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Lust or love?

Author: Debbierlea
last update Last Updated: 2023-07-22 12:30:17

Roman's POV

"Here you go, sir. These are the minutes of the last meeting with H and R technology, sir." Nathan explained, placing a pile of paperwork on the conference desk.

I nodded, "Alright. When will they get here by the way? It's almost thirty minutes past the stipulated time of the meeting, haven't they heard about punctuality or do they think I have nothing else to do with my time?" I gruffed, reaching for a piece of paperwork to skim through pending the time the people I was scheduled to meet with decided to arrive.

I was already beyond pissed that I had wasted thirty minutes of my precious time waiting for an incompetent company.

If it wasn't because of Nana who had begged me to consider them because the Herreras were longtime friends of hers, and also business partners with GV group of companies when she was still president, I wouldn't have bothered to show up to the convergence.

After the patriarch and founder of the company died some years ago, the company went from grace
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