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.

sipped on his iced coffee as he 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

the inhumane punishment, thinking of the bigger

Federal Bureau of Investigation, I’ll be sure to

Cedrick glanced at the man from time to time while working on the

look in Craig’s eyes.

me

my superior, so I will obey your every command and give

call him out on his lie. “You’re a subordinate, so you should learn to behave like one. It’s not a good thing to be too full of yourself. You have a bright future ahead of

on Jennifer and submit to Gwendolyn and

“You’re right, Mr.

he retrieved a timer from his drawer and placed it in a spot where Craig could see

his gaze, he saw that the

a minute… That means the past twenty minutes didn’t count! This

hundred pushups,

breathing and clenched his teeth in an effort to maintain

if even a single one of those books fell, and the mere whisper of such an incident would tarnish his reputation significantly. This, in turn, would have a detrimental effect on

could follow, Craig absolutely could not

him, but he kept

of the books, and his legs were starting to tremble uncontrollably. Craig was sweating so much that he looked as though he had just taken a shower.

got so quiet that one could clearly hear the sound of Craig’s sweat hitting the

only five minutes left on the timer. Craig forced himself to

timer was stuck at two minutes and

and blinked a few times, but the digits on

What’s going on here?

on his work

to him, but Cedrick

documents.

for a few more minutes, Craig was

the timer might

probably wasn’t doing a good job at keeping

since I last saw Cedrick torment someone. I can’t believe he’s still as ruthless

trembling from fatigue, but he

case, go ahead and hand in your resignation. You can go back to the safety and comfort of your house after leaving