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~[CHAPTER THIRTEEN]~

Jane Parker.

Those pair of eyes settled on my figure had managed to have me snapped back to reverie, with the voice of the announcer calling for me, ushering me onto the awaiting stage.

My presence on that platform for whatever reason had those prying gazes onlooking my withered form.

The silence which came about had claimed most of the room, and with all attention fixed my way, I was spared a few seconds to have a rethink of why I agreed to this.

Adalynn.

It was that persistent figure who had pushed me into this, stating that if I in fact was to live up to all what I claimed to be, then I must in fact give a speech at the annual ‘Corporates Innovative conference’ which was a safe space for all of the big names I had come to know, and now here I was, being awaited by a hundred, all anticipating what the representative of Holden Inc. had to spew.

I approached the mic, feet hesitant, eyes paused on the sea of heads below.

Among those figures, I was quick to re