The Man’s Decree

Maria had previously asked Franklin for Gary’s number. When the latter answered, she rudely snapped, “Do you know the time now? How much longer do you want me to wait? You don’t even care about punctuality! Don’t forget that it’s your family begging me for a favor! Yet, you want me to wait?”

She hung up right after saying that without giving Gary any chance to respond.

Meanwhile, Gary was stunned for a long while after the phone conversation ended. Embarrassment showed on his face, and he felt chagrined at having been lectured by the young Maria at his age. But recalling that Kai had to depend on her to recommend him a job, he endured the humiliation.

“Who was that on the phone, Dad?” Kai queried.

“It was Maria. She’s already waiting downstairs, so hurry up and go down. Remember to speak nicely to her.”

Gary started urging him to go downstairs.

After Kai went downstairs, he saw Maria waiting at the entrance. Hence, he went over to her and murmured apologetically, “I’m sorry to have kept you waiting.”

The moment Maria spotted him, she promptly barked with fury etched on her face, “If it weren’t for my father’s orders, I wouldn’t have come to pick you up! Look at your dressing! What era is that suit from? How dated!”

suppressed his anger and explained, “I bought it three years ago, but I’ve

era would wear such an

I go back up and

it! There’s no time for that when it’s already late now! Hurry up and get into the car!”

snarled at him when he opened the car door, “Sit in the back! Do you think you’re worthy of sitting in

Kai frowned again though he did as ordered and slipped into the back seat.

or he would have

that you can’t mention anything about being acquainted with me when we arrive at the office! Also, I don’t care whether you pass the interview. Don’t expect me to help you either! It’s already benevolent of me to recommend you for an

on during the drive, mainly forbidding him from saying that

Kai merely gave her a placid one-worded

time, they arrived at Maria’s company. It was a corporate group with more than a dozen floors in the entire

belongs to the Sullivan family?” Kai stared at the gigantic signboard of the company with his head lifted,

to the Sullivan family. I remember Josephine saying that William established it on her birthday as a