Abusive Wife

Chapter 262

When Madeline arrived at Elise’s store, the store was a mess, with damaged high-end dresses all over the floor. And Elise sat in a pile of clothes, buried her face in her knees, and wept.

Madeline squatted down next to her and patted her on the back.

“Maddie, my heart aches!” Elise cried louder as she hugged Madeline.

Madeline only designed a minority of the dresses that won awards. And the rest was designed by Elise from scratch over countless days and nights.

The happiest thing for Elise was to see beautiful girls wearing her dresses; seeing how stunning they were in her dresses made her overjoyed.

So, it was not an exaggeration to say that these dresses are her babies.

But now all of my babies are gone. Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

“Don’t cry; I’ll find out who did this, and I’ll teach them a lesson!” Dylan was always joking and fighting playfully with Elise every time they met. He could not stand Elise’s crying.

A girl like her should be happy all the time. She should be laughing carelessly like a fool.

“Dylan, you said this yourself. You must work hard for me! If you can’t find out the culprit within three days, you won’t be allowed to come to my house for meals.” Elise immediately accepted his help.

She would try her best to avoid troubling Maddie.

Maddie was meant to do greater things.

“Okay, I’m on it!” Dylan promised her and reassured her that he would be investigating now. He turned around and walked toward the entrance. Before going out, he commented, “Elise, you looked damn ugly when you cried.”

“Right, you’re the most good-looking person. You should be an escort!” She grabbed the pillow next to her and threw it at him.

Dylan ran as he said, “I would monopolise the market if I were an escort; I shall give others the opportunity to earn money.”

“Okay, let’s clean up the store first.” Madeline realised Dylan cheered Elise up easily. She stopped crying the moment Dylan interrupted her. Madeline smiled at her slyly.

Elise blushed at being stared at, and she muttered, “A dress costs hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars; how are you still smiling? If I didn’t put the members’ customised dresses in the VIP room, a huge amount of money would be washed down the drain!”

“Elise, you’re always thoughtful. I’m curious which man will be lucky to have you.” Madeline joked while picking up the dresses.

With Dylan gone, Elise asked daringly, “I heard from Dylan that you were doing some indescribable things with Noah when he knocked on your door. Did he frighten Noah?”

Elise raised her eyebrows and smirked. Madeline understood what Elise meant by Noah being frightened.

She pinched Elise’s cheeks and said, “Dylan has such a loose lip, he literally tells anyone everything.”

“He isn’t like that; it’s just that he’s being open and honest with me.” Elise defended him subconsciously.

“O-Oh… He only tells you everything. Are the two of you…”

Madeline wanted to make fun of her.

“We have nothing! All he thinks about is his research and patients; he doesn’t see me that way.” Elise sighed with disappointment.

“Well, he only visits you frequently. He’s never done that to others. He must have feelings for you.”

As a bystander, Madeline could see better than Elise. Dylan and Elise actually have mutual feelings, but they do not realise it. And Elise even thought that he wasn’t interested in her.

“I think he will like Noah romantically if he really wants to be in a relationship. All he talks about is Noah. But I found it cute and sweet.”

Madeline was speechless for several minutes, then she said, “You can think however you want, as long as you’re happy.”

I can’t understand young people’s mindset nowadays.

“Speaking of which, didn’t I tell Dylan that I worried Suzette might cause trouble for you? I think she’s the culprit behind this incident.” Elise suddenly spoke in a serious tone.

“Our boutique is high-end. We’re well-established in Imperia; we even defeated all the competitors with dirty tricks.”

Before Madeline could finish her sentence, Elise interrupted her and said, “So our competitors shouldn’t be the ones behind this, we were targeted by our enemies. One must resent us very much to take revenge, despite knowing many rich people would be offended.”

“You’re always good with people, and you’ve never offended anyone in your social circle. You only had bad blood with Suzette when you blackmailed her for me. That’s why you suspect it’s her.”

Elise nodded.

Madeline continued to analyze, “However, the blackmail amount wouldn’t be enough to make Suzette take revenge. But there’s a high probability this incident happened because of me.”

Madeline deduced that Suzette was being punished by Joseph for her failure to obtain useful information from Noah yesterday and her failure to murder Noah.

So, she vented it out on Madeline. She always put the blame on others for her failure.

But, Madeline was indeed the one who saved Noah and disrupted Joseph’s plan.

“I checked the surveillance video just now. The gangsters came prepared; they purposely sabotaged us by destroying the most expensive dresses.”

Elise showed Madeline the footage.

She continued to say, “If they’re caught, they will probably say that they accidentally destroyed these clothes because they were drunk.”

Madeline quickly understood Elise’s meaning; she responded, “Suzette might pay for the compensation on their behalf, and we cannot do anything to them. But no amount of money can ever make up for the trust we lost with our customers.”

Elise nodded angrily. That’s why I’m upset; it’s hard for us to make it up to our customers. They will hardly buy our explanations either.

“Most of our customers pre-ordered the dresses for important occasions. Our main focus should be repairing and redoing the dresses as much as possible. Otherwise, the customers will only blame us for not taking good care of their dresses. And they will lose hope in us.”

Madeline arranged for the boutique workers to repair the dress as soon as she finished speaking with Elise.

Under Madeline’s influence, Elise perked up, and they prioritised repairing the clothes their clients desperately needed.

They requested that the factory redo the dresses that were not urgently needed.

However, because all their dresses were handmade, it would take a long time to redo every one of them.

“I heard that Lorren is in Imperia with Camelot and Hale’s team?” Madeline suddenly came up with an idea.

Elise brightened up as she heard her words, but then she was upset again. She said, “If Mr. Lorren comes to Imperia to widen their market, how would he help his competitors like us? And we didn’t even know him.”

“Who says that we don’t know him?” Madeline winked.

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