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

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

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

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. Crawley, are you really picking someone from there to replace

was the same as Don’s.

Brandon. “Yeah, the new company has just started, and besides the Zenithan-style resort project, there are no other projects. I can cover the

looked at him. “How long can you cover?

Don was stumped.

about the Zenithan-style résort project, the start date is already set. If she doesn’t show, do

“Then why not start construction based on

person, no plan.”

couldn’t help but exchange a look with

look on his face.

“You guys head out

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

out of

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

in Wye City the day she

desire to continue the

Brandon didn’t

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date approached and there was still no word from Sophia, the likelihood of her giving up

moment actually arrived,

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

Sophia saying, “Brandon, I liked you.” He didn’t know if her liking wasn’t deep enough, or if the disappointment accumulated over two years outweighed

just fine on her own.

accept this

much better on her own than when

of their divorce, life felt the same with or without him. But without him, she could have fewer expectations, fewer hassles. She wouldn’t need to care about whether another person was

distant horizons, she didn’t need to accommodate anyone. It was all about what she

such freedom, she didn’t want to go back to the

who couldn’t let

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