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.

to his desk and 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 off, or you’ll be suspended

the inhumane punishment, thinking

Federal Bureau of Investigation, I’ll be sure

time to time while working on the computer, he

look in Craig’s eyes.

hate me

gaze as he replied, “No, sir. You’re my superior, so I will obey your every command and give you my

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

asking me to give up on Jennifer and submit to Gwendolyn and

along with it and replied. “You’re right, Mr. Jenson. I will

he retrieved a timer from his drawer

lowered his gaze, he saw that the timer was counting down

past twenty minutes didn’t count! This guy

arms were somewhat fatigued from doing five hundred pushups, they were trembling slightly from the extra

his breathing and clenched his

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

of the dire consequences that could follow, Craig absolutely could

him, but he kept his

from the weight 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. The puddle of sweat beneath him continued to expand in size

quiet that one could clearly hear the sound

left on the timer. Craig forced himself to stay alert as he

timer was stuck at

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

going on

his work

to him, but Cedrick ignored him completely and

documents.

a few more minutes, Craig was starting to feel

timer might be broken,” he

even looking at the timer, “The timer probably wasn’t doing a good job at keeping time, then. I’ll get

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

arms and legs were trembling from

his eyes, Cedrick asked with a sarcastic grin, “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