went smoothly.
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I put on my sunglasses. “Then you’ll have to personally apologize to our partner. Make sure to
show some sincerity.”
After saying that, they only got a whiff of the exhaust fumes from the Rolls–Royce. If it weren’t for me, they probably wouldn’t even have had that.
I didn’t go home. I went straight to the office.
Since my parents passed away, I had fallen into a slump and stopped going to the
company. I handed everything over to Asher. At that time, I naively thought he was my husband and that we were a team. What was mine was his.
Looking back now, I was so foolish.
I walked straight toward the president’s elevator, only to be stopped.
The receptionist flashed a professional fake smile. “Hello, may I ask who you’re looking for?”
I froze. This was the first time I’d encountered this situation. Stopped at my own company’s staff.
I looked at the receptionist and noticed I didn’t recognize any of these people. “Is Stella not here today?”
“Stella Jacobs? She was fired.”
How could that be?
Stella, who was only two years older than me, tall and well–groomed, how could she have
been fired?
Seeing that I didn’t speak, the receptionist asked again, “Who are you looking for?”
“I’m Clarke.
Logan was my “ughter.”
I couldn’t believe she didn’t know who I was.
The receptionist kept her fak
smile. “This way, please.”
She made a gesture toward the company’s entrance.
“What are you doing? You didn’t even recognize Ms. Clarke? What are you even doing here?”
At that moment, Ryan Hail came over and scolded the receptionist.
Ryan was an old employee and a leader in the company. He was the one who finally got me through.
It used to be that everyone in the company knew me. Now, even the receptionist dares to
stop me.
After a year away, Asher probably thought he could pull a fast one.
I turned back to the receptionist. “You’re fired. Go to the finance department to collect your severance. You don’t need to come in tomorrow.”
I didn’t care about her muttering behind me. I walked straight into the president’s elevat
The 46th floor was the top floor, the president’s office, the same place my dad used to work. Once I got up, I was stopped again.
Fortunately, Ryan Hail was there to smooth things over, so it didn’t get too awkward.
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Entering the office, I saw Asher’s nameplate on the desk.
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This used to be my dad’s office, and back then, Asher was just a small secretary assistant.
Now, he was the one in charge.
“Liliana, what are you doing here?”
Just as I sat down, the office door opened, and Asher walked in.
I spun around in the office chair and smiled. “If I didn’t show up, I’m afraid no one would even
recognize me around here anymore.”
Asher didn’t take me seriously. He asked casually, “Liliana, have you been in contact with
Ethan recently?”
Ethan Gaines had grown up with me. He was my childhood friend, and later, he moved to
Solara.
A year ago, when my parents passed away, he returned and has been developing his career
here ever since.
“Our company has a major project going on, and they’re bidding on it. The dinner’s tomorrow night. Come with me.”
I knew exactly what Asher was thinking.
This project was his first major one to lead alone, and all the senior people in the company
were watching closely.
If it failed, the shareholders would definitely question his abilities.
In the worst–case scenario, they might even force him out of the president’s office.
After all, he was just an employee with no shares in the company.
Firing him would be a matter of seconds.
That was why he wanted to take a risky path. He thought that if I died, he could inherit my
shares, and the company could legally take his surname, Farley.
