“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?”

 

wondered why he was asking that, but

smiled fakely. 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 Grays wouldn’t let her succeed. Either way, Asher didn’t think she could win, so he was just wishing her well out of

of course, so anger flared up within her, but her smile didn’t falter. “I hope so too, but nothing’s sure until the dust settles, am I

hope it’ll turn out for the best, or it’ll be awkward for at least one

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

get the 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,

few mouthfuls of the lunch Daphne

what she was here for, she brought Sonia to the elevator. “Please head to the waiting room on the thirty-eighth

receptionist before she went into

When he looked up and saw it was Sonia, he quickly stood up. “Come in

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

it with both hands and placed it on the

arched her eyebrow. “Are these the proposals from all the

Everyone’s present and accounted for,

Sonia nodded in understanding.

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

did have work to do, 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 cause a scene. That crazy

stay, and he

said goodbye and went back down. Then she left

out of the car, glaring at the direction Sonia left,

put on her usual smile a moment later and

saw her,

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

nodded with a

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