Kneeling for a Second Chance Novel

---- Chapter 353 Queenie had even done the interview. But once the magazine was printed , every word about her was deleted. The clothes she had designed were credited only to Sabrina. When Queenie confronted Sabrina, what she received instead was a termination letter. Sabrina knew she held evidence. Originally, Queenie had planned to use it as leverage for money. But Sabrina pretended to agree, tricked her into handing over the USB drive, and then launched an industry-wide blacklist against her. Fortunately, Queenie had been cautious enough to make a copy.

Now that she was blacklisted everywhere , she had no choice but to seek refuge with Etoile. Etoile had just secured a collaboration with the Grant Group, and its reputation in the industry was soaring. Valeria looked at her. "I don't want this." What happened with Sabrina had nothing to do with her. Over the past years, Sabrina had carefully packaged her public persona as a star designer . Yet, none of her breakout works had been her own. Sooner or later, her light would fade. She could only get away with so much before it caught up to her. And Etoile would never take Queenie in.

Etoile had its own principles. It wouldn't hire someone with such crooked ---- motives. "Do you blame me for stealing your manuscript, Valeria? Sabrina made me do it. Iwas coerced. Thad no choice." Queenie clutched Valeria's arm tightly. "Valeria, we worked together for three years. We were so close." Valeria pulled her arm free, her tone cold. "Are you sure you were coerced? Or was it that you wanted to join Sabrina's team, and handed her my draft as your offering?" "Queenie , we may have been colleagues back then. We were even friends.

But not anymore." In the busy commercial building, plenty of eyes turned toward them. A security guard even walked over, asking if Valeria needed help. "valeria, don't think I don't know. You were already sleeping with the president of the Grant Group three years ago, and now you're acting all noble and pure? "Can you honestly say you don't want what's on this USB? Didn't you land the deal by seducing a man? Who's to say this partnership with the Grant Group wasn't because you slept your way in?" Dragged away by security, Queenie struggled, her heart burning with hatred for Valeria.

Why was it that they had both started as ordinary employees at LM, yet Valeria was now a rising star designer? After everything she'd done in secret for Sabrina, she was left with nothing? ---- Her designs had been stolen, and her talents drained away bit by bit. She was 30 this year. Why did Valeria's 30 look so different from hers? They had both come from ordinary families. Why was the gap between them now so vast? Three years ago, she had left LM with Sabrina, thinking it was the chance of a lifetime.

Sabrina was a rising star designer , backed by a wealthy family, basking in the spotlight, with resources pouring in. Queenie had thought her own career would climb to a new height. Instead , the past three years had been nothing but assistant chores. She was stitching, patching, ghost designing, and even feeding Sabrina's team with her ideas. "Ms. Neal, are you alright ?" An Etoile employee swiped his card, got out, and came to stand beside Valeria. Valeria shook her head. "It's fine." She lifted a hand, gently smoothing back her hair. Just then, her phone rang. It was Sebastian calling.