The Ex and Her Riches

Craig went pale and clenched his jaw slightly.

He was fairly exhausted after completing over five hundred pushups in a row, and there were over four hours left until he would get off work.

Just how much does Cedrick plan on abusing me?

Cedrick smirked when he saw the nervous look in Craig’s eyes. “Spread your legs about shoulder width apart and hold a squat position for an hour!” he ordered coldly.

That’s it? I just have to hold a squat position?

“Yes, sir.”

Craig breathed a sigh of relief and quickly got into a squat position with perfect form.

He was sweating profusely from the hot air blowing at him, but he maintained his position and controlled his breathing while counting the time.

Cedrick simply stared at him for a while without saying a word. He then made his way to the bookshelf behind Craig.

As Craig didn’t dare turn around, he couldn’t see what Cedrick was doing. All he heard was the clomp of Cedrick’s military boots that grew distant before getting closer and closer.

The next thing Craig knew, Cedrick had returned to his desk with a huge stack of books.

Oh, no… I have a bad feeling about this…

Sure enough, Cedrick proceeded to arrange the books into two separate stacks and placed them on top of Craig’s thighs

In order to prevent the book from falling off, Craig had no choice but to lower his squat by a couple of inches.

When Cedrick saw that Craig was handling it rather well, he prepared another two stacks of books and walked up to the latter once again.

“Hold your arms out with the palms facing upward,” he ordered.

Craig complied with the order, and Cedrick placed a stack of books in each hand.

Despite how agonizing it was, Craig simply clenched his teeth and endured it in silence.

sipped on his iced coffee as he said, “If you can’t even last an hour, then you

himself to endure the inhumane punishment, thinking of

over the Federal Bureau of Investigation, I’ll be

to time while working on the computer, he noticed the vengeful look

me to the bone,

sir. You’re my

him out on his lie. “You’re a subordinate, so you should learn to behave like one. It’s not a good thing

give up on Jennifer and submit to

in mind, Craig went along with it and replied. “You’re right, Mr. Jenson. I will follow protocol and refrain from disobeying

further as he retrieved a timer from his drawer and

that the timer was counting down from sixty

past twenty minutes didn’t count! This guy

pushups, they were trembling slightly from

quickly adjusted his breathing and clenched his teeth in an effort to

those books fell, and the mere whisper of such an incident would tarnish his reputation significantly. This, in turn, would have a detrimental effect

the dire consequences that could follow, Craig absolutely could not allow

like a year to him, but he kept his eyes

legs were starting to tremble uncontrollably. Craig was sweating so much that he looked as though he had just taken a shower. The puddle of sweat beneath him continued to expand in size

office got so quiet that one could clearly hear the sound of Craig’s sweat

minutes left on the timer. Craig forced himself to stay alert as he waited

stuck at two

his eyes and blinked a few times,

going

his work that he didn’t even look at

Craig called out to him, but Cedrick ignored him completely and

a few more minutes, Craig was starting to feel mental fortitude

Jenson, the timer might be

without even looking at the timer, “The timer probably wasn’t doing a good job at

been so long since I last saw Cedrick torment someone. I can’t believe he’s still

arms and legs were trembling from fatigue,

it anymore? In that case, go ahead and hand in your resignation. You can go back to the safety and comfort of