand and looked up at her.
Harriet stared at Kelsey for a long moment before finally saying,
“Kelsey, the patent technology is a project Galaxy Innovations is
currently developing. Even if the product were already on the
market, I still couldn’t share technical details with you. That
would harm Galaxy Innovations‘ interests.”
Looking straight at Kelsey, Harriet found it unbelievable.
How could she even ask about something so confidential?
At Harriet’s reminder, Kelsey didn’t get angry. She just kept smiling, “Hara, you’ve already received your patent fee. Don’t be
so serious! I just want to learn a bit. If you want, I can pay you
another patent fee, okay? Let’s just treat it as a private
exchange between friends.”
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In Kelsey’s memory, Harriet had always been obedient and well-
behaved.
Whether it was her or Ellsworth, whatever they asked Harriet to
do, she would quietly comply.
Even that night at the hotel, when the Townsend family asked
her to handle the rumors about her and Ellsworth, she did it
without a word.
Her family didn’t have much money, so a little cash was enough
to settle things.
At Kelsey’s nonchalance, Harriet calmly set her coffee back on
the table, looked up at Kelsey, and said, enunciating each word,
“Kelsey, I call you ‘sister‘ out of respect for your age, and
because I don’t want to fall out with another woman over a
man. After all, if it wasn’t you, it would be someone else.”
“But you’ve tried again and again to use my work, and now you
want to extract Galaxy Innovations‘ project technology from me.
Kelsey, what kind of person do you take me for? All along, it’s
not that I was too stupid to compete with you–it’s that I couldn’t
be bothered,”
“So please, don’t try to get close to me anymore, and don’t
expect to get any technical information from me. Don’t come
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looking for me again.”
With that, Harriet picked up her phone and bag from the table
and stood up.
Across from Harriet, seeing her call her ‘Kelsey‘ directly and
speak so bluntly, Kelsey’s face turned pale.
Was this still the Harriet she used to know?
It’s not like she wasn’t offering money.
Even so, Kelsey didn’t fall out with her. She stood up as well,
forcing a smile as she asked Harriet, “Hara, is it because of
Ells? Is it because I came back, because Ells likes me, that
you’re treating me this way?”
At Kelsey’s manipulative words, Harriet replied coldly, “Kelsey,
there are no outsiders here. You don’t have to talk to me like
that. If you like him, you can have him.”
With that, Harriet pushed past Kelsey, who was blocking her
way, and left without looking back.
Normally, Harriet had a pretty good temper, but Kelsey’s actions
today had truly infuriated her.
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How could she even think of asking her to betray Galaxy
Innovations?
It had been a long time since she was this angry, so Harriet’s
fury lasted all the way until she got home from work that
evening, and until she saw Ellsworth.
She hadn’t been that angry at first, but seeing Ellsworth,
thinking about how Kelsey treated her like a fool, how Kelsey
was his woman, and how Kelsey looked down on her–all of it
was because of him.
So, after opening the bedroom door, Harriet looked at Ellsworth
and said coldly, “Ellsworth, let’s go submit the application
tomorrow.”
At the bathroom door, Ellsworth was drying his hair. He looked
up and asked, “Did you swallow gunpowder?”
After Ellsworth’s explosive remark, Harriet’s attitude softened.
She spoke calmly and unhurriedly: “Your parents already know
about this, and even your grandfather didn’t object, so it’s better
to get it done sooner rather than later.”
Harriet’s voice was always pleasant to listen to, even when she
was angry, it was hard for anyone to stay mad at her.
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Listening to Harriet, Ellsworth kept rubbing his hair and let out a
short laugh: “My parents?”
After laughing, he didn’t nitpick her words, just asked
indifferently, “Weren’t we supposed to wait for the agreement
from the legal department?”
As soon as Ellsworth finished speaking, his phone, which was
on the cabinet, started ringing.
He turned around, walked over, and picked up the phone. It was
a call from Kelsey.
He tossed the towel he was using to dry his hair onto the
cabinet, then stood by the floor–to–ceiling window to answer the
call.
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