Right Person, Wrong Time

Chapter 81

Chapter 81 The Whisperings

Tony immediately shut his mouth and turned his gaze away from his boss’ chin. He then sputtered out his report at the speed of light and finally heaved a breath of relief when he had finished his presentation.

“President Gardner, that is all for the pre-new year’s plan. I’ll leave the information you need on the table. I’ll be leaving first if there is nothing else.”

Just as he was about to slip away, he only managed to take a few steps out of the office before that familiar, commanding voice told him to stand right where he was.

Tony’s body stiffened for a second there. He then abruptly turned around and peered at his boss with careful eyes. “Is there anything else, President Gardner?” he asked cautiously.

He couldn’t risk acting out-of-line today. He had to be extra careful when dealing with Colton, who was behaving, unlike his usual self.

“Do you have a bandage?” Colton’s low voice surprisingly rang out with a darkened face as he asked his secretary for a bandage.

“Huh?” Tony thought he heard Colton wrong. He finally responded when his eyes fell on the injury again. “Ah. I…I don’t.”

ordered

to be told twice as he nodded and

known that the small injury would garner such big reactions from the people around him, he would have

not expected, however, was how much more eye-catching his

noticed how the regular employees kept throwing glances at him and his chin when the executives were giving their reports during a meeting. They even had the nerve to start chattering amongst themselves after

what they were mumbling about, but he knew for sure that they were talking about his

understatement to say how much he

more conspicuous with the bandage on

glances every now and then

actions, anyway. He had thought that the most the injury would do was bleed a little. Never would he have thought that teeth marks would

out in the office

of situation

and only President Gardner, who had been in abstinence for years, actually came

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