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Chapter 28 Swayed

Author: BELLA
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When I reached my company the following day, my secretary came into my office with some reports and a contract.

" Hello, Sir!" He greeted me before saying, " Here's today's schedule." He handed me the documents alongside the contract.

" What's this?" I asked, confused. I should have known what it was that was handed to me but as of recently, I wasn't paying that much attention to work as my focus wasn't there.

The secretary looked at me and said in quite a serious tone. " You need to get your act together, Sir!" " This is the contract offer for the design company that contacted us for cooperation, remember?" As he said that, I seemed to remember something like that happening a few days ago.

" Was there anything else you needed to tell me?" I asked as he wasn’t leaving my office even after handling everything he needed to give me. " Well, the thing is, Ms. Tina is here and she's been waiting for you for a while now."

" Tina's here?" I was a bit surprised to learn of this. Could she hav
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