Charles, who was peeling apples at the side, saw Sonia’s expression and came over to express his concern. “Baby, what’s wrong?”

“Look at this.” She proceeded to pass him her phone. “I will make Tina pay for her actions. Tim.” After reading the message out loud, he stared at her wildly. “Baby, this is a text from Tim Lancaster. How did he get your number?”

“It’s easy to get hold of someone’s personal number nowadays. You just need to search around,” she muttered nonchalantly, but her frown deepened. “I’m more concerned about the contents of his text. He said he wanted to make Tina pay. Could he have been telling the truth in the ward? Is he really going to take action on those who hurt me?”

He tightened his lips. “Whatever. If he wants to make her pay, let him be. That might benefit us as well.”

“True.” Sonia nodded.

He returned the phone and said, “Alright now. Don’t reply to him. You shouldn’t forget that we still do not know of his intentions-whether or not he truly wants to take revenge on Tina. If he was lying, that text could be bait to trick us. So, we should just put this aside.”

After his explanation, she concurred. “Don’t worry. I understand.”

Next, she deleted Tim’s text from her phone while Charles munched on his apple. “By the way, I have donated that ring on your behalf.”

Her eyes flickered after she heard the remark, followed by a nod of the head. “Okay.”

“I’ll leave now. I’ll pick you up again two days later for the auction.” Charles threw the apple core into the bin and dusted his hand, after which Sonia smiled at him. “Got it.

You should get going now.”

“Bye.” He waved at her and headed toward the entrance.

Now that she was finally alone in the office, she picked up a pen from the penholder and started to bury herself in piles of documents. However, it was right then when someone knocked on the door. “President Reed!” It turned out to be Rebecca, and

she did look rather frantic.

“What is it?” Sonia stopped writing and stared at her.

Rebecca scanned the area and found a glass of water on the table. She had no time to ask before she downed all the contents.

say that the glass of water was hers, but upon hearing the gulping, she held her

way here.” She placed the cup on the table and answered Sonia after catching

surprise. “You ran all your way up here? Are you saying that you ran here using the Finance Department’s fire

ask you, so I didn’t bother to wait for the elevator.”

forehead, Sonia beamed and handed the woman a tissue. “Wipe your

accepted the

a glass of water from the water cooler and placed it in

the bin and put on a serious expression. “President Reed, who’s that Mr. Johann? He went ahead and settled our loans across all the banks. I

what are you talking about? Who’s Mr. Johann,

Sonia’s reaction, Rebecca blinked. “You don’t know

heard of this Mr. Johann you’re

settle all our debts? The repayment statement clearly stated that he is a close acquaintance of yours. Obviously, he settled the debts for you. Why wouldn’t you know him then? Could he be

saying that Mr. Johann has settled all our bank loans? Do I understand

debt. In the future, our revenue will belong to us instead of the banks,” Rebecca confirmed with joy. However,

repay all of Paradigm Co.’s loans. This was not a free lunch for Sonia. Instead, she suspected that this was a trap. Who’d be so

the repayment?” She scrunched

time, Rebecca slapped her forehead. “Yes! I almost forgot about it. Give me a second. I’ll

spoke, she extracted a stack of papers with the repayment information from the file and

Sonia did not immediately read it. “Did you

the first thing.” Rebecca shook her head, much

to work now. Keep this a secret for now. Do not announce it loudly. We’ll make a

Rebecca agreed and

through the stack of information in the hope of finding some

she found

even a second, she searched for the contact named Z-H in her WhatsApp. This time,

was in the middle of a meeting when a

speak up in the

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