34. HANDS TIED

Tom knew it was a set-up. Immediately, he saw Joseph cut in when Dave was talking, although he was not sure if Dave was part of the plan, but one thing was sure, Joseph had a hand in this mess he had found himself. The crazy aspect was that there is no way to prove it was ruined by someone and provide evidence. He was going crazy at every tick of the clock.

“I think you should calm down, Mr. Dave Lin and let’s cool down to solve this”, he pleaded, but Dave would not have it. He was scarily furious, and his French accent took over. The more he was pleaded to, the more he was getting angrier and seeing this, Tom concluded that it would be best to reschedule a meeting instead of wasting all day pleading with him and calm him down on camera. He succeeded in calming him down at some point and told him, “Mr. Dave Lin, I promise you that we will sort this out, so let’s have a talk tomorrow instead of fighting like this”, making him cool down a bit.

“Even if we have a meeting tomorrow, do no