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.

back to his desk and sipped on his iced coffee as he said, “If you can’t even last an hour, then you can forget about being the deputy director. Do not let any of

to endure the

the Federal Bureau of Investigation, I’ll be sure to make Cedrick

from time to time while working on the

must hate me

You’re my superior, so I

out a chuckle and decided not to call him out on his lie. “You’re a subordinate, so you should learn to behave like one. It’s not a good thing to be too full of yourself. You have a bright

up on Jennifer and submit to Gwendolyn

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

a timer from his drawer

lowered his gaze, he saw that the timer was counting down from sixty

past twenty minutes didn’t count! This guy sure knows

his arms were somewhat fatigued from doing five hundred pushups, they were trembling slightly from the extra weight of

and clenched his teeth in an

even a single one of those books fell, and the mere whisper of such an incident would tarnish his reputation significantly. This, in

the dire consequences that could follow,

a year to him, but he kept his eyes on

that he looked as though he had just taken a shower. The puddle of sweat beneath him continued to

office got so quiet that one

Craig forced himself to stay alert as

the timer was stuck at two minutes and

him, he closed his eyes and blinked a few times, but the digits on

What’s going

focused on his work that he didn’t

Jenson?” Craig called out to him, but Cedrick ignored him completely and continued working

holding on for a few more minutes, Craig was starting to

the timer might be broken,”

timer probably wasn’t doing a good job at keeping time, then. I’ll get a new

since I last saw Cedrick torment someone. I can’t believe he’s still as ruthless as

and legs were trembling from fatigue,

grin, “What’s the matter? You can’t take it anymore? In that case, go ahead and hand in your resignation. You can go back