Cordelia froze. Once she heard Jesse’s voice now, everything in her automatically shifted to fight mode. She looked at him in alert.

Jesse could not help chuckling when he came close and saw her like this. He turned to Annie. “You can go back. Cordelia stays.”

Annie could only leave first, but she kept turning back to check on Cordelia, worried. Everyone knew about Jesse’s ulterior thoughts regarding Cordelia. Was he up to something by retaining her alone?

Annie stopped when she got to the company exit.

Before she and Cordelia went on the business trip together previously, the company regulation stated that each employee had to leave an emergency contact with both the company and their partner. She remembered that Cordelia had saved her husband, Marcus, as the contact.

Annie searched for Marcus’ number from her phone contacts and sent him a text after a moment of hesitation.

Jesse smirked at Cordelia in the office.

“What a capable junior I have.” He looked her up and down. “The company hasn’t been able to score Centrolis’ Bayers for years, but you managed to push the sales proposal in right away! Amazing, amazing!”

Cordelia’s expression was impassive. “Is this why you’ve asked me to stay back?”

“Of course not.” Jesse cleared his throat. “There’s a business dinner tonight. Come along!”

Cordelia looked at him loathingly, but he only grinned with nonchalance.

her with it. Since he could not have

you’re the only pretty one in the

it,” Cordelia rejected coldly. “My husband’s

dinner?” Jesse scoffed. “What? Your

your business whether my husband can take care of himself or not, but if you dare provoke me again, he’ll beat you up, so you

glowered and stopped

Mr. Johnson specifically asked for you. I’m only a messenger. If you

left with a swing of his arm after that, leaving Cordelia

She could only give in even if she was unwilling to attend

the room, she saw a handsome man sitting in the main seat, almost like a

the Bayer Group’s building, but now that she was seeing from such a close distance, Annie was

saw her enter before he felt chills down his spine. When he came in just now, Michael and Jesse hurried to

in a cold breath and

nodded. “I’m Cordelia

Josiah nodded

inwardly. It seemed that no matter how successful a man was, he would barely pass up on a beautiful

stop standing there!” Michael gave her

she was about to pour him wine, the latter anxiously stopped her.

men

awkwardly while fat droplets of sweat dotted his forehead, and

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