Drunk and Daring I Kissed a Tycoon

Drunk And Daring I Kissed A Tycoon! 52

Chapter 52

Vespera's expression shifted slightly. Suppressing her growing frustration, she kept her composure and asked, "Why did he lock the door? Does my question..."

She paused,

plancing mound the room. "Require confidentiality?

Derek quickly forced a laugh. "No, no, Ms. Gildon, please don't misunderstand. Mr. Westwood didn't mean anything by it. It's just... well, this isn't something we typically discuss

openly"

"So there's note to this story?

"Indeed, Ms. Gilden. You may not be aware, but the names you mentioned belong to a married couple-some of the factory's earliest employees. Unfortunately, they were injured in a workplace accident and became permanently disabled, no longer able to work

"To mold any further issues, we reached an agreement with them and provided financialcompensation Interestingly, though, the couple had one condition-they wanted to pemain on the payroll and continue receiving salaries for 15 years, even though they were no longer working."

An elaborate story indeed.

this arrangement been

information. She played along, furrowing

of factory workers. If this

lump sum or installments, in the end, it doesn't make much difference." "Mr. Chavez, I can understand on a personal level. But professionally? This completely disregards company regulations and procedures," Vespera replied. She continued, "And look at the result-because of how this was handled, employees are now convinced the factory is haunted. That's hardly ideal, wouldn't you agree? “Yes, yes, we know it's not by the book. That's exactly why we wanted to discuss it with you, Ms. Gildon. We were hoping you'd be willing to overlook it, just this once. “at's such a minor issue-there's really no need to trouble Mr. Reid with it. He's got a whole corporation to run, and it would be inconsiderate to burden him with

silence linger, pretending to give his

disabled couple myself and verify their situation. If everything checks out, I'll let it go." Derek hesitated, momentarily caught

the summit was over, and Dominic attended a

event organizers.

the hotel around 8:00 pm. With a video conterence scheduled later, he planned to take a brief

anxious. "Vespera still hasn't

before he opened his laptop. "You haven't

anything came up, but she hasn't. I thought she was already

factory. Find out where

made the call, but when he hung up,

Even if

He quickly canceled the evening's video conference and instructed Blake Green,

same time, he ordered the factory staff to retrieve the surveillance footage and