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.

in A City. Technically speaking, Ashton doesn’t need to be in A City for it, but he’s

not

to hold a public tender for the project tonight at Oasis Hotel.

“You can just let me know directly what you need

began to form on his face. “I’m putting

at him in confusion. “I’ve just joined the company not long ago, as your secretary. My job is to take care of your odd jobs and organize your documents. Following up with Fuller Corporation

he said, “You’ve worked at Fuller 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 ask Linda yourself. She’s always been an executive assistant since she first joined the

knitted my brows. Is he trying to

bid for the project, our chances of success are a lot higher. I’m not above playing some dirty

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

go, though I didn’t

“I’m not going to force you if you don’t want to. You’ll just lose

I blurted, “Twenty

entitled to a twenty percent commission for all successful bids. This policy

distributions for successful bids, but supervisors typically got a five percent

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