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Chapter 21
Chapter 21
On another day comes another 24 hours to be productive and self-denigrate oneself with creating a new record of how many stacks of records to be done, meetings to adjourn, conferences to travel and attend and create a new plan for the operational activities and most especially, cater for the upcoming company anniversary celebration. Adler sighed helplessly as he looked at the tightly crumpled layers of paper with a chain of words that connected each other, attached in one single file with the help of a stapler. He couldn't remember what was about, it was either this month's marketing and financial analysis or a copy of the contract he recently made with a client.
He just came back from a tiresome 2-hour drive after finishing an hour's worth of conference that he had to attend early in
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Chapter 22 "Good noon, Executive." "Happy noon, Sir Adler." "Lovely noon isn't it, sir? Lunch?" "Later, maybe," Adler answered and made a small nod with his moniker smile painfully glued on his face as he passed by every employee he encountered. As he passed one department after another, he caught a glimpse of most employees scrambling in their cubicles, organizing their things, and fixing themselves, even the janitor who was already doing a good job mopping the floor was doing it the second time. Unproductive,he thought while grinding his molars, thinking that it'll suffice the stinging of his head while looking at some personnel pretending to be busy in their almost empty cubicle while a few were immersed in their work that they failed to notice him. Looking at them right now, he began to wonder how Morgan could look at him with a straight face, all stoic and unafraid. Maybe because Morgan was
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Chapter 27 "Goddammit,"he swore under his breath as he cannot contain the anger that was making his blood boil. "..." "And do you know what's most striking in this embezzlement report, Morgan?" he asked, and the secretary just politely shook his head. "The previous reports were sloppy that they're obvious. But isn't it strange that only a financial team member found out and reported about this? Can we even trust that guy? He might be the one behind this to pull leverage for himself while throwing shade to the finance head." "He's a recent employee in the company, Sir. I think we can trust this employee as he has already discovered a serious issue while on his first week on the job," Morgan s
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Chapter 29 Adler sighedas he pulled out another pack of his cigarettes from his pocket. He broodingly stared at the view of the city. The lights were already switched on in every building and pavement even though the sun was just setting and the curtains of the night were yet to fall entirely. A window exposed what was going on in one of the buildings in front of where he was standing. An old man with a large, protruding stomach whose face was fierce red and the veins on his neck thickening against his skin as if they'd close to popping. He angrily talked to a younger man who had his hair drooped, his face holding a glum expression. While puffing out a cloud of smoke from his cigar that felt heavy in his lungs, Adler concluded that the former seemed to be lecturing the younger person then brushe
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