Chapter 415 The Consequences of Provoking Her
Tessa was only telling the truth in a calm manner, but Hayley felt that she was showing off in front of her. Gnashing her teeth in anger, she added resentfully, “You probably don’t know this yet, but Nicholas has fallen out with Old Master Sawyer. Old Master Sawyer got so angry because of this that he was hospitalized several times.”
Tessa pursed her lips in silence. Indeed, she didn’t know these things since Nicholas had never told her about them.
Hayley’s eyes flickered briefly when she saw that Tessa was silent. She continued, “You should’ve known that with Nicholas’ social status, his future wife has to be someone extraordinary. You’re not good enough for him at all in terms of social status and family background. If you insist on being with him, you’ll only be a drag and an obstacle to him in the future!”
Tessa’s face fell little by little as she listened to Hayley’s words.
Seeing Tessa’s expression, Hayley was inwardly delighted. She continued with a sneer, “If you don’t agree with what I said just now, let me put it in another way. If the Sawyer Group runs into a crisis, what can you do for Nicholas? I’m telling you, you can do nothing other than watch helplessly.”
Tessa fell silent with a look of embarrassment, for she knew that what Hayley said was true. Indeed, she couldn’t be of help to Nicholas at the moment, but inwardly, she didn’t want to be deflated by Hayley. Taking a deep breath, she straightened her back, met Hayley’s gaze, and replied in an indescribably uncompromising tone, “It’s undeniable that the current me is of no help to Nicholas, but I believe in his capabilities. He’ll never let the Sawyer Group fall into crisis, so your hypothesis doesn’t stand up at all.”
Hayley was rendered speechless; she never thought Tessa would refute her in such a firm attitude. She retorted defiantly, “Everything in the world is unpredictable. And besides, the business world is like the battlefield, where everything is subject to change. Can you guarantee that Nicholas will always make the best decisions?”
“I just told you the answer. I believe in Nicholas, so you’d better stop talking about such a meaningless topic,” Tessa said, rendering Hayley speechless once again. Seeing how Hayley almost exploded with rage, she lowered her eyes and added impassively, “As for your accusation that I’m an obstacle to Nicholas, I don’t agree with that, Miss Stone. I’ll never be a drag on him by being with him. On the contrary, I’ll be the motivation for him to keep moving forward.”
Hayley was pissed off by Tessa’s words. Is this b*tch showing off in front of me?
Just then, Tessa’s voice rang in her ear again. “Miss Stone, I know you can’t resign yourself to the fact that Nicholas is in love with me, but if you really had the ability to make him stay with you, you wouldn’t have gone out of your way here to say these things in front of me. So, by coming to me, you’ve lost to me completely.”
“Shut up!” Hayley barked in a harsh voice. Exasperated, she picked up the cup of coffee on the table and splashed it onto Tessa right away. I’m Stone Enterprise’s heiress! How can I possibly lose to Tessa, who is inferior to me in every regard?!
All of this happened so quickly that Tessa had coffee splashed all over her before she could respond. As she looked at the stains on her clothes, her face darkened all at once. She warned angrily, “Don’t go too far, Miss Stone.”
“I’m going too far? I’m telling you, if you don’t leave Nicholas, I can go even further than this!” Seeing that Tessa had stubbornly refused to leave Nicholas, Hayley revealed her true colors. With a sinister look in her eyes, she said, “Nicholas Sawyer is the man I fancy, and I’ll never allow him to marry any woman other than me. Here’s my advice: leave Nicholas and disappear from our sights, or you’ll bear the consequences of provoking me.”
Unsurprisingly, Tessa’s face became as black as thunder when she heard this. At this moment, she suddenly recalled how Remus had previously intimidated her into going abroad in the same way. As a feeling of humiliation spread through her, she gritted her teeth and answered back, “Miss Stone, I admit that you do have a prominent family background, or I wouldn’t have been targeted by you guys and forced into going abroad back then. But wouldn’t it be too naive of you to think of resorting to old tactics now? This is a foreign country. Can you do whatever you want here?”
