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104. HANS KRITZ
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2024-10-29 19:42:56"You... how can you say that?" Jeremy looked taken aback after receiving a question from Steen that might have been unexpected for him.
The younger man did look surprised, but Steen remained calm as he straightened up and stopped folding his arms over his chest. "I'm not stupid," he replied. “That bastard Hans Kritz has been putting me on his enemy list years ago, and he must want to stab me in the back. Only I was too blind to see the possibility when you suddenly came to me saying that bastard had fired you for no reason.”Hans Kritz. He was the founder and current president of N-HANS. The man was Steen's senior when he was an undergraduate student at a business school abroad, and as if the two of them were bound by fate, they became senior and junior again as Steen continued his studies for his master's degree.For some reason, the man who was only a year older than him always looked at him with hatred in his eyes. Actually, Steen knew the reason. HaRelated chapters
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"SHUT UP! DON'T TALK NONSENSE IN MY HOUSE!" Kate immediately shouted at Peter, but even her voice sounded unsteady as she looked nervous as hell. Her voice was shaking, her pupils were trembling, and even her breathing was ragged. All eyes suddenly fell on the blonde woman, and it was finally Stefan who opened his mouth to respond to the woman, "Are you sure what he said was just nonsense?" Stefan also looked surprised after hearing what Peter had just said, but he still had time to ask the woman that question. At this moment, the woman no longer glared at the kneeling man, and instead, she stiffly shifted her gaze to Stefan. Stefan was her husband, and he was known for his strict and assertive personality. Many people were afraid of him, even Kate was afraid of him before they got married years ago. But today she somehow looked scared again when she had to face the old man even if the man was her spouse. “D-don't listen to what that
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It was Marlon who had just entered the mansion, but this time he was not alone. His hand was holding another person's arm, and that person's hands were tied with a rope behind his back. After arriving at the living room, Marlon forced the person to kneel in front of the five people. One person looked confident after seeing the person's appearance in the living room, while three other people looked shocked and confused, then one person looked scared as her eyes widened when she saw the person who had just arrived in the living room with Marlon. "So, he's the person, Marlon?" It was Steen who looked confident upon seeing the person's arrival in the living room, and although his question was directed at Marlon, his eyes were glued to the figure kneeling in front of him. “Yes, sir,” Marlon immediately answered his boss's question. “His name is Peter Ford, and he works in a bar in town. He's the one who posted that anonymous article about you, sir.”
