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.”

expressed his opinion at almost the same

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

look at Colin Walter who had yet to say a word so far. After thinking about it, Dwayne thought it was pointless for him to prompt the other man and announced straight away, “Because the majority voted against the first motion, I announce

on, Mr. Martin. Mr. Walter has not spoken yet. Isn’t

moment and gazed at Jasper with a

was too hard-headed that he had

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

he wants Colin to give his vote, then so be it. We still need to go with the standard operating procedure

glasses resting on the bridge of his nose, slowly wiping the lenses with a glass cleaning

it feel that good to be humiliated in public? If that’s really what you want, then

“I agree.”

that he was probably having auditory hallucinations, his head shot up abruptly. He turned his incredulous and furious gaze

staring fixedly at the conference table without