Chapter 64

Curtis lifted an eyebrow, “What’s the point of going home?”

Caleb choked for a moment. That was indeed a good question.

He shifted the conversation, “Look, we’ve all been running on fumes lately, tagging along with your marathon meetings. You’re full of beans, but the rest of us are burning the midnight oil to the point of going bald. We have thirty-year-old souls with the health of octogenarians. If someone drops dead from exhaustion, that’s gonna cost a pretty penny.”

All of Caleb’s smooth talk was learned from Curtis. Using it in front of the man himself felt like bringing a knife to a gunfight.

Curtis scoffed, “Do you think I can’t pick up the tab?”

That wasn’t exactly the point.

The secretary wasn’t wrong. Ever since Curtis got back from his trip, he’d been more demanding by the day. Caleb, having been by his side for years, had a knack for gauging his thoughts.

Caleb repeated to himself like a mantra, “For the sake of ElitePinnacle.”

Then, with a sense of resigned courage, he asked, “Mr. Richardson, are you afraid of confronting your wife?”

The sound of shattering in the CEO’s office sent a chill down the spines of the secretaries.

outside.

“It’s over. Caleb’s done for… Oh dear!”

Soon after th

open, and Caleb

The

hist

swarmed him with concern, “Caleb,

a coffee

out a sigh of relief, Caleb announced, “Let the

everyone’s been putting in a lot

them to go

cleared out before the end of the day. en Curtis finally emerged from his office, he found no

faster than rabbits,” Curtis grumbled upon seeing Caleb, “You too.”

catching a nasty cold the day before, so Curtis found himself driving alone on the snowy streets, feeling an unexpected sense

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the car around and headed back to Crystal

as spring with the heating on but felt eerily empty.

calling out,

his voice went

echo nearly answered him

on the couch, he made a beeline for the master bedroom upstairs. Seeing Leanne’s

back downstairs, he heard a

when the cats squeezed out, followed by a

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