He Scorned Me, Now I’m a CEO He Can’t Afford Chapter 12

He Scorned Me, Now I’m a CEO He Can’t Afford Chapter 12

*Family reasons.*

The last trace of color drained from Clara’s face.

The official looked at her and added coldly, “In short, there is absolutely no issue with Miss Vance’s eligibility for this award. I do not want to hear any more statements that could damage the competition’s reputation.”

With that, he turned and left.

The office exploded.

“So Lena wasn’t useless? She was just hiding what she knew?”

“We made fun of her… we were the idiots all along.”

“The Texas Young Agriculturalist of the year was right under our noses, and we treated her like a joke.”

The men who had once mocked Lena alongside Clara now looked sick.

Clara could barely stand. She forced a brittle smile and reached for Wyatt’s arm.

“Who would have thought Lena was hiding all that? Crazy, right, Wyatt?”

She looked up, desperate for some comfort.

But Wyatt wasn’t listening.

His expression was vacant.

His eyes were hollow.

He suddenly remembered a party from a few months back.

Lena had been mocked for saying the wrong thing about fashion, and he had walked over and coldly told her to stop bothering Clara and to keep her shallow interests to herself.

At the time, Lena had frozen, then leaned close to his ear.

“I’ll only tell you, Wyatt,” she’d whispered with a sly smile.

“I actually know more about these cows and this grass than anyone.”