Chapter 8

"No, sir. Please forgive me. I was framed, I was loyal to you all along, sir." A man was kneeling right in front of Edward.

Edward sat with his feet on a swivel chair. Several men and confidants stood beside him. Witnessing how someone in a desperate situation, could only plead with the man.

"Jack, tell me what evidence of treason this man has committed," Edward ordered one of his subordinates, while smoking the cigarette tucked between his fingers.

The man named Jack, smiled. He didn't even need a note to tell the cunning of one of Edward's men who had been caught red-handed.

"Of course. Mr. Gery has been embezzling employee salaries for the past three years, adding unspecified financing to several projects, falsifying financial data, harassing female employees in the office, as well as selling various important secrets of the Atlanta company to other competing companies," said the man named Jack loudly.

The man named Gery was still kneeling with a feeling of anxiety and was so surpr