Mr. Powell Is Hunting for His Wife

Chapter 54: Brooklyn’s Schemes

“I’m sorry, Mr. Gibson.” Diana’s voice was extremely soft, almost making Harper’s legs weakened. Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

Harper couldn’t help but shiver. “Anna, could you speak in your normal tone, please? I can’t stand it...”

In his opinion, Diana had an ambiguous relationship with Mr. Powell.

If Anna kept speaking to him ambiguously and Mr. Powell found it out, Harper was afraid that Mr. Powell would fire him.

Not to mention others, in the incident that happened this afternoon, Mr. Powell was obviously partial to Anna. If they looked into the matter, probably Ashley wouldn’t have lost so fast. However, Mr. Powell didn’t send anyone to investigate and instead he compared their perfumes.

How could Ashley be comparable to Anna in terms of the blending skills?

Hence, she suffered a big defeat.

Diana turned around and put her finger on her lips to hint at Austin and Emily, who were sitting in the backseat, to keep silent. Then she continued, “Mr. Gibson, could you please send my message to Mr. Powell? I’m not interested in becoming the manager of the perfume department at all. I only want to be his assistant. Would it work?”

It would be quite convenient for her to obtain Mirabelle’s whereabouts on time if she stayed to be Brooklyn’s assistant.

If she were transferred to the perfume department, how would she be able to get Mirabelle’s information?

She didn’t work here for the money.

Upon hearing her request, Harper was unable to answer her for a moment. Others always wanted to get promoted and raised in salary. He wondered why Anna wanted to be Mr. Powell’s assistant s much.

Probably she fell in love with Mr. Powell at the first sight, didn’t she?

For the sake that he had a good relationship with Diana, Harper reminded her calmly, “Anna, I must tell you one thing -- Mr. Powell has already had a fiancée. It’s not good for you to do so.”

Diana slightly rolled her eyes.

How come all others felt that she must like Brooklyn?

“Mr. Gibson, I want to be Mr. Powell’s assistant not because I love him, but because he appreciates my blending skills,” Diana lied expressionlessly.

Harper was speechless.

He had never seen a person who could make her secret admiration so high-sounding.

“All right. I’ll pass your message to Mr. Powell.”

“Thank you so much, Mr. Gibson. I’ll treat you for dinner when you are free.”

Harper shook his head immediately. He didn’t want to be fired by Brooklyn now.

“Not necessary, Anna. Thank you, though.”

Harper hung up the phone and passed Diana’s message to Brooklyn.

Brooklyn frowned slightly.

“Did she truly say that?”

Harper nodded.

He was quite worried. As an assistant and secretary to Mr. Powell, he didn’t think he should get involved in his boss’ personal life.

However...

“Mr. Powell, I wonder if Anna has a crush on you... If Mrs. Moss and Mrs. Powell knew it, probably Anna couldn’t stay in Sliwell City at all.”

Those women from rich families had a lot of cruel means.

Since Harper worked for Brooklyn, he had seen a lot of rich women persecuting women with no background.

Brooklyn had a meaningful smile on his face.

Did Anna have a crush on him?

From the way Anna looked at him, Brooklyn didn’t see any love. She pretended to be quite mature, but he guessed that probably she had never fallen in love before.

Brooklyn’s slender fingers slowly knocked on the desk. He realized that Anna had her purpose to stay by his side.

“Mr. Powell, what do you think about it...”

Harper’s voice brought Brooklyn back to his senses.

“Let her stay,” Brooklyn uttered a few words.

Harper was silent, wondering why he felt as if he was between a couple who were in fighting.

...

In the Michelin three-star restaurant.

Emily was eating the cake, her cheek stained by the cream.

“Mommy, you said a bad woman set you up today. Who called you just now? That wicked woman?”

Diana shook her head. She pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the cream off Emily’s face and answered, “The bad woman was far worse than her.”

Mirabelle was so fierce that she shad stabbed Diana from her back.

She took the action without any sign, making Diana off-guard. When Diana found it, it was at the most critical moment and her life was in danger.

Compared with Mirabelle, Ashley was far less capable.

Emily nodded but not fully understood.

“Austin, don’t you want to eat the cake?” asked the girl.

Austin pulled out his handkerchief elegantly. After wiping the corners of his mouth, he took out his tablet.

After a few minutes, he found the information he wanted, his black eyes sparkling. “Mommy, is that woman’s name Ashley?”

Diana was drinking wine. If it weren’t that Harley had educated Diana according to the rich families’ etiquette, probably she would have sprayed the wine from her mouth.

“How did you find it?”

“It’s not difficult. Her resignation is the headline of the economy section.” Austin passed his tablet to Diana. “She’s one of the important perfumers in Daddy’s company, quite famous in the perfume business of Sliwell City. Before you came in town, the wicked woman was the chief perfumer, and Ashley was on the second place.”

Diana couldn’t help but bitched about it, “It turns out that’s the blending level in Sliwell City...”

She lowered her head and glanced at the news.

The news said that Ashley resigned from Powell Group and predicted that the candidate for her current position might be the mysterious perfumer who promoted the cooperation between Powell Group and Hillvie Group.

Diana was silent. The media was way too good at gossiping.

“Mommy, you don’t want to take over that position, do you?” asked Emily naively.

Diana gently hummed to answer.

Brooklyn was way too cunning. He knew that Mirabelle named herself as the chief perfumer in Sliwell City, but he still allowed the media to release such kind of news. Diana believed that he wanted to expose her in public.

Without Brooklyn’s admission, no media agency dared to release such news aboveboard.

He knew that Mirabelle had targeted her, but he deliberately brought up the conflicts.

His purpose was to find the hidden secrets from Diana.

How skillful!

Diana realized that probably Brooklyn had planned to fire Ashley as soon as she showed up in his office.

No matter if Diana truly had stolen the bottle of perfume or not, Ashley would be fired by him on other excuses.

Meanwhile, he would use the compensation as an excuse and promote Diana as the manager of the perfume department of Powell Group.

Thinking of that, Diana had cold sweat on her back.

If Ashley hadn’t set her up, Brooklyn would still use other means to send her to the perfume department.

Diana realized that she was far less capable than Brooklyn in terms of using strategies and schemes.

“Mommy, what’s wrong?” Emily asked with concern, noticing that Diana looked a bit pale.

Diana calmed down.

She hadn’t done anything that could harm Powell Group.

She even hadn’t done anything to harm Brooklyn.

If there were something harmful, she just wanted to separate him from Mirabelle.

The only thing that she had hidden from him was her real identity and her children, who were the little lives after their one-night-stand six years ago.

“Nothing. I’m fine.” Diana smiled slightly and comforted her daughter gently.