Chapter 31

“Huh! Esmeralda? Isn’t this Esmeralda?”

Johnathan flashed in front of me with a few big steps, blocking my way.

I furrowed my brows and looked up to see Reynaldo standing behind him.

I don’t know if it was my bad luck or what. Every time I really didn’t want to see Reynaldo, I always ran into him. When I urgently needed to borrow money from him, it was rare for me to come across him.

Johnathan looked at me with a smile and said, “Esmeralda, were you okay that night of the dance event? You suddenly ran away halfway, and I was worried about you for a while.”

I chuckled inwardly. This Johnathan is such a cunning fox. During the dance party, he completely tricked me, and he had the audacity to say so!

Just as I was criticizing Johnathan in my heart, Reynaldo suddenly said with a half-smile, “Esmeralda? Huh, calling her so affectionately. I didn’t know that your relationship had become so intimate.”

Reynaldo chuckled lightly, but his laughter sent shivers down my spine. He already suspected that I had something with this Johnathan, and now he will misunderstand even more. I knew from the gloomy look in his eyes as he stared at me that he must be thinking of how to torment me again.

Thinking that I was still his lover, I explained, “Don’t misunderstand, I wasn’t familiar with him.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Johnathan put his arm around my shoulder and said with a smile, “You’re being too formal with your words. We are people with a shared secret, you know…”

“Shut up!” I interrupted him hastily. Johnathan was really not afraid of anything; he just kept talking nonsense!

“Shared secret?” Reynaldo slowly narrowed his eyes, and the look in his eyes was already filled with frost.

I shivered and quickly said, “No, don’t listen to him!” After saying that, I forcefully shook off Johnathan’s hand and said, “I have something else to do, so I’ll leave first.”

“Hey, why are you in such a hurry?” I had just taken a step when Johnathan pulled me back. I was speechless; how could Johnathan be as annoying as Kimberly?

“Oh, Esmeralda…” Johnathan suddenly noticed the resume in my hand and exclaimed, “Are you here to look for a job?”

“I… I… I didn’t…” I stammered, clutching my resume, laughing incredulously as I denied it. That day, I personally told Reynaldo that I had found a very good job. Wouldn’t it be admitting that I slapped myself in the face? Afraid of being exposed, I struggled to break free from Johnathan and tried to leave.

The interviewer who didn’t pay attention to me just now came running over attentively. “Mr. Dunlap, why did you come to the market in person?”

“Oh, when I had nothing to do, I would just come over and hang out with Mr. Humphrey.”

“Mr. Humphrey came as well, huh?” The interviewer glanced at Reynaldo, then glanced at me. The look in those eyes gave me a sudden surge of a bad premonition in my heart.

Sure enough, the next second, the interviewer said, “Ms. Duffy just interviewed with us.”

I was completely speechless! Did everyone know about my marriage with Reynaldo? Did everyone know that I was not good to Reynaldo? So now, in order to please Reynaldo, they all try their best to step on me! I was feeling quite depressed!

“Oh?” Reynaldo smiled at me. “Did she come for an interview with you?”

The interviewer nodded quickly and said, “Yes, the interview is for a sales position.”

“Oh…” Reynaldo dragged out the ending, “So, did she pass the interview?”

The interviewer shook his head and said earnestly, “We work in market sales, which is very tough. She has delicate skin and tender flesh; it’s obvious that she can’t endure hardships.”

I angrily tightened my resume. I am not sure if I can endure hardships, but if I really get a job interview, I will definitely work hard and take it seriously. But they all waited to see me being laughed at, and I couldn’t argue back. Once you start arguing with them and attract more people, it will only make yourself more embarrassed.

“Alright, it’s none of your business anymore; go and do your own thing,” Johnathan said to the interviewer.

The interviewer nodded attentively and said, “Alright, I’ll go and attend to my duties. If Mr. Dunlap and Mr. Humphrey need anything, feel free to call us.”

After the interviewer left, Reynaldo looked at me meaningfully. “Is this what you said, a very good job?” He bit the words “very good” very hard.

I lowered my gaze and muttered, “Yes, in my opinion, this is a good job!”

“Oh…”