Luna and Laura both stilled when they heard Joshua's voice.
The color had drained from Laura’s face. She pursed her lips slightly and glanced first at Joshua, then at Luna. "I...I said that I wanted to compete with Ms. Luna...for..."
"Compete for my affection?" Joshua strode into the room, sneering, and reached Luna's side. Then, he reached out and pulled her to his form. "Dr. Suess, Lucas was the one who persuaded me to employ you as the family doctor.
"Initially, I had wanted to find a male doctor, but since Lucas has worked for me for so many years now, I trust his instincts, so I didn't object when he recommended you.
"From the moment you stepped into my house, I knew you weren't content with our relationship as employer and family doctor, and because of this, I had deliberately been keeping my distance from you."
He curled his lips into a smirk and glanced coldly at Laura. "I just never thought that you'd one day have the audacity to even challenge my wife so brazenly."
He lowered his head to shoot Luna a tender glance and added, "Please don't take notice of her."
Joshua's attitude was clear.
Laura remained motionless and stared intently at Joshua, her fists clenched next to her. "Mr. Lynch, I don’t understand; what is it about Luna that makes you so attracted to her?
"She's utterly useless! Have you forgotten her failure in running the company as soon as she took over as Landry Group CEO? As the daughter of the Landry family, she had not even been capable of running the family business, so what is it that you see in her?
"Do you love her because she's a failure and has no achievements whatsoever?"
As she said this, Laura could not help snickering. "What a sad, sad life. A woman shouldn't be like this, sitting at home all day with nothing to show. This is why I spent all my life working hard and building my career.
"After so many years of hard work, I finally achieved my dreams of becoming a doctor and finally met the man of my dreams, but what happened?
After that, she became the heiress of the Landry family and led a life full of wealth and prosperity.
Every time Laura saw news of Luna, she could not stop herself from gossiping to the people around her, "What does this woman have apart from a pretty face?
"Why on earth are Mr. Malcolm Quinn and Mr. Joshua Lynch willing to fight over her? She's just a useless bimbo, and one day, as she ages, she'll lose her looks—the only thing she's got going for her."
Laura would constantly use this as a means not only to talk bad about Luna but advise herself not to become like her.
The reason no man ever pursued her was
that she never spent as much time on her looks as these bimbos did!
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