The Lord Mayor Falls in Love with Me novel Chapter 24

Joey didn’t dare to return to her bed for the rest of the night. She curled herself up in the wet bathroom for two or three hours until it was about six o’clock in the morning when she put on her business suit and took the earliest bus to her office.

She had to leave home so early because she was afraid that she would see Ben Hawk at home or what was worse, she would run into Allen Charles who had said that he would pick her up for work downstairs.

She didn’t want to see Ben at all, while she was too ashamed to see Allen.

She had no choice but to run away from them both.

She sat in a café near her office and waited for more than an hour until she was certain that most of her colleagues had walked into their company when she stood up and went to her office. She was out of sorts.

She sat dully in the Chief Secretary's Office. Her mind went blank and couldn't concentrate on her work.

“Joey!”

Sarah walked into her office. She didn't look happy.

Sarah was wearing a curve-flattering white slip dress. Her light makeup and the casual but beautiful dress made her look like more elegant and lovely.

“Hello, Sarah!”

Joey looked up and forced a smile. But she instantly frowned, “Why didn’t you put on your business suit? Sarah, it’s a company policy.”

Walter Group was a famous major company in the country that had a more strict management system accordingly. Business suit at work was one of the basic rules of the company.

Sarah shook her head slightly and put on a self-mocking smile, “I'm quitting my job. It doesn’t matter what I’m wearing anymore. Here is my please accept it.”

She put the resignation letter on Joey’s desk.

Sarah was the President Secretary and Joey was the President Chief Secretary. Thus she needed Joey’s permission to resign her position.

Joey was shocked. She looked at Sarah in disbelief, “What’s going on? You have done an excellent job in the company. Why are you quitting your job?”

Didn’t Sarah like John Walter so much that she had broken up with Philip for him? Then why did she decide to quit her job? Was she leaving John Walter? Joey had no idea what Sarah had been thinking.

“Because…”

Sarah’s eyes turned red. She threw herself into Joey’s arms and cried loudly, “He is a bastard. He is such a bastard…”

Joey’s heart trembled. She recalled that when she and Allen left the Elsner Club last night, John Walter, Chance and Martin were talking about playing strip poker. Did they…

“Sarah, did John Walter really force you to undress as a gambling chip?”

Joey asked anxiously.

“…Yes!”

Sarah nodded in pain.

Joey was stunned. She was concerned for Sarah when she left the club. But Allen assured her that a proud man like John Walter would never force a girl to do things she didn’t want to do. But why, why did it end up like this?

“I’m sorry, Sarah, it was my fault. I shouldn’t have left you alone. I was so reckless…”

Joey felt so regretful that she slapped herself hard in the face.

“No, it had nothing to do with you.”

Sarah quickly grabbed Joey’s hand and explained in tears, “It was my fault. I asked for it. John didn’t force me to do anything. I decided to play the game because I wanted to know whether he cared for me or not. I thought he would have stopped me, but he…just sat by and watched me taking off my clothes in front of other men…I’m too embarrassed to go into details. Joey, please let me go. I don’t want to stay in the Walter Group anymore.”

What had happened last night seemed unbearable for Sarah. John Walter constantly lost the poker game, and she had to take off her clothes one piece after another. Eventually there were only her panties left as she had already taken off her bra.

However, John didn’t even frown when she was almost naked in front of the other two men.

At that moment, she hated John Walter as much as she hated herself.

After a night of consideration, she had given up on him.

A man as cold-hearted as John Walter was unworthy of her love.

“Sarah, you’re so silly. Poor girl…”

Joey hugged Sarah and burst into tears. Last night was a night of shame for Sarah. It was hers too.

Joey finally didn’t talk Sarah out of resigning. She approved Sarah’s resignation and quickly calculated her unpaid salary so that Sarah could go directly to the accounting department, get her paycheck and leave the company for good.

What they hadn't expected was that the accounting department needed the president’s signature to pay Sarah, because she was the president’s personal secretary. Without his permission, Sarah could neither leave the company nor get her paycheck.

Joey said to Sarah, “Why don’t you wait in my office for a while and I will ask the president to sign?”