The executive meeting was held that afternoon itself, and even those who were not around attended through a video conference.Robin first asked everyone the solution to the matter in the meeting, and the replies were either lowering the price to sell the houses or trading the land off with a lower price. The solutions only caused the chairman, Phineas Maple, to glower.If these were what the high-level executives could come up with, why would he need these useless people? For the size of their heads and bellies? Was it all sh*t in there? While Phineas fumed silently, Robin spoke up to introduce Javier.“This is Javier Kersey. I believe everyone here knows him. He used to be the sales exemplar our company has openly promoted and is now the head of the construction company for the East Chinea region, as well as the person-in-charge for the land with the current issue.“Of course, Javier isn’t to be blamed for the land’s issue since no one could know what’s there underneath, so my p
After the executive meeting, Kaiden returned to his company, glowering. Javier had called him a sc*m in front of so many high-level executives, and he was even proven wrong after that. It disgruntled him as he felt like he was embarrassed. If the chairman had not taken Javier’s side, he would have beaten the latter up—that was, if he had the guts.That did not stop Kaiden from fuming inwardly, though, nor did it stop him from kicking his table and chair when he returned to his office.As his secretary, Jayden was fast to appease him. “Mr. Johnstone, what’s the matter? Who angered you? Don’t be mad.”As he coaxed the man, he was slapped, stunning him.“No, wait. Mr. Johnstone, why are you slapping me?”“Why am I slapping you? A slap is already a light one. I want to fire you!”Kaiden snarled, “If it weren’t for you, would Javier have picked on me in front of everyone?“I listened to you and transferred him to East Chinea Construction, making it an open promotion but an implicit d
Javier was a little unreasonably rude and tyrannical recently, almost evil, but he could not help it. The pressure he was under to “level up” was too much, and he needed to vent.The old fox had once told him that he ought to vent suitably when he should, or there would only be a greater evil accumulated from the power and authority he held.Javier’s current capability made it easy for him to instigate a war. That was why he had to vent his frustration and keep himself sane.It was just that luck was not on Jayden’s side. When Javier brazenly wanted to beat him up with one hand, Jayden charged at Javier repeatedly and recklessly. Later, though, he stopped lunging for Javier and hid in a corner obediently.His eyes were swollen from the punches, and he would not be able to see things clearly if he were hit another time!By the time things came to an end, Javier had left the karaoke room directly and seemed to be done with Jayden. Despite that, as Jayden drove away from the same pla
Nelly was Dahlia’s secretary. Her husband had gone to the sea with the commercial fishing boat not too long after they got married. She was a pretty lady with quite a good figure. Otherwise, her husband, a chief officer, would not have been together with her.Despite that, pretty women always had more temptations. Nelly, who had tried her best not to hook up with men aside from her husband, had been feeling lonely recently, especially at night. Yesterday, for example, she had secretly bought female s*x toys from the Internet. Although the delivery had yet to arrive, she was already anticipating it.It came as a shock for her to run into such an intimate scene in the office this afternoon, so she froze on the spot.Dahlia was incredibly embarrassed upon seeing Nelly freeze at the door and struggled to get up to avoid such an embarrassing scandal getting out, but Nelly had reacted faster. Before Dahlia could do anything, she had closed the door and left promptly.Nelly was flustered
Being hugged by a man who was not her husband, and being hugged so tightly at that, made Nelly feel incredibly abashed. She clung onto her last sense of rationale and pushed Javier away from her.“I c-can’t—this can’t happen. We can’t act like this.” Nelly fumbled to speak and even staggered a little as she stepped away, feeling as frantic as her inner turmoil.Javier did not give her another chance to fight back, as he pushed forward and trapped her in the corner.“Nelly, this is the only way to resolve the plight between you and Dahlia. Otherwise, you won’t be able to keep working here. Your coworkers, your career…Everything will end here…”Javier coaxed her like a devil, while Nelly was helplessly shy.Dahlia had only told Javier that her secretary, Nelly, was a career-minded girl and her goal was to become the next Dahlia Robins, as she wanted to establish herself and progress in Maple Court.This was the exact reason Javier used her career against Nelly.As expected, Nelly
“I-I don’t know. It’s probably my best friend’s. I'm staying with my best friend.”Nelly made up a lie about a best friend while she was dying of embarrassment. In fact, she was the only one staying there. There was no best friend.Javier obviously knew as much, so he pointed at the shoe cabinet at the door after tossing the toy aside.“The shoes are all yours, and there’s only one glass at home. It’s enough to prove that you’re staying alone. How is there a best friend? This is obviously you trying to alleviate your loneliness.”Javier was merciless, exposing Nelly’s thoughts directly and embarrassing her to no end. He was still rambling when Nelly snapped.“What do you want? Mr. Kersey, what do you actually want? I’m a woman living alone, and you’re at my place telling me all these things. What the heck do you want?!”Javier chuckled upon seeing that he had successfully forced Nelly into a corner. “Don’t you know what I want?”As he said this, he stepped closer to her.When N
In the following days, other than completing his work-related tasks, Javier spent the rest of his time with Nelly and Dahlia either in his office or in Dahlia’s office.Once, they were even in the ladies’ washroom. Dahlia had realized that they could not keep doing this and tried to break it off, but Javier followed her into the washroom when no one was watching. What happened in the washroom thrilled Dahlia endlessly. It felt almost as if she was a thief, and she would surely never forget it, even reminiscing about it from time to time.However, no matter how attractive this temporary lifestyle was, it was still temporary. When Javier finished his job there, the transfer notice from headquarters came.Like Robin had mentioned, Javier was transferred to Maple Court’s headquarters as Robin’s secretary. Just like Javier had said, Dahlia was promoted to general manager of East Chinea Construction after he left.When he drove off, Dahlia and Nelly both bade him farewell.As they watch
Kaiden was a very courageous man, at least on the surface.“I will never resort to being threatened even if I have to put my finger at risk! Go ahead and break it if you can!”Kaiden could tell that Javier was surely not going to be brave enough to do it. After all, Javier would have to be extremely arrogant to do such a thing to the vice director of Maple Court, which would be a very disrespectful act. Even the chairman had to show him a modicum of respect, in fact! This was why Kaiden was sure that Javier would not be brave enough to do it. Instead, the latter would try finding a way out of the situation. When this happened, Kaiden would counter-attack and ask why Javier was not brave enough to break his finger. Then, he would arrogantly ask where Javier’s bravado had gone when he ended up behaving like a coward. However, just as Kaiden was having all those thoughts, he suddenly heard a loud, crisp “crack”! What was very profound about this sound was that Kaiden could no lo