Chapter 196

"Be gentle, Edward. How am I going to face Easton if you're rough with me?"

Lucy and Edward exchanged a few words, and before they knew it, there was a pile of clothes and shoes on the ground.

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Elsewhere, at the Shanahan Corporation, Stanley felt extremely upset after being demoted.

Previously, he had the luxury of doing whatever he wanted when there was no work to do. He tended to enjoy himself outside of the company and was rarely in since he had told the company employees to call him in the event that something required his immediate attention.

However, things had since changed because he had been removed from his position as general manager and demoted to being a manager of a department. Furthermore, it was Diane—the one person he hated most—who had taken over his duties as general manager. If she found out that he had snuck out to enjoy him, she would probably give him an earful again.

"Tch, it irks me that someone like her was given such a powerful position!" Stanley lamen