Too late for a second chance (Lila and Dorian)

Chapter 143

Billy's eyelid twitched even more intensely.

He awkwardly glanced at Dorian, sitting silently beside him.

Lila let out a quick laugh. "Mr. Johnson, think carefully. If I don't leave, even if I do nothing, the company still has to pay me a large sum every year.

"Now I think about it, getting paid to do nothing isn't so bad."

Dorian's eyes were cold, and his face had a sarcastic look. "You might live the high life, but have you considered how the company will deal with your two underlings?"

She nodded, leaned on the desk with her arms crossed, and stayed quiet, deep in thought.

Dorian watched her, and the mockery in his eyes grew more evident.

Lila's loyalty was one of her strengths, but also her weakness.

Dorian couldn't think of a way to force Lila out if it weren't for those two troublesome newcomers.

Lila thought briefly, her eyes down. Not long after, she looked up with a gentle smile as if everything had become clear to her.

"Jamie and Teddy are the company's artists. Dealing with them later is just a matter of arranging some unpleasant tasks.

"They can simply refuse to do them, and the end result would be to have them frozen out and blacklisted."

looked at

showing no sign of

as calm as usual. "The company pays me two million a year.

ordinary people might never have the chance to

us with the money, it doesn't seem

taking on projects from other companies. If I'm lucky, maybe I can land a TV series

the company decides to blacklist them, the money I make would be enough for us. We're already in the best situation if

need to leave the company. Don't you think so,

at Dorian, and he immediately realized that she had figured out that

almost made

from what he had expected. Lila did care about those two newcomers, but how could the ambitious Lila say something like

on Lila as

confused and

what Lila said

of getting money without

to stay silent so that if things went south, he wouldn't

them spoke, Lila straightened her back, adjusted

there's nothing else, I'll

to walk out, looking as though she had accepted the outcome of her earlier

hand reached for the door handle, Dorian spoke up as she had anticipated. "Lila, the company has agreed to your request to release the two

smile neither fully warm nor cold. "No scenes can be deliberately cut for the TV series they're filming. They must be allowed to air