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Chapter 97

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Ethan's POV

“Congratulations once more on the achievement." One of the board members said with a straight face.

"Thank you.” I replied, also in a professional tone.

I resisted the urge to yell at them all to just stop with the fake greetings and all.

They should just eat the f*cking food they came here for and leave. The head of public relations department thought it would be a nice idea to have the lunch to push out the company to the media once more.

It's not like this would be my first achievement, this one just needs to be made known to the public.

“Let's start." I ordered and the cooks brought out foods. The media man brought for this one has started taking pictures.

The idea of Annelise coming isn't known by any other person except for her. Speaking of which, she should be here by now.

Everyone was served food and they all dug in after making a toast.

We were just one minute into eating when the door was pushed open. Max came in with Annelise behind him. She looked around the r
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