Boss, Your Wife's Asking For A Divorce, Again

Asher was caught between a rock and a hard place; if he were to walk out on Paradigm Co., he would immediately be replaced and with Toby blacklisting him in the industry, he wouldn’t be able to join any other enterprise. He would have nowhere to turn to and his whole career would be done for.

More to the point, he never intended to leave in the first place.

At this moment, Toby kept his eyes on Sonia as he asked, “So, what do you think?”

As much as she disliked the idea of keeping Asher around, she was more apprehensive toward the idea of having Toby’s people working in the company. With that in mind, she nodded and answered flippantly, “Well, President Dafoe did say that he was only joking, so I’ll take his word for it and brush this incident off.”

“Alright, then.” Toby was slightly dejected by this and pressed his lips into a grim line.

He had hoped that she would agree to his suggestion and allow Asher as well as his subordinates to leave Paradigm Co. That way, he could send his team over as promised and use that as an excuse to see her as often as he would like.

Meanwhile, Asher let out a huge sigh of relief after hearing what she had said. Thank heavens she has the good sense to say all the right things; otherwise, I’d be doomed!

Sonia eyed him impassively. “Are you still planning to oppose my decision to delist, President Dafoe?”

He snapped out of his thoughts. He didn’t want to concede, but when his gaze flickered over to Toby, he swallowed his retort and was immediately agreeable. “Of course not, Sonia. You can do whatever you want.”

“In that case, I’m going to put the word out. Now, is there anything else you’d like to discuss, President Dafoe?” She had as good as told him to get out of her office.

The corners of Asher’s lips twitched slightly. “Not at all. Carry on with your work, Sonia. I shan’t bother you anymore and take my leave now.”

The moment he spun around, the smile on his face was replaced by a menacing grimace.

He had walked into her office with the thought that he could wheedle Sonia into giving up her share of authority by threatening to leave the company if she didn’t.

What he hadn’t expected was for Toby to put his foot in and ruin his plans. As things were, Toby would rise to Sonia’s defense for as long as their collaboration was an ongoing concern. It will only make it harder for me to deal with that wench, Asher thought, gritting his teeth. I have to find a way to ruin their collaboration!

After Asher left in defeat, peace and serenity returned to the office once more. Sonia tucked her hair behind her ear as she thanked Toby for speaking up for her.

Toby gave her a bemused look. “You’ve already thanked me half a dozen times today.”

said, “I know, but it’s only polite

if he hadn’t interfered. Prior to this, she had already made up her mind to go head-to-head with Asher, should he oppose the delisting. If he threatened to leave the company, well, she

into a small or medium enterprise. As long as the company remained, there was still a

of courtesy. I know things have been tense between you and Asher; you could have taken the chance to throw him out of Paradigm Co.

know that, but I didn’t think there

just hate the idea of having my people under your nose?” He

though she wanted to say something, but ultimately did

had been right. She didn’t want his people under her nose and although he grew frustrated at

the phone on her desk and called Daphne’s line. “Get all the documents ready for the

thought President Dafoe was against the

massaged her temple in exhaustion. “He

“Really?”

Sonia nodded. “Really!”

at the turn of

Sonia put the receiver down and

his phone out as he said mildly, “I’ll call up the government department and have them

small smile; she was a little surprised by

his seat and walked out to the balcony to make the call, only to return a few minutes later

felt her skin prickle with a bad

like that.” He kept his phone away and explained, “It’s just that there is a whole crowd of reporters waiting by the company’s entrance. I’d say

and while the dozen of them were all tough and capable in their own right, they couldn’t possibly hold back a crowd of reporters. As such, before he returned to the office, he rang the security company and had them dispatch another two mid-sized teams to the scene, but they wouldn’t arrive until at

reporters alongside crazed netizens showed up to demand statements and comments from me. I had Daphne call the police to bring those netizens away, but the reporters have the freedom of press, so we couldn’t do anything about

press was not gathered in a strictly off-limits area, the police could not exercise jurisdiction against

and muttered thoughtfully, “That

passive-aggressive form of threat. However, when Toby had arrived, he didn’t see those netizens at all.

clueless as to

flashed her a

him any further, seeing that