Billionaire CEO Tested a Delivery Girl—What He Found Changed Everything
Chapter 10
Six months later, Emily was no longer a delivery girl.
But she still kept her old delivery bag.
Alexander teased her about it.
“Why do you still have that?”
“Because it reminds me.”
“Of what?”
“That people don’t always see who someone really is.”
He nodded.
“That’s true.”
Their relationship had become public.
The media loved the story.
Billionaire CEO falls for delivery girl.
It sounded like a fairy tale.
But real life wasn’t a fairy tale.
Emily struggled with the attention.
She didn’t like cameras.
She didn’t like interviews.
And she hated being introduced as “Alexander Harrington’s girlfriend.”
One evening, she told him:
“I’m thinking about leaving.”
Alexander went silent.
“Why?”
“Because everyone thinks I only got here because of you.”
“You know that’s not true.”
“I know.”
“Then don’t let them decide your story.”
Emily looked at him.
“You make that sound easy.”
“It isn’t.”
“Then why?”
“Because I spent my whole life caring what people thought.”
She smiled.
“Really?”
“No.”
She laughed.
“You’re terrible at pretending.”
“I know.”
He took her hand.
“You changed my life.”
Emily looked at him.
“You changed mine too.”
He kissed her.
But the following week, a lawsuit appeared.
A former Harrington executive claimed Emily had stolen confidential company information.
The accusation was false.
But the media exploded.
Emily’s old engineering employer was contacted.
They claimed she had violated a confidentiality agreement years earlier.
Alexander’s lawyers prepared to fight.
Emily refused.
“I’ll handle it.”
“You don’t have to.”
“I know.”
She gathered her old records.
She discovered something.
The confidentiality agreement had been altered after she left.
Someone had forged her signature.
The person who had altered it was the same executive who had supervised her.
Emily realized what had happened.
Her old employer had been connected to Richard’s network.
They had tried to destroy her career years ago.
Because she had unknowingly discovered one of their shell companies.
Emily presented the evidence.
The lawsuit collapsed.
The executive was investigated.
And Emily finally understood why she had been forced out of engineering.
It hadn’t been because she wasn’t good enough.
She had been pushed out because she was too observant.
She looked at Alexander afterward.
“All those years…”
He nodded.
“They were afraid of you.”
Emily smiled sadly.
“Imagine that.”
“Why?”
“Because I spent years thinking I wasn’t good enough.”
Alexander stepped closer.
“You were never the problem.”
She leaned against him.
For the first time, Emily stopped carrying the weight of her past.
She wasn’t the woman who had failed to become an engineer.
She was the engineer who had survived people trying to silence her.
And Alexander wasn’t simply the billionaire who had tested her.
He was the man who had finally seen her.
