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.

 

on with your work, Sonia. I shan’t bother you anymore and take

he spun around, the smile on his face

could wheedle Sonia into giving up her

as long as their collaboration was an ongoing concern.

defeat, peace and serenity returned to the office once more. Sonia tucked her hair behind her ear as she thanked Toby for speaking up for

“You’ve already thanked me half

took her seat and said, “I know, but it’s only polite for me

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

could happen was that she would have to downsize Paradigm Co. and turn it into a small or medium enterprise. As long as the company

from her. “You don’t actually have to thank me out of courtesy. I know things have been tense between you and Asher; you could have taken

gaze darkened. “I know that, but I didn’t think there was a need

think? Or, do you just hate the idea of having my people under your nose?” He stared at her

something, but ultimately did not and turned her head away in

this, Toby knew instantly that he had been right. She didn’t want his people under her nose and although

her desk and called Daphne’s line. “Get all the documents ready for the delisting and send them over to

Dafoe was against the delisting, though,”

her temple in exhaustion. “He changed

“Really?”

Sonia nodded. “Really!”

turn of events. “That’s wonderful.

Sonia put the receiver down and ended

his phone out as he said mildly, “I’ll call up the government department and have them process the application for delisting as soon as your secretary

she was a little surprised by how much

and walked out to the balcony to make the call, only to return a few minutes later with

with a bad premonition. “What is it?

there is a whole crowd of reporters waiting by the company’s entrance. I’d say there are

had only brought with him a mid-sized 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 office, he rang the security

Tina’s livestream. When she uploaded the post on social media earlier, about twenty or thirty reporters alongside crazed netizens showed up to demand statements and comments from me. I had Daphne call the police to bring those netizens away, but the reporters have

was not gathered in a strictly off-limits area, the police could not exercise jurisdiction

lifted his chin and muttered thoughtfully, “That explains

couple of netizens who brought wreaths and razor blades for Sonia as some passive-aggressive form of threat. However, when Toby had arrived, he

clueless

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