Chapter 548 Madison and I felt like we were in deep trouble. A chill ran down our spines.

"Uh... we..." I stammered, my mind scrambling for a good excuse.

Madison was quicker. She immediately explained, "Sir, you're mistaken. We're the new cleaning staff here. We just got lost."

She pulled out a cleaning ID badge from her pocket.

I felt a wave of relief and quickly jumped in. "Yeah, yeah, we just got lost. That's all."

The guy stared at us in doubt, then took a closer look at our ID badges. After a long pause, he grunted.

"Cleaning staff? This floor is for the CEO's offices. What are you two doing up here?" His tone was getting sharper. "And earlier, you were lurking by the door, spying, weren't you—"

"Enough, let's not make this harder than it needs to be," a man interrupted, his voice calm.

I turned around and was surprised to see Yvan. He'd somehow appeared at the door and was now sizing us up.

"Mr. Jaeger!" The guy greeted him right away, his tone softening. "These two—"

fine," Yvan said with a smile, waving it off. "It's normal for new staff to get lost around here.

and me a nod. "Thanks for all your hard work. If you need

that, he turned and walked

to do. Someone was being this polite to me for the first

are you doing? Come on,

out of it, and I quickly nodded toward Yvan as he walked

guy grunted and mumbled, "Mr.

and kind-hearted. He knows how to

can make people think

it's just

nover.

to

when to

meaningful look. "You two better be careful. There are things you just don't have the pull

and walked away without

"J" engraved on the guy's cufflinks. He had to be

wasn't exactly the type to be that straightforward. His leniency toward me and Madison might not have

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