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.

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 the books fall

forced himself to endure the inhumane punishment, thinking

Bureau of Investigation, I’ll be sure

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

must hate me to

up slightly and retracted his gaze as he replied, “No, sir. You’re my superior, so I will obey your every command and give you my

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 future ahead of you, but that is only if you learn

up on Jennifer and submit to Gwendolyn

it and replied. “You’re right, Mr. Jenson. I will follow protocol and refrain from disobeying the

retrieved a timer from his drawer and placed it

his gaze, he saw that

a minute… That means the past twenty minutes didn’t count! This

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

breathing and clenched his teeth in an effort to maintain his

be 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

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

hour felt like a year to him, but he kept his eyes on

was sweating so much that he looked as though he had just taken

got so quiet that one could clearly hear the sound of

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

timer was stuck at two minutes

were deceiving him, he closed his eyes and blinked a few times, but

going on

so focused on his work that he

Jenson?” Craig called out to him, but Cedrick

more minutes, Craig

might be broken,”

Cedrick arched an eyebrow as he continued without even looking at the timer, “The timer probably wasn’t doing a good job at keeping time, then.

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

were trembling from fatigue, but he

asked with a sarcastic 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 to the safety and comfort of your house after leaving the Federal Bureau