“Thank you, Mr. Dafoe. But that’s to be expected from us, isn’t it? If we aren’t decisive, it’d be hard to manage the team, don’t you think?” Sonia smiled politely.

Asher wanted to shout, but he couldn’t, so he swallowed his pride. “That’s right, Sonia.”

 

“I’m glad we’re on the same page. Seems like I made a great decision. After all, if they can betray their boss, they might even sell their company out someday. Best we cut them off sooner rather than later, am I right?” Sonia continued.

Asher forced a smile. He was so mad that he could kill, but he had to play along for the moment. “Yes. That is a great decision, Sonia.” My foot. I spent a lot of money to turn them to my side, but they got fired right after that. I lost my supporters and my money. Dammit.

“Thanks for the praise. I’ll be going in now.” Sonia ignored his forced smile and nodded before going into the conference room.

But Asher suddenly stopped her. “Hold on a second, Sonia.”

 

Sonia stopped and looked at him. “Anything else you need, Mr. Dafoe?”

Asher straightened his necktie out. “My sources told me you’re handing the proposal about alternative energy technology in today, aren’t you?”

 

at him for a moment. She wondered why he was asking that, but

He wasn’t looking down on her, but he just thought Sonia and Paradigm weren’t up to par. It’d be a miracle if she manages to take this deal. Even if she’s hooking up with President Fuller, the

knew that, of course, so anger flared up within her, but her smile didn’t falter. “I hope so

for the good news, then. I just hope it’ll turn out for the best, or it’ll be awkward for at least one of us.” Asher chuckled and patted her shoulder

off, as if she got something dirty stuck on it. But she had to admit she felt a lot of pressure after what Asher told her. She was confident in her proposal, and the professors praised it, but there was no guarantee if there were any better proposals. It might be possible that

deal, but if I can’t, I’ll just come up with another way to wrest control from Asher. She patted her cheeks, composed herself, and

few mouthfuls of the lunch Daphne bought for her before she took

the elevator. “Please head to the waiting room on the thirty-eighth floor, Miss

receptionist before she went into the elevator. A short while later,

heard someone knocking. When he looked up and saw it was Sonia, he

smiled at him and walked in with her proposal. “Here’s my

got it.” Tom took it with both hands and placed

the proposals from all

and accounted for, aside from

Sonia nodded in understanding.

her to take a seat. “Have a seat, Miss Reed. I’ll make

but a big part of it was because she didn’t want to stay any longer. After all, lots of people here knew she was Toby’s ex-wife. If she stayed any longer, Tina might find out about it and

stay, and he sent

back down.

she left. A moment later, Tina came out of the car, glaring at the direction Sonia left,

squinted, but she put on her usual smile a moment later and went

receptionist saw her, she greeted, “Hello, Miss

knew Tina was Toby’s fiancee. Besides, she came to the company all the time to see Toby, so everyone saw her before. Naturally, it was easy

with a smile. “Is Toby

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