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.”

Colton ordered him with a

to be told twice as he nodded

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

much more eye-catching his chin had become after he slapped

how the regular employees kept throwing glances at him and his chin when the executives were giving their reports during a meeting. They even

make out what they were mumbling about, but he knew for sure that they

an understatement to say how much he felt like a zoo animal surrounded

begin with, but it did get more conspicuous with the bandage on his chin. Finally, after the persistent whisperings in his ears,

were throwing glances every now and then were now staring directly at

do was bleed a

out in the office

kind of

for years, actually came to work with teeth

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