Mr Carroll Went Crazy After Divorce

Aurora put down her phone, rest her arms on the table and buried her face in her hands. She was down again and even herself didn’t notice it.

At 10 a. m, Aurora arrived at the office with Albie, and went to the Design Department with her old designs. She stood by the bar counter and thought it was a pity that all these designs were down to drain. She had spent lots of time and energy on them, but she had to start over.

“Aurora.” Alex made her a cup of coffee and passed it to her, “Coffee. Refresh yourself.”

Aurora put away the designs, accepted the coffee and said with a smile, “Thanks, Alex.”

He nodded at the designs and asked, “How was it going? Good?”

“Long story!” Aurora sighed quietly, “But, it’s OK. I’ve got some new ideas.”

“Good. Go for it!”

Ava came up to them while they were talking. She walked on the carpet and her high heels made some little noise. She was passing by but suddenly turned around and crash into Aurora on the shoulder. Thus, the coffee spilled on the designs on the counter.

“Oh my god!” Ava frowned and put on a complacent smile on her face, “Sorry. New shoes. They are rubbing against my heels. It’s killing me.”Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

“Hell! Couldn’t you just be more careful?” Alex cleaned the designs with Aurora and stared at Ava sullenly, “What if you ruin the designs? Can you afford to answer for it?”

“Oh, I’m so sorry…”

“I didn’t mean to. Aurora, you won’t blame me, will you?” Ava apologized hypocritically.

Alex was trying to say something but Aurora stopped him, “It’s OK, Alex. She said she didn’t mean to.”

But Alex didn’t wanna let go at that, “What about your designs?”

Aurora looked at Ava and said word by word, “Never mind! They are all scrap drawings. It doesn’t matter even if she ruins them all.”

Hearing that, Ava was frozen for a second, then patted her chest to calm herself, “Oh really? I’m so relieved to hear that. Otherwise, I should be guilty!”

“Yep. You should be!” Aurora nodded.

She wouldn’t have to do it again if she hadn’t been set up and misled by Ava. Thinking of it, she took a look at the coffee cup in hand, and spilled the rest of the coffee on Ava.

“Oh, I’m so sorry, Ava. I didn’t mean to. You won’t mind, will you?”

Ava looked at the dripping coffee and shook with anger, “Obviously, you did it on purpose!”

Aurora had the guts to spill coffee on her! How dare she! Didn’t she just grin and bear it before?

Aurora ignored her angry face and went to the point, “Ava, you also did it on purpose, didn’t you? You misled me to the wrong target customers of the new product, and my designs were totally against what they wanted. But you didn’t feel guilty, did you?”

Ava was choked by Aurora’s words and pulled a long face. Surprisingly, Aurora had figured it out within such a short time, and even had exposed her in public. Huh, funny! Aurora turned out to be a tough girl! But so what? She couldn’t beat her!

Ava snorted and wasn’t embarrassed at all, “Yep, I’ve misled you deliberately. Bite me! You’re the only one to blame since you are so stupid as not to confirm the most fundamental things.”

“All in all, we’re rivals now! Bring it on! What matters isn’t the process, but the result!” said Ava.

“You look confident.” Aurora gnashed and stared at her coldly, “You’d better keep yourself in line and stop playing tricks. Otherwise, it won’t be coffee on you next time.” Saying it, Aurora turned around to leave, which had given her the quality of awe and power.

Alex heard Aurora’s designs had been criticized by Carroll Group, but clearly, he hadn’t imagined Ava had played dirty tricks in it. He frowned, glared at Ava sharply and ran after Aurora.

Aurora didn’t stop until she went to the roof. She looked down and had many feelings. Actually, she didn’t want to be enemy with anyone. She was fine with it if Ava had spoken her mind in the first place and had a fair competition with her. However, she played those dirty tricks behind her back and it was totally unbearable!

Alex went to her slowly and said after giving a second thought, “Aurora, maybe you can report it to the company. Whatever Ava has done is against profession ethics. The company won’t just sit back and do nothing!”

Aurora shook her head, “It won’t work. We don’t have any evidences, and… it’s true that I’m also to blame. I didn’t confirm her words first and that was why she got the chance to set me up.” At bottom, she was so naive that she even believe she could also make real friends in the work place. But it proved she was very wrong about that.

“What are you gonna do?”

“Do it again.” Aurora shrugged and looked very confident, “No worries, Alex. I’m sure I can defeat her in a fair competition.”

Undoubtedly, Ava was more experienced but it took many more things than experience to be a top designer. And, Aurora had defeated her in the morality and faith. At least, each of her designs was from her own idea.

Aurora didn’t know how attractive she was when she was confident and determined. Alex was deeply attracted and went close to her unconsciously.

“Alex…”

Aurora stepped backward and said clearly, “Don’t come so close to me since you’ve known I’m married. It isn’t right.”

Alex was frozen. He realized what he’d done, but didn’t regret it. “You… but your marriage is only a matter of form, isn’t it?” he pursed his lips and spoke out his mind, “I’ll wait for you no matter when you’re gonna get a divorce. I really like you, Aurora.”

Aurora shook her head and said, “There’s nothing to do with the marriage or divorce.”

“All in all, thanks for everything, Alex. But I think we’d better keep the distance, so that we still can be good friends and colleagues.”

After that, she nodded apologetically and turned around to go downstairs. She had rejected Alex once before, but he wasn’t affected. So, she had no choice but to keep him at arm’s length. Alex watched Aurora leave, clenched his fists and looked kinda gloomy.