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2024-10-29 19:42:56CHAPTER 35
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Luca steps into the boardroom and looks around, the tensed silence in the room is obvious, everyone is seated, Emberlynn included, he wonder what she is doing there, normally only executives were allowed into the meeting, among them they had a secretary who took the minutes, it was a known fact from when he was William’s PA but now she was seated at the opposite end of the table, opposite her dad, she looked to be in a better mood.
Luca moves to go sit in the only empty seat on the table, in between two executives, one was in charge of the Accounting department of the company and the other was the man in marketing, he hadn’t been even given a unit to head he realized and worse there was no open position, this position was created, he was really getting worried on what might come out of this promotion.
He rose his head and smiled at the two men on his side, not knowing before his entrance, a few of the executives had been g
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