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?”

object, his mouth all puckered up not wanting to

this was a job for a junior assistant,

one who’s not in a hurry to leave? Then

down the stack of resumes. “I’m off then, Mr. Crawley, you go on

resumes and then at Brandon. “Mr. Crawley, are you really picking someone from there

was the same

too looked at Brandon. “Yeah, the new company has just started, and besides the Zenithan-style resort project, there are no other projects. I can cover the design director position for now; we don’t have to rush to find someone.

looked at him. “How long can you cover? If she

Don was stumped.

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

start construction based on her plan?”

no plan.”

help but exchange a look

a helpless look on

“You guys head out first.”

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

yanked Don out of

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

had called him to report her safe arrival in Wye City the day she returned, but

any desire

Brandon didn’t ask.

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

it coming, when the moment actually arrived,

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

if the disappointment accumulated over two years outweighed this affection, making her prefer to start anew far from his world rather than getting entangled

do just fine on her own.

accept this

her own than when she was

need to care about whether another person was happy or troubled by their mood swings, didn’t have to accommodate or please anyone, and most importantly, didn’t have to compromise herself.

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

back to the past, and

couldn’t let go

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