Asher was caught between a rock and a hard place; if he were to walk out on Paradigm Co., he would immediately be replaced and with Toby blacklisting him in the industry, he wouldn’t be able to join any other enterprise. He would have nowhere to turn to and his whole career would be done for.
More to the point, he never intended to leave in the first place.
At this moment, Toby kept his eyes on Sonia as he asked, “So, what do you think?”
As much as she disliked the idea of keeping Asher around, she was more apprehensive toward the idea of having Toby’s people working in the company. With that in mind, she nodded and answered flippantly, “Well, President Dafoe did say that he was only joking, so I’ll take his word for it and brush this incident off.”
“Alright, then.” Toby was slightly dejected by this and pressed his lips into a grim line.
He had hoped that she would agree to his suggestion and allow Asher as well as his subordinates to leave Paradigm Co. That way, he could send his team over as promised and use that as an excuse to see her as often as he would like.
Meanwhile, Asher let out a huge sigh of relief after hearing what she had said. Thank heavens she has the good sense to say all the right things; otherwise, I’d be doomed!
Sonia eyed him impassively. “Are you still planning to oppose my decision to delist, President Dafoe?”
He snapped out of his thoughts. He didn’t want to concede, but when his gaze flickered over to Toby, he swallowed his retort and was immediately agreeable. “Of course not, Sonia. You can do whatever you want.”
“In that case, I’m going to put the word out. Now, is there anything else you’d like to discuss, President Dafoe?” She had as good as told him to get out of her office.
with your work, Sonia. I shan’t bother you anymore and take
spun around, the smile on his face was replaced by a
Sonia into giving up her share of authority by threatening
expected was for Toby to put his foot in and ruin his plans. As things were, Toby would rise to Sonia’s defense for as long as their collaboration was an ongoing concern. It will only make it harder
the office once more. Sonia tucked her hair behind
bemused look. “You’ve already thanked
seat and said, “I know, but it’s only polite
she was sure that she could have handled Asher on her own even if he hadn’t interfered. Prior to this, she had already made up her mind to go head-to-head with Asher, should he oppose the delisting. If he threatened to leave the company, well, she
that she would have to downsize Paradigm Co. and turn it into a small or medium enterprise. As long as
have to thank me out of courtesy. I know things have been tense between you and Asher; you could have taken the chance to throw him out of Paradigm
I didn’t
of having my people under
say something, but ultimately did not and turned her
had been right. She didn’t want his people under her nose and
called Daphne’s line. “Get all the documents ready for the delisting and send them over to the
thought President Dafoe was against the
her temple in exhaustion.
“Really?”
Sonia nodded. “Really!”
turn of events. “That’s wonderful. I’ll start to
Sonia put
took his phone out as he said mildly, “I’ll call up the government department and have them process the application
small smile; she was a little surprised by
walked out to the balcony to make the call, only to return
her skin prickle with a bad premonition. “What is it? Did
kept his phone away and explained, “It’s just that there is a whole crowd of
team of bodyguards and while the dozen of them were all tough and capable in their own right, they couldn’t possibly hold back a crowd of reporters. As such, before he returned to the
“I bet this has something to do with Tina’s livestream. When she uploaded the post on social media earlier, about twenty or thirty reporters
strictly off-limits area, the police could not exercise jurisdiction against them, which was a
and muttered thoughtfully, “That
Sonia as some passive-aggressive form of threat. However, when
asked, clueless as to what Toby was referring
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