Chapter 1540

Xora was too stunned for words. She merely stood there, utterly baffled, as she clutched her rapidly swelling cheek.

Even Ivar seemed to have the wind knocked out of him. He never thought Liam would actually hit someone, without any fear of consequences.

However, the searing pain in her cheek seemed to instill some sense into Xora, and the next moment, she snapped out of her stupor to glare at Liam, seething. "Liam! How dare you hit me? How dare you hit me in front of Mr. Nicoson?"

Ivar, too, had rounded on Liam with a look of white-hot fury. "This is unacceptable! Liam, how dare you attack a member of staff right in front of me? Don't you know that aside from being the director of your department, she's also…"

Liam shrugged and said coolly, cutting him off, "I know! Aside from her position in the company, she's also your mistress!"

Ivar froze, clearly taken aback. The words of his unfinished sentence seemed to have gotten lodged in his throat, and there was nothing he could do