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.

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 intending

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

in surprise before finally speaking, “You can just

chuckled at my words as a bright smile began to form on his face. “I’m putting you in

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

his hands. With a serious expression, he said, “You’ve worked at Fuller Corporation for years, making your way 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

knitted my brows. Is he trying to hard-sell me

we send you to bid for the project, our chances of success are a lot higher. I’m not above playing some

definitely trying to gain

want to go, though I didn’t

going to force you if you don’t want to. You’ll

blurted,

“Supervisors in charge are entitled to a twenty percent commission for all successful bids. This policy has been around since Murphy Corporation was

of commission distributions for successful bids, but supervisors typically got a five percent