Oliver's Substitute Bride (Oliver and Jessica) novel Chapter 72

Jessica was suspicious and went straight to the office.

It was Alice who was sitting in Oliver's office.

Probably to gain Oliver's sympathy, she came over in a wheelchair. When she was lying in the hospital, she called Oliver to weep out her grief in vain. So no one could stop her from coming to the Williams Group to look for Oliver.

Alice's forehead was still wrapped in gauze and it was clear she was seriously injured.

"Oliver, I heard you took Jessica away from the police station?" Alice looked at Oliver with tears in her eyes.

Oliver said in a flat tone, "Yes."

"How can you let her go after she had done that to me? Oliver, it's all her fault for my injury. How could you be so careless about me for a secretary? You didn't treat me like this before."

Alice pretended to cry. Oliver sitting opposite her remained unmoved, expressionless.

"I'll ask the driver to take you back to the hospital."

"I'm not going back. My friends will laugh at me when they see me like this. It's all because of that b*tch," Alice said in a vicious tone at the mention of Jessica.

Then, she felt she lost her composure and wept again, "Oliver, what kind of secretary do you want? I'll recommend one to you. Please fire that secretary."

Alice didn't know his secretaries' name. She didn't even bother to ask. She only knew her surname and she was a secretary who had just joined the Williams Group.

Oliver, who was sitting on the sofa at this time, got up and went back to the desk. He busied himself with work, ignoring Alice.

Seeing this, Alice pushed the wheelchair inexperiencedly to him, "Oliver, as long as you promise to drive that woman away, the Zamani Family will not mistreat you. Don't you want the land in the west of the city? I can persuade my brother to sell it to you."

Oliver raised his eyes slightly and glanced at Alice. He did not expect that unremarkable woman to have such value. He did not know what she had done to make Alice lose her mind and say those ridiculous words.

He said emotionlessly, "The personnel arrangement in our Williams Group will not change because of an outsider's words."

Alice didn't expect Oliver to reject such a condition. "Oliver, do you think I'm an outsider? I don't think that way of you. You're not an outsider to me. When you were in a car accident, grandpa and the others were the ones who wanted to cancel the marriage. That's not what I meant. I didn't expect you to get married so soon after you returned home. When you got married, I was devastated. I couldn't hear any voices talking about you at home. Even my friends knew that, so no one dared to mention you in front of me. Do you know my feelings? You know..."

"Enough." Oliver stopped her, "I've always treated you as my sister. Even if the marriage is not canceled, I wouldn't marry you. That would do harm to you."

Alice was secretly glad to hear Oliver's words. He refused to marry her for her happiness. It seemed that Oliver still cared about her.

"What about your secretary?"

"I'll deal with her," Oliver said with a wicked smile.

Alice decided to punish Jessica. She was moved by Oliver who cared more about their childhood friendship than the land of the Zamani Family.

Oliver used to tolerate some of Alice's rude requests probably because he didn't want to ruin the memories of their childhood. There weren't many happy days in his memory. The death of his mother, his disability, and the psychological and physical trauma had affected him till now. He barely had happy times until that woman walked into his life. At a certain moment, he actually felt happy.

Alice wanted to use the land in the west of the city as a condition for Oliver to fire Jessica. But she didn't know that her plan would never succeed.

No matter how important the land was, it was not as important as Oliver's happiness for a moment. He had plenty of money in exchange for a priceless price. Money was just a number to him. It would not bring any earth-shaking changes to his life, but Jessica was different. She could surprise him from time to time.

Oliver leaned back in his chair, deep in his thoughts.

Alice stood aside and looked at Oliver, thinking that he was thinking about what to do. As long as he fired Jessica, she would not spare her. She would let the woman experience all her sufferings.

"Oliver, I'm waiting for your good news." Alice interrupted Oliver's thoughts.

"You can go back."

Alice came out in the wheelchair. When she saw the light on in the secretary's office next to her, she looked over curiously and saw Jessica sitting in front of the computer working. She didn't seem to notice her outside.

Alice felt that this woman was scheming. She came to work on weekends to seduce Oliver. Seeing that Oliver was so protective of her, she was more sure that there was something between them.

By the time Jessica notice her, Alice was almost at her desk.

"You b*tch, do you think you can seduce a man just because you're pretty? Don't think that since Oliver saved you, you'll be fine."

Jessica put down the document in her hand and sneered. "It seems that there's something wrong with your brain. How can you say such incoherent words?"

"If it weren't for you, how could I have fallen?"

"Alice, stop being ridiculous. You fell on your own. What does it have to do with me?"

"You should be to blame."

"You are like a lunatic."

"You b*tch, you're offending me by staying by Oliver's side to seduce him."

"I remember that my president is married. Well, how can you covet a married man? Aren't you the same b*tch?"

"You know what, he will fire you soon."

"The point is that he won't fire me."

"Who do you think you are? Do you think a smart man like Oliver would fall in love with you?"