Since Toby allowed it, Tom didn’t need to hold back anymore. He nodded and said, “Miss Gray showed up not long after I accepted Miss Reed’s proposal. She was here to hand in her company’s proposal as well. Halfway through, I had to leave to make some coffee for Miss Gray, so I left all the proposals in the room, and there wasn’t anyone besides her back then.”

There was no need for further explanation from Tom, since everyone could see Tina was the one who did the switcheroo. Toby stared down, disappointed in Tina’s behavior.

 

“Nonsense!” Titus shot up and glared at Tom. “How dare you slander my daughter! Toby, your assistant is spewing lies!” Titus knew his daughter was the one who did it, but he couldn’t admit to it no matter what.

“President Gray, I’m an honest man. I didn’t lie at all. If you don’t believe me, I can show you the surveillance camera’s footage,” Tom rebutted unhappily. He worked to his bone to get to where he was, so he wouldn’t slander anyone, or he would have been fired a long time ago.

All the color drained from Titus’ face when Tom said he had evidence to back him up.

Sonia mocked, “What a nice daughter you have, President Gray. She went really far to get this deal, didn’t she?”

 

“True. This is an… eye-opening experience, so to speak,” someone agreed.

Titus was fuming, but he couldn’t do anything. All he wanted to do then was find some place to hide, for there was nothing but humiliation for him here. He had never felt so embarrassed before, not even when he was arrested.

 

different. Everyone knew Tina did a switcheroo, and they even thought

taking the hit like he wanted her to. He hated Toby for exposing him publicly, but most of all, he hated Tina

Since Titus had lost the battle, Sonia lost interest in him. So she turned to Toby. “Now that the truth is

the truth, I hereby announce that we shall no longer be working with Titus Gray. President Reed shall be

spot belonged to Sonia in the first place, and not to mention Sonia’s proposal was a decent

Gray?” Toby

not at all.” Not that

to Sonia. “You heard them. What

she finally got the partnership after going through so much. Yes!

lasted a moment. He was about to say something, but then Sonia blurted,

that, everyone in the room buzzed with excitement. Oh ho. Seems like she’s a greedy one.

“Don’t push your luck,

you mean ‘push my luck?’ I’m the victim here, so why shouldn’t I get fair compensation? That reminds me, President Gray. You’re the perpetrator here,

you…” Titus’ eyes were starting to roll to

to Toby. “President Fuller, I handed in my proposal in your company, but yet someone still managed to switch it out. You’re the boss, so take some responsibility here. You don’t want everyone

Reed is right.” Someone nodded. “You should

for this fiasco. I sincerely apologize for our staff’s mistake, Miss Reed.” Then he stood up, put his hand on his belly, and bowed at

my fault, Miss Reed. I’m really sorry

better after they apologized, then she looked at Titus. “President Fuller has

apologize too?” Titus stared

“Why not? Yes, you weren’t the one who did it, but you could potentially be the mastermind. Even if you aren’t, you wanted to sweep this under the rug and pretend the proposal’s not mine. If Mr. Brown didn’t bring up the fact that he has evidence, you would have insisted that my proposal is yours. Shouldn’t you apologize for

Reed is right, President Gray. You insisted that the proposal’s yours, not hers. Everyone saw that too. We know what you were planning, so you’d better say

him as a joke even more. He took a deep breath, held his fury down, and glared darkly at Sonia. “Fine, I’ll apologize. I’m

to me, but it’s already good enough that you apologized. I’ll reluctantly

Titus out. What do you mean ‘reluctantly’? I’ll

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