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?”

wanting to do overtime. “Boss, work’s over, and this isn’t exactly

was a job for a junior assistant, having him on it

not in a hurry to leave? Then

super in a hurry,” Kent said as he put down the stack of resumes. “I’m off then, Mr. Crawley, you go

turned to leave, but hesitated at the door, glancing back at the stack of resumes and then at Brandon. “Mr. Crawley, are you really picking someone from there to replace Ms.

was the same as

other projects. I can cover the design director position for now; we don’t have to rush to find

him. “How long can you cover? If she never comes, will you cover forever?”

Don was stumped.

already set. If she doesn’t show, do we

start construction based

no plan.”

help but exchange a look with

had a helpless look on his face.

“You guys head out

to pull him. “We’ll leave now. Mr. Dempsey still has a ton of work

yanked Don out of the

door close, his gaze lingered on the stack of design director candidate profiles

her safe arrival in Wye City the day

desire to continue the project.

Brandon didn’t

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gave her time to think it over, but as the opening date approached and there was still no word from Sophia, the likelihood

he saw it coming, when the moment actually arrived,

was leaving or having no further ties with him, Sophia had always been decisive and

her liking wasn’t deep enough, or if the disappointment accumulated over two years outweighed this affection, making her prefer to start anew

do just fine on

accept this

fact, she was probably doing much better on her own than when

or without him. But without him, she could have fewer expectations, fewer hassles. She wouldn’t need to care about whether

settling for less or chasing dreams and distant horizons, she didn’t need to accommodate anyone. It was all about what

freedom, she didn’t want to go back to

one who couldn’t let

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