“Fine by me. Keep it to yourself.”Damon waved again, and the security formed a wall around him.Xavier was so close to being kicked out of the banquet that he finally cried out frankly, “I hold at least 20% of the company’s shares, so I want to be a member of the board of directors. Give me a post.”To make a request this brazen in the open, where everyone could hear it loud and clear, trapped Damon into quite the corner. The two brothers might not be close over the years, but they were stil

What sort of scheme had his wayward brother just cooked up again?Just as expected, his mother’s call arrived a few hours later. Sylvia’s voice was absolutely bursting with glee as she announced, “Damon! Xavi has come home!”“I know. We met.”Damon and Xavier might not have met each other for years, but Damon knew the same could not be said about his parents. They had never lost contact with that annoying little brat this whole time. They had never stopped calling him every now and then, and

“M-M-Mrs. Leighton, I really think you might have mistaken me as someone else…”“Jeanette! Are you telling me you don’t remember me? I’m your mother, honey!”“What!?”Jenny had thrown her arms around the daughter who had come back from the dead, and her hug only tightened from there. She was crying so hard, she was starting to pant.“Four years, Jeanette! I’ve thought you were dead these four years! They told me you died abroad… So many told me that and I… You have no idea how much my heart

It was hardly surprising that Jenny would point her finger at Damon for making her life so hard—it was all because he was nasty, heartless, and brutish!“I’m just glad to see you alive and safe, Jeanette. We’ll talk about other things in the future, okay?”“Uh… Okay.”Jeanette had a feeling that something was amiss, but she was at least sure that the woman standing before her was her mother. Hence, she spread her arms wide and hugged her.…Xavier did not seem to hold any opinion about Jean

Jeanette quickly grabbed the young woman’s hand and shook it. “I’m Jeanette Leighton.”…Jeanette received a call for an interview about two days later.It became clear just how rigorous the hiring process of a megacorporation could be. Jeanette was merely looking to be a clerk in the administrative branch, and yet she was required to go through a face-to-face interview, a pen-and-paper test, and some kind of secondary test. It was a tedious road.Jeanette was interviewed by the same recruit