Life at the Top

As soon as he said those words, everyone’s faces turned dark and somber.

Conrad felt like the fire within him had been ignited. Even though he managed to keep a lid on it, it was at the brink of exploding at any time.

“How ignorant can you get?!” Conrad said with a sneer.

Henry was full of smiles as he was pleased to see Conrad and Mitch infuriated yet were unable to vent out their frustrations. They looked as if they had eaten a fly.

After clearing his throat, Dwayne turned to Jasper. He was unsure what Jasper had up his sleeve, so he asked, “Mr. Laine, are you sure you want to make those two motions you mentioned earlier?”

“I’m sure.” Jasper nodded, giving Dwayne his affirmation.

Dwayne sighed. Seeing how Jasper was determined to embarrass himself, he made no further attempts to stop him and said, “Now that Mr. Laine, holding 24% of the shares, has made the motions, we will begin voting on the first motion.”

“I object.”

the same time Dwayne

cleared his throat and said, “Mr. Monty, holding 40% of the shares, objects. I abstain from voting on behalf of the

Dwayne said those words, he turned to look at Colin Walter who had yet to say a word so far. After thinking about it, Dwayne thought it was

spoken yet.

for a moment and gazed at Jasper with a look

that he

of the embarrassing situation lest he felt humiliated by the absolute majority. What was

his vote, then so be it. We still need to go with the standard operating procedure no matter what.” Conrad burst

took off the gold-rimmed glasses resting on the

Does it feel that good to be humiliated in public? If that’s really what you want, then hey, move your face closer. Let me swing my arm and give you

“I agree.”

unexpected words left Conrad’s hands frozen in the air. Thinking that he was probably having auditory hallucinations, his head shot up abruptly. He turned his incredulous and furious

fixedly at the conference table without blinking. He did not