Chapter 42 A mountainous vige of giant smanders


    Joey was shocked to hear the news.


    She had lied to her parents yesterday that she had gone on a business trip to another city to discuss


    about a development program. The lie became reality today.


    It seemed that the lie had gotten back at itself.


    John Walter frowned at herck of response. He went over to her and said, “Don’t you want your job


    after you hooked up with Mayor Allen Charles? Let me give you a word of advice. A woman who


    depends on her man will alwayse to a bad end.”


    Joey wasn’t happy to hear that, “Who says I will depend on a man? Don’t look down on a girl. I’m going


    with you. It’s my work after all. I will never make up excuses to evade what I should do. Mr. Walter, after


    you then.”


    There was no denying that she was lesspetent in some aspects, but she had always been an


    independent young woman. She knew Allen was the mayor and he was wealthy and privileged. But


    she had never intended to depend on him in any way because she had her own dreams and


    aspirations.


    John Walter put on a vague smile before he turned around to walk toward the door.


    Sarah, who had followed John Walter all the way, froze when he asked Joey toe along with him.


    He had just rejected Mi and Nana (both were his personal secretaries) even if they begged him to


    take them on the road in tears. But now he offered to bring Joey along.


    Joey didn’t notice John Walter’s fleeting strange when he left, but Sarah did.


    Sarah’s heart sunk.


    John Walter had decided to bring Joey and Sarah as his secretaries and four fully- armed bodyguards


    on this trip.


    After they got in the car driven by a professional driver, John Walter sat alone in the passenger seat in


    the front row. Joey and Sarah sat in the back seats. The bodyguards were in the other car which


    followed the president’s car.


    When the car was started, Sarah briefed Joey on the development program.


    They were headed to a mountainous area in the neighboring city where there was a small


    underdeveloped vige called Vige of Giant Gmanders. John Walter nned to acquire the vige


    and its surrounding thickly forested mountains within a radius of one hundred miles at a high price.


    Why would he do that?


    The story started with the name of the vige, the Vige of Giant Gmanders.


    It was called the Vige of Giant Gmanders because it was a ce with particrly favorable


    conditions for the breeding of giant smanders. The pools were shady and cool. It was said that the


    survival rate of giant smanders was as high as 90%.


    The amazing survival rate had gone beyond the capability of national experts.


    Giant smanders were national protected animals, but the second-generation giant smanders


    were allowed to be bred and put up for sale. A grown giant smander was worth thousands of dors.


    It was a very profitable business.


    In his pursuit of high profits, John Walter had decided to try a new line of work and even go on a field


    trip.


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    “How long will it be?” Joey wondered.


    “Three days at least and one week at most.” Sarah’s answer was short.


    Sarah couldn’t get the way John Walter had looked at Joey and his smile out her head. She knew how


    excellent Joey was more than anyone else. She wasn’t surprised to find that he wanted Joey. However,


    the very thought of another woman being involved in their rtionship was annoying, even if Joey was


    her best friend who had no intention to do so.


    “It’s so long. But I’ve prepared nothing.”


    Joey was worried. She had stayed at Sarah’s homest night and had to put on Sarah’s clothes this


    morning. She was wearing Sarah’s suit now, let alone a change of clothes.


    “That’s all right. There are daily necessities in the trunk.”


    It was John Walter in the front seat answering her question.


    Joey bit her lips. It was an order from the president. What else could she say? She borrowed Sarah’s


    phone (her phone had been shattered by Ben Hawk) to call her parents. With the lie she had told them


    yesterday, she easily got their approval, especially her father who kept telling her to take good care of


    herself despite of work.


    After she hung up the phone, she intended to call Allen to tell him that she would be away for three to


    seven days. She was afraid that he would freak out if he couldn’t reach her in the few next days.


    What she hadn’t expected was that John Walter, who assumed that she would call Allen next, suddenly


    turned around and took the phone rudely. He looked sideways at Joey, “Don’t think that you are not at


    work today when you aren’t in the office. It’s work time and you made calls nonstop in front of me. Are


    you really focused on your work?”