Love in Twilight novel (Clarissa and Damien)

Chapter 120 Fake Bag Howard rushed upstairs and told Damien all about the incident. While he narrated the entire thing, he also implied that he had been very protective of Clarissa and took her side. But Nicole remained relentless and unyielding, so they needed President Lawrence to preside over the chaos.

Damien recalled what he had seen earlier this morning. He had already warned Clarissa to be careful about the bar. Luke had given her.

Still, he felt that Clarissa wouldn't be able to watch out for the danger in such a short time.

"You're doubting my wife? How dare you!" Damien roared at Howard. He leaned back in his clair and shot Howard a severe glare. "I know, but... I can't calm the victim's anger without a fair investigation." Howard was bathed in cold sweat.

Damien's reaction, however, gave Howard the wrong impression. Howard was convinced that Clarissa was the one at fault. Damien had realized something was amiss, and so stopped Howard from doing any further investigation. Howard was confident in his assessment, especially after having seen Nicole's proof of purchase. "If we don't check, people will think Clarissa's stealing You're protecting her, so you won't allow any investigation. Her name won't be cleared. People will still look at her as a thief, and it'll only make things worse. I'm doing this for Clarissa's sake, sir! I too hope she can clear her name," Howard said Damien furrowed his brows slightly.

Clarissa hadn't talked much with him these days. Besides, he rarely texted her on WhatsApp. Now that Howard was here, he couldn't send her a text to ask anything.

The phone rang. It was Clarissa. "President Lawrence, Mr. Brooks probably wants you to come down and witness my investigation. Just come down." Clarissa sounded confident and not at all guilty. "Are you sure?" Damien asked with a frown. He would never believe that Clarissa would sink so low and commit a petty theft. On the other hand, she might not get away from Luke's trap.

"Yes. I'd like to confirm my innocence in front of you."

"We're going to the finance department," Damien said to Howard immediately after he ended the call.

Inwardly, Howard was pleased. He thought, 'Once President Lawrence proved Clarissa's crime, his impression of her will go down. It'd be much harder for her to transfer to the audit department after this incident!' Clarissa would probably have to remain working under Howard's thumb, and the fact brought him great joy.

This was Damien's second time entering the finance department's office. The last time, he came to ask for a shirt from Clarissa.

There, Nicole was staring at Clarissa with a bitter look.

Clarissa had been working in front of the computer and hadn't gone out at all. During this

time, she hadn't tampered with anything

"This is the laser tag on Nicole's bag President Lawrence, please take a look." Howard took Nicole's phone and showed Damien the laser tag "This is the number." "Clarissa, please..." Howard called weakly, pleading Clariss to give the bag. Ili response, Clarissa empiled her bag with a reluctant look and handed it tolloward, "Go ahead." Clarissa seemed very confident in dersell, but was sorely disappointed with the leam in the finance department. After handing the bag, she sat down and continued to work. Damien looked at her and her hand as she typed on the keyboard. She was very fast at work, especially with the way she read the numbers while working on the books. She seemed like a very qualified person in finance. lle could tell that Clarissa was angry, but she had decided to put a lid on her anger and keep silent.

"How is it, Mr. Brooks?" Nicole asked,

By now, Howard was sweating buckets. He dared not look up at Damien. "What's wrong?" Damien demanded Howard.

"The... Umm, the number of the las seems different..." Howard replied weakly.

"Huh?" Nicole fell to the chair, stumped. "How could that be?!"

"What do you mean by that? How could our bags be the same? Why would I have your bag?" Clarissa hissed at Nicole

Nicole's face was red with embarrassment.

"But... But she clearly..." Anxiety and confusion were written on Nicole's pale face. Luke was the one who gave her bag to Clarissa. Did Luko scamber and take the genuine bag away?

Nicole lost it and grabbed the bag out of towarci's land, all compostire gone. She kept searching for Clarissa's bap like it was the last straw.

She knew she wouldn't be able to continue her career at New East Corporation after this terrible fiasco. After all, President Lawrence had stopped in.

She was thoroughly humilialcd, but she didn't know if it was Clarissa or Luke who fooled her. They played her like a fiddle!

As the turbulent emotions surged in Nicole, she suddenly burst into mad laughter, Her hysterical laughter made Clarissa uncomfortable. "What are you laughing at?" she asked, feeling creeped out. "I'm just laughing at you. Why are you using a lake? You're the president's wile, but you're carrying a lake replica! Look at the laser mark inside. How lake is this?! It's really a fake!"

Nicole continued to laugh as she threw Clarissa's bar to the ground.