The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

Chapter 478 The Torment Continues

Craig went pale and clenched his jaw slightly.

He was fairly exhausted after completing over five hundred pushups in a row, and there were over four hours left until he would get off work.

Just how much does Cedrick plan on abusing me?

Cedrick smirked when he saw the nervous look in Craig’s eyes. “Spread your legs about shoulder width apart and hold a squat position for an hour!” he ordered coldly.

That’s it? I just have to hold a squat position?

“Yes, sir.”

Craig breathed a sigh of relief and quickly got into a squat position with perfect form.

He was sweating profusely from the hot air blowing at him, but he maintained his position and controlled his breathing while counting the time.

Cedrick simply stared at him for a while without saying a word. He then made his way to the bookshelf behind Craig.

As Craig didn’t dare turn around, he couldn’t see what Cedrick was doing. All he heard was the clomp of Cedrick’s military boots that grew distant before getting closer and closer.

The next thing Craig knew, Cedrick had returned to his desk with a huge stack of books.

Oh, no… I have a bad feeling about this…

Sure enough, Cedrick proceeded to arrange the books into two separate stacks and placed them on top of Craig’s thighs

In order to prevent the book from falling off, Craig had no choice but to lower his squat by a couple of inches.

When Cedrick saw that Craig was handling it rather well, he prepared another two stacks of books and walked up to the latter once again.

“Hold your arms out with the palms facing upward,” he ordered.

Craig complied with the order, and Cedrick placed a stack of books in each hand.

Despite how agonizing it was, Craig simply clenched his teeth and endured it in silence.

said, “If you can’t even last an hour, then you can forget about being the deputy director. Do not let any of the books fall off,

breath and forced himself to endure the inhumane

the Federal Bureau of Investigation,

from time to time while working on

look in Craig’s eyes.

me to the bone,

“No, sir. You’re my superior, so I will obey your every command and give

his lie. “You’re a subordinate, so you should learn to behave like one. It’s not a good

me to give up on Jennifer

replied. “You’re right, Mr. Jenson. I will follow protocol and

timer from his drawer and placed it in a

he saw that the timer

minute… That means the past twenty minutes didn’t count! This guy sure knows how to torment

somewhat fatigued from doing five hundred pushups, they were trembling

his breathing and clenched his teeth in an

of those books fell, and the mere whisper of such an incident would tarnish his reputation

of the dire consequences that could follow,

year to him, but

legs were starting to tremble uncontrollably. Craig was sweating so much that he looked as though he had just taken a shower. The puddle of sweat beneath him continued to expand in size as time

continued working on his documents, the office got so quiet that one could clearly hear the sound of Craig’s sweat

on the timer. Craig forced himself to stay

at two minutes and fifty–nine

him, he closed his eyes and blinked a few times, but the digits on the timer remained the

going on here?

so focused on his work that he didn’t even

Jenson?” Craig called out to him, but Cedrick ignored him completely and continued working

documents.

holding on for a few more minutes, Craig was starting to feel mental

Jenson, the timer might

as he continued without even looking at the timer, “The timer probably wasn’t doing a good job at keeping time, then. I’ll get a new

been so long since I last saw Cedrick torment someone. I can’t believe

from fatigue, but he

“What’s the matter? You can’t take it anymore? In that case, go ahead and hand in your resignation. You can go back to the safety and comfort