To avoid dragging down the Sinclair Family, she hadn’t told them where she was going either.
This was to make Sylas Vaughn understand that the Sinclair Family couldn’t stop her determined effort to leave him.
“Hey, ladies, you two seem to know that Miss Hayes!” Two guys who had been watching everything from behind them remarked.
“Mind your business, you tagalongs.
It’s none of your concern whether we know that Han bitch.”
“You must not have heard.
Miss Hayes is Mr.
Vaughn’s official girlfriend now.
The news was all over the place last time—Miss Hayes forced out the original Mrs.
Vaughn to take the spot of girlfriend.”
When Claire Cameron heard this, she flew into a rage: “She may be Sylas Vaughn’s girlfriend, but do you have any idea who Selena Sinclair is?”
“Claire,” Selena Sinclair quickly cut her off.
“Forget it.
It’s useless talking to you guys.”
Claire Cameron shot the taller guy a look out of the corner of her eye, then grabbed Selena Sinclair’s wrist and turned to leave.
In the eyes of the people of Brookfall, the identity of Mrs.
Vaughn had always been an unsolved mystery.
Sylas Vaughn had a childhood sweetheart, but she later went abroad.
After Mr.
Vaughn got married, he followed her abroad as well.
Therefore, everyone naturally assumed that Sylas Vaughn had married his childhood sweetheart.
They figured he followed her abroad and then returned, but now, Hannah Hayes had appeared by his side.
The name Selena Sinclair was one that almost no one remembered.
Selena Sinclair didn’t notice that just as she was leaving with Claire Cameron, Hannah Hayes’s assistant, Evan Elliot, happened to catch a glimpse of her.
Evan Elliot had always been another one of Sylas Vaughn’s assistants.
Although not as capable as Julian Ford, he was still considered one of Sylas Vaughn’s right-hand men.
Watching Selena Sinclair’s retreating figure disappear through the doorway, he frowned and murmured, “Mrs.
Vaughn…”
This made Hannah Hayes notice that something was amiss.
Seeing that Evan Elliot’s gaze was fixed on the empty doorway behind them and that he clearly hadn’t been paying attention to her, Hannah Hayes grew annoyed.
She stopped in her tracks.
“Did you hear what I said?” she asked.
Evan Elliot seemed to snap out of a daze and responded, “Ah, yes, I heard you, Miss Hayes.”
“Well, if you heard me, then let’s get a move on.”
Evan Elliot glanced back over his shoulder again.
Hannah Hayes asked, “What are you looking at?”
“Nothing!” he answered evasively.
In truth, he was still trying to figure out why Selena Sinclair had been there.
Hannah Hayes assumed he was distracted by the many celebrities in the room.
After all, most men were interested in that sort of thing, and he was no exception.
「The next day」
Selena Sinclair arrived at the office as usual.
She sat at her workstation, her focus entirely on tapping away at her keyboard.
Some parts of the script were not up to par, so she was hurrying to revise them.
The two young men from yesterday were there; one sat in the row in front of her, the other at the very back.
Seeing Selena Sinclair, the taller of the two greeted her enthusiastically, “Hey, beautiful, we meet again.”
“Mm,” she responded politely, her fingertips still dancing lightly across the keyboard.
Then she picked up a notebook and buried her head in it, taking notes.
Her simple, makeup-free face was full of concentration, and the reflection from the screen made her fair skin seem even more radiant.
“Selena, I’ve got some huge news for you.
That Miss Hayes who came to our company yesterday?
She wants to become one of our investors.”
Selena Sinclair’s hands trembled slightly, pausing for a noticeable moment.
She looked at the young man over the edge of her screen and asked earnestly, “Hannah Hayes wants to be an investor?”
‘There are so many film and television companies in the country, why did she have to pick this one?!’
‘Is Sylas Vaughn planning to get involved in the entertainment industry?’
‘For Hannah Hayes?’
Remembering how Hannah Hayes had come alone, but with one of Sylas Vaughn’s assistants in tow, Selena’s heart suddenly clenched, as if something had seized it in a tight grip.
‘He really would go through fire and water for Hannah Hayes.
As long as it’s something she wants, he’ll grant her wish without a second thought.’