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.

last an hour, then you can forget

held his breath and forced himself to endure the inhumane punishment, thinking

of Investigation, I’ll be sure

man from time to time while working on the computer, he noticed

me

my superior, so I will obey your every command and give

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

on

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

retrieved a timer from his drawer

his gaze, he saw that the timer was

didn’t count! This

doing five hundred pushups, they were trembling

breathing and clenched his teeth

suspended if even a single one of those books fell, and the mere whisper of such an incident would tarnish his reputation significantly. This, in turn, would have a detrimental effect on Newton Group’s stocks, triggering a rapid decline in

the dire consequences that could follow, Craig absolutely could not

hour felt like a year to him, but he kept

and his legs were starting to tremble uncontrollably. Craig was sweating so much that he looked as though he had just taken

documents, the office got so quiet that one could clearly hear the

forced himself to stay alert as he waited for it

the timer was stuck at two minutes

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

What’s going on

his work that he

Cedrick ignored him completely and continued

for a few more minutes, Craig was starting

might be

without even looking at the timer, “The timer probably wasn’t

since I last saw Cedrick torment

from fatigue,

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