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2024-10-29 19:42:56“Hello?” I said when I answered the phone.
“Sir.” I heard the nervous voice of Nina, my assistant “Mr. Kristopolis is right in front of me asking for you.”
“Nina.” sighed when I walked into my apartment “Do what I asked you to do, cancel all my appointments for the rest of the week and...”
I heard a Give me that fucking phone! And then several fighting sounds.
“Mark!” Kristos barked in my ear “Where the fuck are you?”
“At home.”
“We have a meeting in twenty minutes with the publisher that asked us for the loan for the new branch.”
“Kristos.” I started saying while packing “I told Nina to let you know that I was going on a trip.”
“You're not goin
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