Hiding Behind Her Superficiality

Chapter 49

Chapter 49 The Crisis of His Ex

“Not bad.”

“See! You watched my interview! Just admit it!” Elspeth flicked her hair, her smile mysterious and ambiguous.

“If you don’t have anything else to say, go back to work,” Callum ordered her to leave for fear that she would use this chance to tease him again.

“Aw, don’t be so indifferent. Are you a man? How can you be so calm when a gorgeous woman is flirting with you?”

She clicked her tongue and was about to leave when Edmund walked in on her and said, “This year, there are a total of one hundred people to participate in the interview. Eighty failed the written test, and the remaining twenty were waiting in the interview room. When can you go over?”

Houston was supposed to be in charge of the recruitment, but after he was fired, they didn’t have a qualified staff to serve as the head of the HR Department, so Edmund was temporarily put in charge of recruitment.

Elspeth blinked as she quickly recalled that it was indeed the annual recruitment day.

“I’ll go over later.”

Edmund spotted Elspeth too and teased, “Well, you guys seem to spend a lot of time together now. I think you don’t have to get along with us anymore. Just marry Callum.”

Although he was prompting her and Callum to be together, she could hear an intense mockery in his tone.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

A cold light flashed across Callum’s eyes. “You talk too much.”

Edmund shrugged casually and turned to say to her, “You see what he’s like, right? This is a friendly reminder from me to you. Don’t regret it when you choose to be with him and are bullied.”

“It’s none of your business,” Elspeth answered with a smile that didn’t reach her eyes.

“How can you say that to me? I’m telling you this out of the goodness of my heart. I’m sad, Elsie.” Edmund pouted pretentiously. When he turned and spotted Callum’s cold glare, he sheepishly dropped his act and exited his office.

“I’m interviewing potential candidates. Do you want to join me?” Callum suddenly invited Elspeth along, which made her a little flattered.

“Me? Are you sure? But I thought you didn’t want to see me that much?” Most of the time, whenever she teased him a little, he would order her to leave. He had always been so serious and boring.

Callum stood up, grabbed his coat, and walked toward the door. “I think you’re pretty good at reading people. So, come if you want, but forget it if you don’t want to.”

“I’ll come!” Elspeth beamed happily at that.

The interview venue was located on the second floor. Twenty candidates were waiting outside, all of them fresh graduates.

“Now, you’ll enter one by one according to the order.”

After they interviewed several people in a row, he wasn’t satisfied with any of them, and the frown on his face never left.

“Hey, don’t you think you’re too harsh? I think there are a few who are quite good.” Elspeth cupped her chin and asked while they were taking a break.

“I don’t think so. Those who were interviewed just now either didn’t have any working experience, were stuttering, or were too arrogant. It won’t do the company any good if we hire these people. So, I won’t hire them if they don’t fit the requirements. I don’t need to hire these unqualified people to fill up the numbers.”

Elspeth understood his implication, but Harper had single-handedly managed her business affairs. There was nothing much she needed to worry about except for the big decisions that he couldn’t deal with himself. At the thought of this, she felt a little ashamed of her capability to read people or lack thereof.

The next candidate was a girl with shoulder-length hair. Her temperament was outstanding, and her facial features were tender and sweet. She had two shallow dimples beside her lips when she smiled. In fact, she was the most beautiful candidate today.

Elspeth could clearly feel that Callum’s body suddenly became stiff.

“What’s wrong? Are you shocked by her beauty?” she mocked in a low voice, but Callum suddenly regained his composure and flipped the candidate’s resumé and information. Then, after a long while, he looked up and asked, “When did you return?”

Elspeth blinked in surprise. He knew her.

“Mr. Winthrop, I don’t think this question has anything to do with today’s interview.” The woman ruffled her hair and looked aloof. “I think you should ask me some questions related to the interview.”

Callum slammed the file shut and scowled indignantly. “I know you did not come here to interview for a job. So tell me, why did you come back?”

The girl covered her mouth and giggled, “I came back to keep an eye on you on behalf of my sister. After all, you’re my… brother-in-law.”

Brother-in-law? Elspeth was a little confused. She looked at the girl in front of her and felt an inexplicable sense of crisis and intimidation.

Callum began to breathe heavily. “I’m not your brother-in-law! Don’t call me that.”

“Okay.” The girl raised her eyebrow. “Judging from your reaction, I think you’ve forgotten my sister, so I don’t want to waste any more time here.”

Callum didn’t say anything in response, but he was no longer as calm as before.

“I’m leaving now. I’ll tell my sister to forget you.”

The girl stood up and wanted to leave when Callum called out to her. “Ginna, I no longer have a relationship with your sister, and we’ll forever be strangers in the future.”

Ginna chuckled. “Strangers? Hah, my pitiful sister. She is blindly in love with a heartless man.” With that, she turned and left decisively.

Even if Elspeth didn’t know the whole story between the two of them, she could more or less figure out the drama.

Ginna was probably the sister of the woman Callum loved. He might have broken up with the woman for some reason, but they still loved each other.

Elspeth’s heart skipped a beat when she saw Callum, who was usually calm and composed, suddenly lost his temper. Although he called the woman a stranger, she could tell that he still cared about her.

“Callum…” Elspeth called out his name.

Callum turned around, and there was a hint of subtle sorrow in his eyes.

“Are you alright?”

When he raised his eyes, his gaze was cold. “Let’s postpone the interview and call it a day.”

Elspeth looked at him in a daze and nodded.

The interview was cut short because of Ginna. A well of complicated emotions surged within her, and she couldn’t explain how she felt right now.

It happened to be the end of the working hour too, so she decided to go home instead of staying in the office for overtime.

She was home early, and Arthur was alone at home. “Why are you here? Aren’t you supposed to be in the hospital?”

Arthur chuckled. “I exchanged my shift with my colleague, so it’s my break today.”

Elspeth nodded and was about to head to her room when her legs unconsciously paused. She turned and looked at Arthur a little awkwardly. “I want to ask you something.”

“What is it?” Arthur sipped his coffee and asked gently.

“Uh… Did Callum have an ex-girlfriend?”