Room for You
Chapter 166

Chapter 166

Anastasia went back to the working area and for a moment, herthoughts were all over the place. Truth was, she found Elliot's behaviorquite baffling. He's behaving quite abnormally today. Don't tell me thathe likes me?! Well, I didn't expect him to personally pick the flowers hegave me! I mean, even though Nigel sent me flowers too, surely hewould have just called the florist to place an order? Nigel wouldn't takethe time to go and pick out the flowers personally just like Elliot. I guessit's understandable that Elliot's mad because I didn't appreciate theflowers he sent me. But honestly, I never expected that he would havepicked out every single stalk personally. Gosh!

At that point, Anastasia held her head in her hands and she wassignificantly frustrated

In the afternoon, Felicia came over to report the good news. The humanresource department had contacted Belle Patisserie and the contracthad been drafted. Once everything was signed, then Belle Patisseriewould finally be able to move in. As such, they would be able to enjoytasty pastries and cakes, as well as freshly brewed aromatic coffee fortheir tea break in the future.

All of this was thanks to Anastasia and the entire office was quite awareof that.

Suddenly, Anastasia’s image in the company went through a completereversal and those colleagues who had secretly looked down on her inthe past were now full of gratitude for her in public. After all, this wasan awesome benefit.

The only person quite unhappy about it was Alice. She had hopedfervently for the entire office to dislike Anastasia but unexpectedly,Anastasia had managed to win the people's hearts with just a singlemove.

Meanwhile, May was currently quite impatient and she quickly found ahiding spot outside the company as she dialed Hayley’s number toinform Hayley about this incident.

Hayley had just put on an act in front of Anastasia but unexpectedly,the latter had fought back so soon after that. Hayley had assumed thatAnastasia was just putting up an act, and that Anastasia had done thatto show Hayley how important she was to Elliot.

At that moment, Hayley bit her lip and she felt as if she was about tolose her mind. She felt as if she was currently living in a darkened state,devoid of light. Her heart was completely closed off and she couldn'tsee the light in her life at all. She was now fully consumed by hatred,jealousy, and all sorts of other negative feelings.

Hayley's encounter with Elliot wasn't a good thing for her, as she foundthat he was a calamity in her life. After all, he was a spectacularindividual while she wasn't exactly that great. As such, she had lost notonly her true self but also her happiness. She hated Anastasia with apassion and now, the hatred consuined her. To Hayley, it was Anastasiathat had ruined Hayley’s life.

In the afternoon, Anastasia handed over the initial draft for Felicia'sperusal. Meanwhile, Felicia was quite pleased with it and askedAnastasia to refine some details before showing it to the female clienttomorrow. If everything was acceptable, then they could proceed togenerate the end-product drawing. Subsequently, production could beinitiated by handing over the end-product drawing to the factory.

At about 4 PM, Anastasia was busy working on her computer as she putthe finishing touches on her refined draft. Suddenly, she received a callon her landline, so she reached out to answer the phone. “Hello?”“Come to the underground parking lot in two minutes.” A man's low,clear voice rang out.

Suddenly, Anastasia grabbed her cell phone to check the time and shegasped. She had been too busy with work to the extent that she hadnearly forgotten that she had to go and fetch Jared

"Okay, I'll be there right away,” Anastasia instantly responded.Subsequently, she collected her belongings and switched off thecomputer before dashing out of the door.

In the underground parking lot, Anastasia saw the car that was alreadywith its ignition on, so she pulled open the door to the front passengerseat and entered the car. As she buckled her seatbelt, she murmuredanxiously, “Hurry up and get going. We're going to be late!”Meanwhile, Elliot was slightly speechless. After all, if it wasn't for hisreminder, she would have completely forgotten that she had to pickJared up.

Despite that, the man stepped on the accelerator to increase the speedand drove off in a rush.

As for Anastasia, she glanced outside of the window and breathed outslowly as she watched the traffic outside. She was in good spirits at themoment. After all, her work was going quite well and her family wassafe and sound too. She found herself currently in an exceptionallyrelaxed state that she hadn't experienced before.

Suddenly, her cell phone rang and she took it in her hand to glance atit. Anastasia was caught by surprise for a moment as she turned toglance at the man next to her. “It's your grandma on the line.”.

Elliot shot her a look and responded with a low voice, “Put her onspeakerphone.”

And so, Anastasia took a deep breath before hitting the speaker buttonand she answered the phone with a sweet and polite voice, “Goodevening, Old Madam Presgrave.”

At that moment, Harriet responded in a warm, gentle voice, “Anastasia!How have you been? Are you quite busy lately?”

“Uh... No, I'm not too busy. Is there anything that you'd like me to do?”Anastasia asked with a smile.

“Well, I wanted to treat you to lunch tomorrow. I didn't get to talk muchto you during the dinner party the other time because it was just toohectic then. Will you be free tomorrow afternoon?”