He got up from his seat and walked closer to me. “Did Nora make this?”

I was surprised at his guess. “How did you guess?”

He laughed. “You don’t have many friends here, let alone friends free enough to bring lunch for you. So naturally, I guess it’s Nora.”

That makes a lot of sense.

I began laying out the utensils and passed him the gastric medication. “Here you go. Remember to take this if you have gastric pain.”

He looked at the medicine before turning his gaze toward me. “Did you ask Nora to pick this up?”

I nodded. “Something like that.”

He took the lunchbox from me and paused for a moment before asking, “Did you see Ashton last night?”

I was taken aback by his question. I’m going to get whiplash from the way his mind works.

bites of his food before launching into a monologue. “Fuller Corporation is planning a project in A City. Technically speaking, Ashton doesn’t need to be in A City for it, but he’s here and it

nodded, not intending

at my continued silence. “Since Fuller Corporation isn’t a local business, they’re planning to hold a public tender for

can just let me know directly what

as a bright smile began to form on his face. “I’m putting you in charge of this

secretary. My job is to take care of your odd jobs and organize your documents. Following up with Fuller Corporation is a job more suited to a project director. Even if you insist on putting me in charge, you need to consider

Corporation for years, making your way up to the Director position from the lowest rung of the corporate ladder. Isn’t that proof enough of your capabilities? A position is an abstract thing, and it doesn’t dictate whether a secretary can handle the tasks of a project director. You can

he trying to hard-sell

“Besides if we send you to bid for the project, our chances of

what he had in mind. He’s definitely trying to gain some leverage by using

want to go, though I didn’t say a

and his gaze softened. “I’m not going to force you if you don’t want to. You’ll just lose your twenty percent commission on the

blurted,

twenty percent commission for all successful bids. This policy has been around since Murphy

for successful bids, but supervisors typically got a five percent cut. Even ten

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255