Chapter 8

Chapter 8

I’d only said that to scare them, but I never expected these people to be so stubborn. Now I was stuck—when we actually did the audit, it didn’t take long for several of them to be taken to the police station.

I started to panic. After all, with them gone, the company was basically paralyzed.

Several ongoing projects had to be put on hold. Not only did I have to find replacements for the people in charge, but even if I did, without Ethan Green signing the project transfer agreements, it would all be for nothing.

I was swamped with work. Everyone in the company was watching me like I was a joke, and some even complained that I’d made too big a mess this time. There were already more than a dozen resignation letters on my desk. The finance director came to tell me an even more cruel fact:

During the week I’d been fooling around with Ethan Green and not coming to the company, Ethan Green had almost run the company into the ground. And the people who had resigned were demanding their salaries, listing out all my irresponsible actions as reasons to terminate their labor contracts.

This was going to be a tough hurdle to get over. I told the finance department to settle the salaries as best they could, then pulled out my phone and started calling all the numbers with “Investment” in their names.

But before I could even explain why I was calling, as soon as they heard my name, they hung up like they’d seen a ghost.

What was going on? What had I done to these investors that they hated me so much?

I was racking my brain, trying to figure out if I could ask the finance department about getting a bank loan to get through this, when my phone suddenly rang with a call from an unknown number.

Overjoyed, I took the finance director and went to the agreed location. Then, in the private room, I saw Luke Brown sitting on a black leather sofa, wearing a custom-tailored suit and gold-rimmed glasses, sipping coffee elegantly.