Chapter 56

Cordy took a deep breath.

She had always kept business and pleasure separate.

Looking down at the message notification popping on her phone, she decided to ignore it.

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John was sitting in the executive office of the Levine Ventures branch over at Rocktown.

He scowled at his phone, which was not jingling at all.

Randy Martin was standing beside him, too afraid to even say a word.

It was not as if things were bad—in fact, the sudden inspection to the branch here revealed that every operation and project was showing more than satisfactory performance.

Even so, his boss was glowering with bloodlust.

"Randy."

"Sir?"

"Book the earliest flight tomorrow. We're going back to North City."

"Don't we have an appointment with that key figure in this city?" Randy pointed out—since they were here for the inspection, they had set up meetings with any clients or potential partners as well.

"We'll leave in the evening," John said, correcting himself.

But he was going back tomorrow one w