281 Trapped 2 (2/2)
Sofony paused her fingers in the air and placidly glanced at the middle-aged guy in a brownish suit. The voice that came out of her rosy lips was as icy as her stares.
”So my words are not clear enough? I said drag, so drag. If you can't, then find someone to do the job. And before you do, pass your office to that someone. Understand?”
The manager fearfully nodded.
After that, she turned to the others who came to report and dealt with them one by one. Her expression from beginning to end was as serene as a frozen lake in the northern region of the world. Even when she dropped an unreasonable command to the poor manager, her face and tone remained the same.
'We need to get out. Our own queen has become more or less like Amelia Morgan of the rivaling company, damn!' thought the employees as they excused themselves from the place which had the same airconditioning temperature as the rest of the building, yet still somehow felt several degrees lower.
Once outside, everyone showed a face full of misgivings. They all then swore in their hearts. Gaaah! Who the hell took away their benevolent to her people yet deadly to outsiders boss? Don't ever show their faces around Starlight or they would murder them!
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Sofony found Chris brought to her office four hours later.
Actually the guy could have come earlier if not for being stubborn and first checking on the kid staying at the place of Alessa's bodyguards. He made things a bit difficult for the manager who came to him. But at least it was not to the point that the latter dreaded. In the first place, the people from the agency were just being excessively worried. As long as they don't cross the line, he wouldn't actually give a damn about them.
When the discussion happened between them, Sofony finally showed how bad her mood was. Her face was so dark, her secretaries who could see them from the nearby cluster of tables wondered how the hell Chris stayed calm and collected after angering her.
Without care for those secretly peering at them through the glass partition, Chris gave Sofony a disdainful glance before spatting out, ”Sofony. Just to remind you. You have so many enemies now. So why did you do that? Do you know how stupid you look to me now? You revealed yourself in that broadcast. If those stronger than you inquired about the disguised woman, then you're simply doomed. Tch.”
Chris clicked his tongue. The operation was simply a joke. Only the clone of the leader was the important person killed. But then it didn't mean much when the leader was still alive, together with a few of that person's core members. She even provoked the disaster from the west when not even the terrible unidentified enemy from three years ago had been dealt with. Leo Jones too was not someone they could confront even if they joined forces together. Tch.
Sofony coldly replied, ”I had to do that for diversion, to distract them and concentrate their people on my end. If you haven't checked the news yet, which I doubt, the other countries won't have helped send the bomber jets to those bases without the broadcast showing those enslaved people.”
'Makes sense... yet still sounds stupid.' He gave her a more disdainful glace which annoyed the woman further.
They talked more about the things that happened on both sides. Steffy was mentioned as the reason why Gio appeared at the mansion and saved them. Maila mysteriously vanished. They speculated that she was most likely taken away by Leo Jones who had swapped places with Chris that time. The Blood Countess mentioned their country had a king. But who knows who he was and why he was not showing up. Apparently, that time, the two forgot to link the mysterious doctor from three years ago to that noble term.
”Now, what are you going to do? Continue acting as if you're just a normal company leader and that all the issues here are your problems?” The man glanced at his wristwatch to check for the time. Amidst this, he added, ”Don't forget that Sofia is gone and you angered that fool for not waking his girlfriend up. You can't count on Mr. Albarez all the time, he's just one man. You can't count on me too, I'm weak. In fact, I'm planning to abandon your ship, since my head is sane yet and I know that I'll be the first to die once all of them act simultaneously.”
Chris said it all to her while sitting relaxedly on the sofa leaning against the wall to the right. His matter-of-fact tone annoyed Sofony. She stared at him for a fairly long time with seriousness written all over her face.
”Chris Meyer. You seem to be forgetting something too.”
She had already finished the important ones needing her stamp and approval. With a mirthless smile, she pushed away the stacks of papers to the side then continued speaking,
”Even if you wash your hands clean off, in the end, those I can't easily deal with would have means to identify you as somebody related to me. Your memory seems weak these days, no? The enemies of people like us are the same as us, probably more brutal and insane.”
The man indifferently replied, ”A pity then, I would have to jump ship.”
”Don't make me threaten you with my fiance.” She snorted.
While she said this, actually the threat was already declared, rendering Chris' cold face turning colder. Her bad mood had already made the airconditioning of the room reached a freezing point, now the secretaries at the nearby glass room, who could feel the change in temperature beyond the glass wall were shivering.
Sofony noticed this and leaned her back. With eyes dark as ink, she irritatedly said, ”Let's not talk in circles anymore, Chris. What the hell is your problem with me that you're purposely annoying me?”
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