When There Is Nothing Left But Love

He got up from his seat and walked closer to me. “Did Nora make this?”

I was surprised at his guess. “How did you guess?”

He laughed. “You don’t have many friends here, let alone friends free enough to bring lunch for you. So naturally, I guess it’s Nora.”

That makes a lot of sense.

I began laying out the utensils and passed him the gastric medication. “Here you go. Remember to take this if you have gastric pain.”

He looked at the medicine before turning his gaze toward me. “Did you ask Nora to pick this up?”

I nodded. “Something like that.”

He took the lunchbox from me and paused for a moment before asking, “Did you see Ashton last night?”

I was taken aback by his question. I’m going to get whiplash from the way his mind works.

before launching into a monologue. “Fuller Corporation is planning a project in A City. Technically speaking, Ashton doesn’t need to be in A City for it, but

nodded, not

at my continued silence. “Since Fuller Corporation isn’t a local business, they’re planning to hold a public tender for the project tonight at Oasis Hotel. Murphy Corporation is planning to bid

before finally speaking, “You can just let me

began to form on his face. “I’m putting you in

“I’ve just joined the company not long ago, as your secretary. My job is to take care of your odd jobs and organize your documents. Following up with Fuller Corporation is a job more suited to a project director. Even if you insist on putting me in charge, you need to consider my capabilities. Do

up to the Director position from the lowest rung of the corporate ladder. Isn’t that proof enough of your capabilities? A position is an abstract thing, and it doesn’t dictate whether a secretary can handle the

knitted my brows. Is he trying to hard-sell

chances of success are a lot higher. I’m not above

he had in mind. He’s definitely trying to gain some leverage by using my relationship

want to go, though I didn’t say

if you don’t want to. You’ll just lose your twenty percent commission on the project, that’s

blurted, “Twenty

a twenty percent commission for all successful bids.

distributions for successful bids, but supervisors typically got a five percent cut. Even