My Bully Mocked Me in Front of the CEO So I Destroyed Her in Seven Languages Chapter 19

My Bully Mocked Me in Front of the CEO So I Destroyed Her in Seven Languages Chapter 19

The place was quiet, just the sound of the chef’s knife in the back.

“Caleb, you’re the CEO of East Ridge. I’m just a department head at GTS.”

“And?”

“Our worlds aren’t the same.”

“Right now, you’re the only world I care about.”

“You really are too…”

“Too what?”

“Too blunt.”

“Don’t like it?”

“…I didn’t say that.”

He laughed.

It was the first time I’d seen him actually mean it.

He dropped me off that night.

At my door, he said, “I’m flying to Seoul tomorrow for a week.”

“For how long?”

“A week.”

“Okay.”

“You gonna miss me?”

“Nope.”

“Liar.”

“… Maybe a little.”

I didn’t need to add my two cents.

Julian had been keeping a low profile. His relationship with Joseph was ice-cold, those hotel receipts were still a ticking time bomb.

But none of that mattered.

What mattered was that after the doc aired, something crazy happened.

An old colleague of my dad’s-Mr. Brooks, a retired diplomat-saw the documentary.

He tracked me down.

“Hazel? Are you Hazel, Jacob’s daughter?”

“Mr. Brooks?”

“I saw you on TV! Consultant! Five languages! Hazel, your parents would be so proud!”

I gripped the phone, my eyes stinging.

“How did you recognize me?”

“You look exactly like your mother did. And your Arabic-that Cairo accent of your father’s? I’d know it anywhere.”

He was laughing, then his voice started to break.

“Hazel, your dad told me something before he passed.”

“What was it?”

“He said: ‘Hazel will be a better bridge than I ever was.

A better bridge.