Chapter 140

Don got blocked.

“No way, aren’t you guys married?” He just didn’t get it. “I’m the boss here, and she’s just an employee. I was even bummed when she resigned. You guys were husband and wife for crying out loud, how can you be more chill about it than me?”

“Would Mr. Crawley happily sign those divorce papers if he wasn’t that chill?” Kent chimed in, with a bit of a teasing tone, and couldn’t resist sneaking a peek at Brandon.

When it was time to clock out, with Don beefing up his courage, he had no problem ribbing Brandon.

After he finished, Brandon just gave him a cool glance. “You got a problem with that?”

Kent quickly shook his head. “Nope. Just stating the facts.”

Brandon grabbed a stack of documents from the table and tossed them to Kent. “Since you’ve got so much free time, get these sorted. Summarize everyone’s strengths, weaknesses, and design philosophies, and hand it to me before work tomorrow.”

Kent picked it up and saw it was a thick pile of resumes for candidates for the design director position at Star Dempsey Architects, each accompanied by detailed introductions and design portfolios.

There were in-house recommendations from the head office and external candidates as well-quite a few of them.

To summarize their work styles, strengths, weaknesses, and design philosophies, he’d have to dive deep into each person’s work before he could even start analyzing and summarizing, not to mention background checks and scouring the web to understand their past styles.

This was an all-nighter job.

Kent was speechless.

“Mr. Crawley, there’s no way I can finish this in one night.” Kent tried to reason with Brandon, “I can’t be making HR calls for background checks in the middle of the night, can I?”

“Isn’t it not even midnight yet?”

Kent fell silent.

Brandon glanced at the time on his computer. “It’s eight o’clock. You still have two hours before break time. Hustle a bit, and you’ll have enough time for calls.”

Don gave Kent a sympathetic pat on the shoulder. “Less heart-stabbing words next time, huh? See, karma’s already here.”

“This is straight-up revenge.”

Brandon gave him another indifferent look. “Yeah, got a problem?”

his mouth all puckered up not wanting to do overtime. “Boss, work’s over, and this isn’t exactly urgent.”

important thing was, this was a job for a junior assistant, having him on

who’s not in a hurry to leave? Then help your assistant out with some of

in a hurry, super in a hurry,” Kent said as he put down the stack of

hesitated at the door, glancing back at the stack of resumes and then at Brandon. “Mr.

was the same as

I can cover the design director position for now; we don’t have to rush to find someone. Maybe Sophia got held

can you cover? If she never comes, will

Don was stumped.

résort project, the start date is already set. If she doesn’t

start construction based on her

no plan.”

help but exchange a

had a helpless look on

“You guys head

Don gave him another look, wanting to say more, but Kent already stepped forward to pull him. “We’ll leave now. Mr. Dempsey still has a ton

out of the office.

gaze lingered on the stack of design director candidate profiles on the table, then he looked away.

safe arrival in Wye City the day

any desire to continue the project.

Brandon didn’t

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the opening date approached and there was still no word from Sophia, the likelihood of

he saw it coming, when the moment actually arrived, Brandon couldn’t help but feel a

or having no further ties with him, Sophia

or if the disappointment accumulated over two years outweighed this affection, making

could do just fine on

accept

doing much better on her own than when she

fewer expectations, fewer hassles. She wouldn’t need to care about whether another person was happy or troubled by their mood swings, didn’t

chasing dreams and distant horizons, she

didn’t want to go back to the

let go was always himself.

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