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Chapter 71: The Chairman Is Sick
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2024-10-29 19:42:56As early as a bird, Mr. Stephen Alejandro opened his eyes with a smile on his slim chapped lips. His hands crawled to the table beside his bed to reach for his reading glasses. In the process, his whole body started shivering, like that if a convulsing child.
Confused about the reaction of his body, the cylindrical shaped glasses dropped from his hand hand shattered in it's own frame.
The Chairman's eyebrows raised together as his mouth suddenly went slack, exposing his teeth in shock to the reaction of his body. Lines of vertical wrinkles formed between his eyebrows and gritted in pain.
Suddenly, as if the oxygen in the room was chocking him up. That moment, Mr. Stephen felt five fingers cutting through his throat, trying to reach for his soul. He quickly held his chest as he struggled to breath. Wanting to touch the small alarm bell he uses to call the maid, his body fell to the other side of the bed, as he struggled to catch his breath.
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