Sentenced to Marriage by MadlainQ

Finding the new board

The whole next week turned out to be completely hectic. The scene with the reporters who had enthusiastically greeted us at the entrance was like an introduction to everything that happened later. Three assistants were specially appointed only to answer the calls from the reporters asking for an interview or a comment Aren and I agreed to do two interviews, and both of them were scheduled for the week to come, but that, of course, didn’t stop the rest of the press from bothering us each time we decided to walk out on the street.

The attention that our relationship gathered had a huge positive impact on the company’s value, completely overshadowing the fact that Lan Diamond Corporation had gotten rid of three major executives in one day. Nonetheless, everyone knew that the company had dodged the bullet, and that kind of luck would never come twice. To avoid a similar situation happening in the future, the recruitment of the new executives was preceded by extremely careful, and not entirely legal research. I let Alan and Norton have fun gathering all sorts of information on our candidates. That allowed us to cut two perverts and one drug addict from our head hunter’s list before any interviews began.

Eventually, the group of candidates was narrowed to two, competing for the same position in the company. They all came for the interview from different corners of the world, looking forward to working for Aren Lan. It was clear that it was my husband who had to make the final decision, and yet, he insisted that I be present at all interviews. I couldn’t understand why it was so important to him, but I agreed. Finally, three people were talking with the candidates: Aren, Chris, and I.

“Does my wife’s presence bother you, Mr. Thomson?” Aren asked the first candidate for the Chief Operating Officer, who constantly avoided my gaze. “Not at all,” he said with a forced smile. “I only don’t understand why she is here.” His interview started less than five minutes ago, and that guy had already managed to make my temple vein throb. He had an outstanding resume, which was probably the reason why his words overflowed with arrogance. I had no right to question his project management abilities,

sending his superior vibes toward me made me want to strangle him. Nevertheless, I forced myself to keep my professional indifference and ignore it. Aren decided otherwise.

“Mrs. Lan is here to test your capabilities, Mr. Thomson. If I were you, I would change my attitude unless you don’t value your chance to work for Lan Diamond Corporation,” he said curtly

Mr. Thomson leaned forward in his seat, obviously missing the threat in Aren’s previous words. “Can I be honest, Mr. Lan? I would rather talk with people who understand what I am talking about.” He chuckled before glancing at me. “No offense.”

My lips slowly stretched into a thin smile; my eyes were unable to hide my inner fury. I glared at him while my fists clenched to the point my knuckles turned white.

“Honey?” Aren gently covered my fist with his hand, as if he was trying to disarm my rage. Well… It helped a bit.

curving my

chuckled evilly. “Of

it with the resume he had given us. “Have you ever run a

seat, giving me a cocky look.

“Have you ever

value of my words. “Yes. I was supervising the development of a drone’s processor about

checked that the app you mentioned was managed by someone else, and you weren’t even on the team. Also, the drone’s processor you put in your resume has never appeared on the market because the whole

Thomas glanced at me fearfully, cold sweat flooding

If you apologize to Mrs. Lan now, you may

before me and beg for forgiveness. I had to

sorry for disrespecting you, Mrs. Lan,” Mr. Thomas mumbled, before running out

be so entertaining!” Then he winked at me. “It’s good that Cora found that he lied in his

was aware that he might have added a few false details to make himself look better. Nonetheless, I was willing to ignore it if he proved to be worth it. Unfortunately, he failed three seconds after he

his eyebrows. “Really? He didn’t even introduce himself

looked Cora up and down and clicked his tongue. That

glanced at him in disbelief. “So, you are going to hire people based on their reaction to