“Aren’t you going in?” By now, Toby was also aware that Sonia was here for the meeting, even though he had no idea how she managed to secure a place in the meeting.
She bit her lower lip in hesitation and answered, “Why don’t you head in first? I don’t want to enter at the same time as you.”
At that moment, she could tell that the room was bustling with activity from the muffled sounds.
If she entered the room with him, the attendees might gossip about them due to the awkward nature of their relationship.
Toby sensed her concern and lowered his gaze. “There are three minutes left. If you’re late, you will lose the right to join.”
After that, he pushed the door open and entered the room, leaving her standing alone and gawking at him.
Was that a kind reminder?
Sonia regardlessly took his words in all seriousness and turned to her wristwatch. A minute later, she took a deep breath and stepped into the room.
Her appearance had caused widespread shock and exclamation.
“Isn’t this President Fuller’s ex-wife?”
also the vice president of Paradigm
Co.? How were they invited to this meeting if they’re on
started whispering and murmuring
was sorting the materials in
and that observation made him smile. A
hand, Titus scrunched his eyes and stared maliciously at her, as if he wanted to tear her apart in the next
Instead, she smiled at him
saw his mother in Sonia’s demeanor, especially the provocative smile on Sonia’s face that
her intently. As she had no interest to guess, she looked away and
at the head of the table, she assumed
realizing that, her heart sank
already losing confidence in her ability to clinch the partnership because Paradigm Co.’s competitive advantage was lackluster. Still, she harbored a sliver of
that she had learned that the initiator of the partnership was her ex-husband who had no feelings—but probably some hatred—for her, the situation had changed. He would definitely not
low and she appeared downcast due to the
frowned slightly and wondered, What’s
time.” At the same time, Tom reminded his boss
shifted his gaze from Sonia and placed the materials for the meeting on the table. Next, he scanned the faces in the room and
“Yes.” Everyone nodded.
research department. It can be
in his seat, he added, “The government has been notified of the success of this new technology. Due to the concerns about monopoly, Fuller Group was prohibited from launching it, which is why I have gathered everyone here to select five suitable partners who would implement this technology
Sonia mumbled, “Oh,
organizer had such cutting edge technology, why didn’t they keep it to
that could upset the balance of the domestic
mean. However, I have
him. “What
landed on Sonia and she immediately understood that he was
invite the top twenty companies in Seafield, from which you will select five partners for this project. This begs the question: Why is a representative of Paradigm Co. present
attendees were now looking at
Sonia was placed on the spot, she tightened her fists as her
the city to the meeting. How did Asher manage to secure a seat for
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