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Honing the Incompetent
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2024-10-29 19:42:56She was lucky. Andrea didn’t know how lucky that cursed woman could be. Perhaps, the only one stuck in a perpetual pit of misfortune was Andrea. The owner of VNVS stood next to the glass wall behind her desk in her office. It was covered by a long black starry curtain, but she was leaning at the frame and staring out at the moment.
Just earlier, she heard that Mr. Roberts pinned everything on Mathias, absolving everyone else in his office and the people that were supposed to be pulling it off with him. That was why Melody got away scot-free, even if evidence dictated her participation in embezzling millions from Monarch. It even seemed that the police didn’t pursue her as well.
Only Mathias was going to prison for a few years. Hopefully, he would die there. Else, his return would be another nightmare. It’s just that Andrea looked at her own ca
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