Reclaiming Her Heart
Chapter 528: Whether I like it or not doesn't matter

In the second half of the year, Cornerstone Construction and T. Rowe Price had contracts, and the Fair family's life wasn't too difficult. However, the top management issues were still unresolved.

The information had been reviewed repeatedly, and the selected individuals were all young, but apart from their resumes, she wasn't familiar with these people.

"Mr. Fair, the Fair family is about to face a bidding process with several other companies. This was a project approved by Mr. Fair a year ago to expand the Fair family's scale and build more production lines. The bidding for the land in the eastern part of the city is tomorrow. I'm worried that you are not aware, so I wanted to inform you," she said.

James, when he was still the president, had indeed thought about how to expand the company.

Now that the Fair family had agreed to participate in the bidding, even if Selena didn't want to expand the production lines, she still had to go and take a look.

"I have already sent you the information about the companies participating in the bidding," said Ann in an email.

Selena opened her computer and immediately saw the Stone family's Hengfa Group. They were in the real estate business, so acquiring land was a natural thing for them. Ann reminded her in the email.

Because this time the Fair family and Hengfa were coincidentally participating in the same bid, and combined with Olivia's previous incident of trying to acquire the Fair family, there would probably be many spectators at the bidding site, even if they were just there to witness the reunion of these two individuals.

"Ann, go there in my place," Selena said.

Ann agreed on the other end of the line.

After having breakfast, Selena received a phone call from Cornerstone Construction.

The project in Manhattan had been progressing smoothly, but when she last inspected the construction site, she mentioned her request to have a studio on the second floor. The workers asked if she wanted to change the design of the second floor or stick with the original plan.

Raymond had not given her a clear answer regarding this matter.

With a sense of responsibility and seriousness, Selena called Raymond.

But he didn't answer.

She furrowed her brows and dialed another number.

As soon as the call went through, they hung up on her, deliberately avoiding her call. Raymond knew it was her. Selena took a deep breath, and then her phone rang with a notification sound. It was a new message from Raymond. "Call me using your personal number."

Selena looked at the message and found it ridiculous. Raymond knew her personal number, but he had always believed it was his wife's. She couldn't give him her personal number. It would be best to deal with this situation and then go abroad, feeling relieved, in three months' time.

At that time, Cassius' illness should have had a new turn. She did not reply to this message, but went directly to the Montague family. Raymond sat in the office, waiting for her response. But she did not reply. His expression visibly darkened and he threw his phone aside. After dealing with the documents for half an hour, someone knocked on the office door. "Come in." Selena pushed the door open and walked in. "Mr. Montague." Raymond paused, holding the pen, and looked up at her. Her hand had already taken off the bandage and was hanging by her side. He put down the pen and looked at her dress with interest. Since she did not plan to go to the Fair family today, she was dressed very casually, wearing black wide-leg pants and a white puffy-sleeve blouse cinched at the waist. She looked thin, and wearing this outfit made her fair skin and long legs more apparent. It was the first time he had seen her dressed like this. In that moment when he looked up, his heart seemed to skip a beat. He looked at the documents in front of him. "What's the matter?" "Regarding whether we should reserve an art studio on the Manhattan side, you didn't answer me last time." Raymond shifted his gaze back to her face when he heard her supplements. "If Mr. Montague's future partner likes painting, we can reserve a studio in a south-facing position there, facing the garden. I will control the types of plants outside, as well as the sunlight. It should be very inspiring for someone who enjoys painting." "Do you like it?" Upon hearing these three words, Selena's voice paused, and then she replied, "Whether I like it or not is not important." "That's true, let's have one then." After saying this, he continued to look at the documents in his hand. "Anything else?" "Do you have any requirements for the area?" "Not too small. The room should have a separate bathroom, so it's convenient for cleaning painting tools with water." Selena didn't expect him to make this request, but she nodded. "I understand." "The walls should be white. There will definitely be many works by other artists hanging there. You should also pay attention to that. The decorations in that room should be made up of works by other artists, both domestic and foreign, with separate sections." After all, landscape paintings from abroad and those from China are different. "Mr. Montague, I've got it." "And I don't like portrait paintings." This meant that choosing works by other artists was fine, but there should be no portrait paintings. Selena pursed her lips, feeling that Raymond had added to her workload, but he was the employer and had made the request, so she had to solve it. "You are a disciple of Master Butler, so I will leave the painting matters to you. Seven or eight paintings should be enough." Selena furrowed her eyebrows at Raymond's request. "Doesn't Mr. Montague have any paintings in his collection?" Raymond, of course, did have a collection, so he was deliberately making things difficult for her.

He didn't answer the question, but instead said, "You go and pay attention to those works, I'll take care of the payment. There are a few auctions recently, there should be paintings on auction. You can come with me."