The door opened and Santiago walked in with a sheaf of documents in his hand. As soon as he started speaking, the conference room immediately fell silent. Coupled with his clothes and the way he carried himself, he looked incredibly elegantdespite being a man. His posture was more morous than a supermodel’s and even better than some movie stars. He was the worldwide recognized standard of style and charisma.
Everyone’s eyes were glued on Santiago. When he entered the room, he tossed the documents in his hand in front of Jepherson and scoffed, “This is my proof of assignment and all my details and recognitions. I’ve received 14 international awards as proof of my capabilities. I am now the general manager of thepany. I,personally,will oversee Raeleigh. I am notfortable with anyone else doing so. I’m sure you understand.”
After saying that, Santiago looked at Raeleigh with a smile on his face, which shocked her. But now, she realized she was very fortunate because Santiago had finally arrived. She really didn’t want Jepherson to be her mentor.
Jepherson looked gloomy. He stared at the documents in front of him, still as a statue as he refuted,“I don’t care about your position, but you’ve outdone yourself with this joke. Just a few offensive remarks from your sister-inw here, and you’re pulling such a silly stunt. Father and mother would know how to handle you. I’m sure you know better than me.”
Santiago chuckled, “Should I prove to you whether she’s my girlfriend or not?”
Jepherson’s face darkened and he roared, “Get lost!”
Santiago picked up his documents and chucked them into Raeleigh’s hands. Crossing his arms over his chest, he said, “I’m heading to the general manager’s office to get some work done. I’ll need to redecorate the entire room too. When it’s ready, Raeleigh will be apanying me there. In addition to that, I will be at Raeleigh’s studio during this period of time. If any of you have any business with me, please find me there.”
“Lamarre didn’t request for a long leave. Instead, he’s submitted his resignation. This is his resignation letter. I have agreed to it and already signed it.”
Santiago loosened his grip, throwing the letter in front of Jepherson. He then turned around to grab Raeleigh’s wrist and went outside.
As the door closed, everyone was spooked at what had happened. Ste quickly stood up and ran towards Jepherson, saying sweetly, “Jepherson.”
“I’m fine.Santiago has never been sensible as a child. He’s still immature. Forget it, let’s get to work.”
Jepherson’s expression gradually lightened up. Rising to his feet, he picked up Lamarre’s resignation letter. He went around and said, “Do as Mr. Santiago says.”
After saying that, he headed outside. Everyone in the room was still stunned. Secretly, the corners of Ste’s mouth turned upwards. Finally,she thought, something interesting was about to y out.
The others also left dejectedly and quietly, afraid to cause trouble.
Jepherson walked out of the conference roomtowards the private elevator. When he entered the elevator, he stood inside and rubbed his forehead wearily. Just then, Stuart called him. The ringing of the fire rm soon red right above him as well.
“Sir, Lamarre’s office is on fire, there was an explosion.”
Stuart really didn’t expect Santiago to be such a daredevil to wreak so much chaos, even setting fire to Lamarre’spany.
“Get someone to take care of it. I’ll head overter. Get the people from Security to inform Raeleigh.”
Jepherson put his cell phone down and lowered his head, staring at the soles of his feet.
When he reached the floor that housed Lamarre’s office, the elevators door slid open and Jepherson stepped out. There were several people on the floor. When they saw Jepherson approaching, they immediately headed towards him, but the first one to reach him was Stuart.
“Mr. Jepherson.”
Jepherson put the staff’s safety before anything else, asking, “Is anyone injured?” To which Stuard answered no. Jepherson looked at a staff member who was quickly rescuing some property and added, “It’s good that everyone is alright. Just put out the fire first. It could be that some mmable items caused the explosion. Inform the Ministry of State Security about this and perform a security audit on all the departments, right away. This can’t happen again.”
“Got it.”
Several staff members nodded in agreement. It was very clear to them that their vice president wanted to prevent matters from getting out of hand.
After the situation was dealt with, Raeleigh came over as well.By the time she arrived, Jepherson was standing at the door with his hands behind his back, peering inside with a nk face. Everything seemed insignificant to him. However, Raeleigh was different. She raced out of the elevator and went straight into Lamarre’s office. When she arrived at the door, she nced at him and followed him in.
Santiago followed behind them leisurely.
Jepherson turned around and shot a contemptuous nce at him. Then, he followed him into Lamarre’s office. When he entered the room, he saw Raeleigh. She was looking everywhere for anything she could salvage. It wasn’t long before her hands were dirty andher eyes filled with tears.
Jepherson walked towards her and pulled her into her arms into aforting embrace, “Don’t cry. You’ll find them.”
Raeleigh shook her head, muttering.“I don’t like this, I don’t like this…”
She couldn’t help but think of the fire from the orphanage.Maybe others couldn’t understand how she felt, but Jepherson could, so he held her tightly, “It doesn’t matter. Everything will be alright. I will restore it back to its original state.”
The people at the security department looked at Raeleigh, Jepherson, and then at Santiago.Suddenly, a realization dawned upon them.
So this was what was going on.
They continued to pack their things. Raeleigh struggled to push Jepherson away and turned around to look for anything she could salvage.
Meanwhile, Santiago leaned against the door and didn’t once think he was causing any trouble. On the contrary, he leaned against the door, perfectlyid-back.
Raeleigh packed up her things. Since there were a lot of things to carry, Jepherson asked someone to carry them to Raeleigh’s old office. Lamarre’sptop was the most damaged item in the room. Jepherson inspected it. Theputer had been moved, and the hard drive inside was gone.
Raeleigh stepped out with a box in her arms. She nced at Santiago before going back to her office.
When she left the room, she looked around and tidied up her things. She felt terribly sorry for Lamarre. Such a terrible ident had happened when her master had just left.
For the entire afternoonRaeleigh sat down in a daze and didn’t eat anything for lunch. Ste went to see Raeleigh, but thetter stayed umunicative, so Ste left her to herself.Copyright N?v/el/Dra/ma.Org.
On the other hand, Jepherson remained in her office while Santiago took a nap.
At five o’clock in the evening, Ste came to Raeleigh’s office again and knocked on her door. Santiago opened his eyes as Ste pushed the door open and walked in.
“Jepherson, when are we heading back? Or should I tell Grandma that we’ll be having dinner out tonight?”
Ste didn’t want Raeleigh to intuit her actual intention, but what she meant was definitely not something as simple as just eating dinner.
Raeleigh finally came to her senses after steeping in such a long daze, saying, “Santiago, let’s go home.”
“Sure.”
With that, Santiago stood up, stretched, and shook his head. Then he left with Raeleigh. When they reached the door, they waited for Jepherson to leave the room.Jepherson dawdled for a while before standing up as well.
“I’ll have Stuart take you to dinner.I’ll pick you upter at 10 o’clock.”
Jepherson needed Ste’s help to keep his rtionship with Raeleigh a secret from Marissa, hence his politeness to her.
“That’s fine, I’ll have dinner with Stuart then,” Ste smiled sweetly and turned around to look at Stuart before chiming, “Stuart,e on.”
After that, she fetched her bag and went into the elevator.