Chapter 799“Cant | be curious? Lewis reached out to grab his phone when he saw that Larissa refused to say it. “If you don’t tell me, I’ll call Marilynright nowLarissa hurriedly stole his phone from him and gave In helplessly. “I’ll say it! Don’t make things hard for Marilyn!”Lewis smirked victoriously and waited for Larissa’s […]
Chapter 798 “Why not?” Larissa thought Marilyn had overreacted. “Mr. Logan Junior is not a wall or something. What’s wrong with liking him?” Marilyn waved at Larissa to tell her to be quiet. “Don’t let Mr. Logan Junior hear you say that!” “What’s wrong?” Larissa turned to look at the direction Lewis had left in. Once she was sure she could not see him, she said, “I thought our company doesn’t prevent workplace relationships?” She knew this because the presidential office had one couple. Although it was not obvious, they did not hide themselves when they were being affectionate with each other. Although Lewis was strict, that was only on work. He could not prevent ladies from liking him. “Shh Marilyn moved her chair closer to Larissa and leaned closer to her. She spoke in a low voice, “Our female employees know that all other men in the company are available except for Mr. Logan Junior.” “Why?” Larissa only heard this for the first time. “Mr. Logan Junior did not make any rules– But previously, some bold ladies confessed to him, Birted with him openly and secretly. In the end, they were all fired.” The previous examples still frightened Marilyn, “Moreover, you will get fired too for showing that you like him for just a little bit! So, after that, no one dared to try again.” “Huh — Larissa could not understand why Lewis insisted on being single. After a moment of thought, a dumb idea came to her mind. “He can’t be into guys, right?” The moment Larissa said that, Marilyn rushed to cover Larissa’s mouth. She looked up at the same time and said shakily. “Mr. Logan Junior Lewis stopped next to them. He looked at Marilyn, then at Maria, and he frowned. “What are you two doing?” “Nothing. We were just chatting.” Marilyn smiled sheepishly. She let go of Larissa and straightened up. Then, she changed the subject like she did not mean to and said, “How come you came back so fast?” Lewis still watched them suspiciously. “There weren’t a lot of people paying for the bill” he replied. Marilyn quickly grabbed her bag and stood up to prevent him from asking more questions. “Let’s go then since we’ve paid!” As she spoke. she pulled on Larissa’s arm. Larissa was not afraid of Lewis, but she was afraid of Lewis seeing Marilyn in a bad light, so she agreed with her friend and said. “Thank you for your treat today, Mr. Logan Junior. I guess today ends here.” Lewis pretended not to notice the weirdness of both ladies as he agreed with Larissa. He followed them out of the restaurant. They walked back to the company to get their cars. Larissa did not drive to work, so Lewis suggested sending her back. “It’s easy for me to drop by Larissa’s place, I can give her a lift back.” “Sure. Drive safely.” Marilyn was probably still worried about Lewis holding her accountable, and she did not say more to him. She got into her car and escaped. After getting into the car, Lewis only started demanding answers from Larissa. “Who did you say was into guys to Marilyn earlier?” He only heard that one sentence, But from the ladies‘ reactions, he might be who they were talking about Larissa laughed as she tried to fudge it over. “Just a male colleague.” “Who?” Lewis refused to let her go. He wanted to find out exactly who. “Which department? What’s his name?” “Why are you asking such detailed questions? Larissa pretended to glare at him angrily. “Our company has no rule saying we can’t hire people like that!
Chapter 797 Marilyn’s previous embarrassment vanished as smiled brightly. “Thank you, Mr. Logan Junior Her gratitude was real Her joy was the most obvious that Larissa had seen in these few days. It turned out that people were all the same when bonuses were in front of them. Their food arrived. Larissa and Lewis ate happily. Marilyn could not eat spicy things, so whenever she took a bite, she had to drink some water before swallowing it. Seeing that Marlyn was struggling to eat as she ate like she was eating poison, Larissa was a bit confused. “If you don’t like Caldorian food, why did you suggest coming here?” Larissa never cared too much about food. Back then, she would just mess around with Wendy, ordering fast food fakeout from nearby whenever they did not feel like cooking. Otherwise, they would just find a way to deal with it in the hotel When Larissa went outside to eat in restaurants, she did it for the clients. The locations were all decided by her assistant. Larissa never had to thirk Today was similar too. Marilyn was the one who suggested and decided everything. Larissa was only in charge of paying. “Because you’ve never tried this restaurant before! I wanted to bring you here to try.” Marlyn’s tongue was sticking out due to the spiciness. She did not look Fke the “Ice Princess” now and kept hissing when she spoke, “Everyone said the Caldorian food here was original so guessed you would like it.” Larissa was so louched that she felt like she was going to cry. Her early working experiences told her that there were no real friends in the working world. But Marilyn’s acts for her changed Larissa’s understanding of lile. “I do like it.” Larssa said. “Hut you don’t have to force yoursell because of me. Next time, just pick a restaurant that everyone likes!” “Sure!” Mariyn said before gubbing down hall a glass of water. When it was time to pay. Larissa and Lewis fought over it for so long. Although it was decided that Larissa would pay earlier. Lewis said ladies could not be responsible for the bill. He snatched the bill away before Larissa could. Marilyn watched Lewis and sighed. “Mr. Logan Junior is such a handsome gentleman. Whoever marries him will be very lucky and happy!” “Yeah.” Larissa agreed. “Mr. Logan Junior does seem alright. Gentle and considerate in private. He must be good to his wife.” To Larissa, Lewis was a suitable candidate for a husband. He had a lot of good points. He was serious, responsible, detalec, considerate The only bad point he had was that he worked t too much. “Hey, do you like him? Larissa asked Marilyn. Her eyes were sparkling with the light of gossip. Besides worrying about Larissa’s marriage, Gary also worried about Lewis And Larissa, too, wanted to help Lewis find a good partner so that he could have a family soon. The nurse in Barthan was quite good, but a long–distance relationship was unrellable. After all, Lewis‘ work was al locused in Aldovia, so it was better to find a local wile instead. Larissa did not know many unmarried ladies here. The only ones she knew that could be good for Lewis were even lewer. Marin was the best one so far, and she knew Lewis too. The “blind date” part of the process could be avoided. Marilyn paricked at Larissa’s question. Her eyes Icored everywhere else except for Larissa. What nonsense are you saying?” She
Chapter 796Although Lewis sounded like he was just asking, it also sounded like he was trying to place blame on someone.Marilyn was Gary’s secretary. Although she did the typical jobs of a secretary, she was still closer to Gary than the others in the presidential office.Gary was focused on his work. He also held high
Chapter 795 Larissa held the door to let Gary and Lewis in. But Lewis held the other side of the door as he gestured gentlemanly at Larissa and said, ” Ladies first.” Larissa was wondering if she should be polite with him when Marilyn pulled her into the elevator. Marilyn was smiling as she kept thanking Lewis, “Thank you, Mr. Logan Junior!” All four of them stood in the elevator. Most company employees had already left, so the elevator did not stop and went down quickly. Lewis pretended to ask casually. “Where are you going to eat?” Realizing that he was talking to them, Marilyn’s eyes widened as she said shakily, “We’re going to a famous Caldorian restaurant nearby.” Aldovia’s Caldorian restaurants were mostly changed to fit the taste of the locals, so it was not original. However, the restaurant near their company maintained “Caldorian originality.” Hence, it attracted a lot of Caldorians who were working or studying abroad in Westonia, It became a trendy restaurant. Larissa had already heard of this restaurant when she was still working at Winston Hotel But it was far, and since she could already make Caldorian food herself, she never thought of trying the food at the restaurant. Now that Marilyn mentioned it today, Larissa was interested too. “That restaurant, huh Lewis was silent for a moment before he suddenly asked with a smile. “Do you mind me joining in? I suddenly want to eat something Caldorian too.” Faced with one’s superior’s request, one could not simply refuse even if one felt uncomfortable, Larissa and Marilyn looked at each other before they nadded “heartily.” They both said, “Sure.” Thankfully, Gary was not affected, and he did not ask to join. They separated at the building’s main entrance. Gary got into his car while the other three walked to the restaurant. Lewis was the one who suggested walking. were very expensive. The company was near the restaurant, it was hard to find parking there, and the parking fees w The cold night wind blew hard, and Larissa kept wiping off the snot from her nose. Her lair nose was already rubbed red and raw by the rough tissue. Lewis frowned when he saw that. “Have you taken medicine at the company today?” he asked. The concern in his voice was unmistakable. Startled, Larissa quickly put some “distance” between them. “Thank you for your concern, Mr. Logan Junior. I took my medication this afternoon.” Larissa looked at Marilyn nervously. Thankfully, Marilyn did not notice anything strange in Lewis words. She continued to walk forward, and her expression did not change. use they made a reservation this time. After they ordered their food, they did not talk anymore. Larissa and Marilyn kept drinking their lemon water while Lewis looked at his phone now and then to reply to messages. Ten minutes later, the three arrived at the restaurant. They did not have to wait outside because The atmosphere at the table became awkward. Lewis put down his phone and stopped holding himself as a supervisor of the company as he spoke to the two women in a friendly manner. “Don’t be so reserved. I’m not too bad of a person to be with in private.” Larissa smiled while Marilyn said, “Of course.” Lewis glanced at Larissa before choosing to talk to Marilyn. “Did you know about how Judy usually bullied newcomers in the company?” 1/1
Chapter 794 Objectively speaking, Judy’s actions could only prove that her personality in private was shit. Even if the video got posted online, the worst that could happen was that people would condemn her so much that she lost her dignity. It would not get so bad that she would lose her job. Alas, the bad thing about this was that people managed to find out exactly who she was was near impossible to find the true identity of a person based on just one video online. One needed advanced face recognition technology for that. For Judy’s identity to be exposed in just a day was definitely because the video was spread everywhere. So much so that Judy’s friends and acquaintances were able to tell that it was her. Still, Larissa thought the most important thing was that Judy had offended too many people. Thus, others would purposely drag her down and post all of her information online. The netizens wanted Judy to be punished. So, the most direct way was to pressure the company she worked at and get her fired. Although Blue Star Shipping did not depend on these netizens to make money, the company’s reputation was still affected when the issue got bigger. When clients thought of reaching out to their company for business, there would be concerns on their end. So the easiest option was to fire Judy. Larissa would be lying if she said she was not happy Judy was fired. After all, she was a victim of Judy’s workplace violence. But since Judy could join Blue Star in the first place and work under Gary and Lewis for so long, her capabilities must be quite good. Besides, Judy seemed to have a certain credibility in the presidential office. Larissa was worried that the moment she left, the others in the same department would have some kind of opinion or something. So. Larissa asked Marilyn, “Don’t the others have thoughts on Judy’s termination?” Marilyn replied, “Unless they want to get fired too, they can only remain silent! Do you have time after work today? I treat you to a meal! Let’s celebrate Judy getting fired! Let me tell you a secret. I actually hated her for a long time!” Larissa did not expect Marilyn to hate Judy. Based on Larissa’s observations. Judy may be arrogant, but she sill treated Marilyn well. Truth was, everyone seemed to treat Marilyn very well. It was probably because they were scared of her. “I treat you instead, Larissa said. Last time Marilyn had treated her. This time, she had to treat Marilyn back. Marilyn was so polite to Larissa, and she was finally convinced by Larissa. They discussed it for a while before they decided on a trendy restaurant Without Judy. Larissa found working hours easy to go through. No one dared to target her, though their attitude to her could not be said to be any better. But Larissa did not have much contact with them, so she could still handle it. After work, Larissa and Marilyn waited until everyone had left before going out to wait for the elevator together. A while later, they met Gary and Lewis. Manlyn quickly greeted the men, and Larissa followed her lilend. “Mr. Logan Senior, Mr. Logan Junior,” Gary looked at Larissa and Manlyn replied, “Lariss. He asked as a greeting, “Why you leave so late?” agreed to have dinner together. There won’t be any seats for us if we went early.” 1/2 close together. “Well, our seats are close to each other, and Marilyn has helped me out a lot with work.” Larissa was grateful to Marilyn, so she said a few good things about her friend. Gary nodded in satisfaction as he said, “Good.” Then, he instructed Marlyn. Larissa just joined us. Please guide her more.” Marilyn quickly answered. “I will,” The elevator arrived.
Chapter 793 Marilyn gave Larissa looks with her eyes. She was telling her to look at the company’s internal communication software. Larissa had been busy trying to find people when she first arrived. Then, she was called into Lewis office. Only now did she have the time to open up all the scltware on her laptop. The message icon in the bottom right comer of the laptop’s screen kept flashing. Larissa clicked on it and saw Marilyn’s message. “Judy has been fired by Mr. Logan Senior in person Today’s last–minute meeting was held because of Judy. Mr. Logan Serior was so angry! Thank goodness you did not come!” Judy was fired? Shocked, Larissa glanced over in the direction of Judy’s seat, but there was a wall blocking her. So, she was not able to see il Judy was still there or not. “What happened?” she asked Marilyn, who sent her a link. Larissa only found out that Blue Star Shipping had a little internal forum after she clicked on the link. The forum had a. kinds of sections for different topics. Marilyn hinted at her. “Look at the top trending post in the gossip section!” The posts in each section were arranged based on how popular they were. The most viewed and commented–en post would be pushed all the way to the top. Larissa saw the headline. “Viral Mean Girl on Facebook and Twitter Is Actually From Our Company!” and she was very confused. Larissa rarely used any other social media apps apart bum instant messaging ones. When she came to Aldovia, almost Purryone was on Facebook Twitter, and Instagram. Larissa got dragged into spending more time on these apps by Wendy. SIL, she did not really use them often. Things remained the same after she changed her phone, except for WhatsApp. She would still go on WhatsApp and see if Kevan had any As she was not on Facebook or Twitter, she did not know who the Viral Mean Girl was. Thankfully, there was a video in the main thread. The video was something Larissa had seen in person before. It was the entire incident of how Judy screamed at the waitress at the restaurant. After the video, the poster included Judy’s information Ike her name, department, and position. Many colleagues followed the post, and they confirmed the truth of this information. “I know this Judy She is from the presidential office, yeah! But the last time I spoke to her, I thought she was nice. I didnt thrk —” *I know her too! But unlike the other person above me, it was never nice when I spoke to Judy. I’m not surprised that she would do something like this,” “Finally! Someone who has insider information! Quickly! Tell us about all the weird things about Judy! I’m too curious? The post ended up becoming a collection of weird things about Judy. Larissa picked a few to read. They were mostly colleagues from other departments complaining about Judy being a snob, and how she looked down on others and loved showing off. All these could match up with the Judy Larissa knew the 1/2 “Of course!!” Marilyn used a series of exclamation marks to emphasize just how serious the issue was. She randomly took screenshots of a few pictures on Facebook and Twitter and sent them to Larissa. All of them were netizens condemning Judy. Some of them even tagged Blue Star Shipping and demanded the company fire Judy. “Because someone found out that Judy works at nur company, a lot of netizens condemned our company too. They demanded the company give an explanation. Our rivals also took the opportunity to get people to boycott our company. “This thing got pretty big, so Mr. Logan Senior and Junior heard about it too. Yesterday, Mr. Logan Senior directly told Human Resources to fire Judy. He ever got the Legal Department to send a legal letter to Judy to sue her for damaging the company’s reputation. “This morning. Mr. Logan Senior called us all to the meeting room to have a meeting, and he scolded us, saying that we should be careful with what we say when not in the company too. Otherwise, we would end up like Judy as well.”
Chapter 792 Larissa looked up to see an angry, dark–faced Gary. Behind him was Marilyn, who looked very serious too. When he saw Larissa standing outside, Gary stepped walking in surprise. Larissa humedy greeted him. “Mr. Logan Senior, Mr. Logan Junior.” She bowed her head. She did everything she could to act like she was not familiar with these two men. Gary nodded and grunted once in response to Larissa. Then, he walked away without even looking at her to help maintain her act. Lewis also paused in front of Larissa. “Late with no reason. Your attendance bonus along with other bonuses for this month are deducted. “He played the part of a cold, heartless superior, and he ordered Larissa, “Come to my office and explain the reason why you were late.” His voice was not quiet, so all the other colleagues stuck at the door of the meeting room could hear him. Marilyn gave her a look of sympathy while the others sneered at her. Larissa bowed her head even more. She followed behind Lewis. The moment she entered his office though, she looked up at once and rolled her neck. She complained, “Fuck, it’s tiring.” Lewis gave her a look. “Serves you right.” He and Uncle Gary never wanted her to hide her identity in the first place. Larissa was the one who insisted on suffering through this. She even let idiots bully her. Larissa pressec her lps together and decided not to argue with him. “Is your lever gone?” Lewis sat in his chair and asked her as he worked on his computer. “Yes,” Larissa also sat down on a chair in front of him. “I measured before going to sleep yesterday.” “Fair enough. If your fever isn’t gone, Mr. Rogers would not have let you come.” Levis coked up to stare at her thick down jackel. Then, he said. “You could have worn the outfit you did lecay earler. You just had to make things harder for yoursell.” “The others think my outfit is lame.” Larissa tugged on her collar as she pouted. “I just came here. Shouldn’t I try to blend in with the department? “That’s not necessary.” Lewis‘ tone became serous. “You will be the company’s future manager. You don’t need to have good connections with your subordinates and employees. The only thing you need to co is to convince them with your capabilities. Sa- Lewis opened the slideshow she sent over and changed into work mode in a second. “Are you ready to report?” Larissa’s preparations were very good, and her report made Lewis satisfied. “Once your cold is completely gone, you will meet clients with me in a few days. You will officially follow up with projects.” This was the process of getting familiar with the company’s operations, and it was something Larissa had to go through as the successor of the company. “Okay.” Larissa was a little excited. Compared to sitting at her workplace and staring at documents, Latissa preferred to perform fieldwork. She did not need to suffer any rejection from her colleagues either, Alas. Lewis killed her excitement. He gave her a huge slack of documents and told her. “Firish reading all the information about the projects over the next few days.” Larissa carried the documents back to her workplace.
Chapter 791 Aster agreed. “Oh, okay.” Kevan gave Larissa a weird smile. “If you need to work, you can use my laptop.” Larissa sneered at him. “Thank you for that, but I don’t. Flipping. Need t The kid had seen Larissa and Kevan sleeping in the same bed. He now wanted to sleep with them together. Although Larssa’s lever was gone, her cold was rol gone. Worried that she would pass it to him, she persuaded Aster to not sleep with her. In the end, this whole thing ended with Kevan going over to accompany him to bed. Larissa was happy to have the whole bed to herself. She even childishly rolled around the bed a few times. But when she turned off the lights and listened to her own breathing, she let that the bed was too empty. It made her leel a lttle lonely. When she realized that, she felt terrified. She hid hersell under the blanket and curled up under IL She also hugged herself. But even with that, she was unable to stop herself from leeing lonely. She tossed and turned a lot that night before she finally fell asleep because of the cold medicine. She did not hear the moming alarm. When she finally opened her eyes, there was only len minutes left before her work time started. Larissa dressed herself. She did not even apply makeup. She also simply threw on some clothes. She did not care if the clothes matched. and she rushed out of the door. Kevan had probably gone off to send Aster to school. There was no one at home. There was breakfast on the table and a note Kevan left for her. ‘I’m sending Aster to school, and I’ll be back soon. Eat your breakdast first I send you to work later.” Larissa could not wait anymore. She grabbed a cab downstairs. When she was in the car, she only texted Kevan, “I’m already going to work” Larissa was truly late for work. As the subject of public opinion in the company, she was prepared for her colleagues in the department to talk shit about her. However, when she entered the office, all the seals were emply. “Huh?” Lanssa was confused. She texted Marilyn. Where did you all go?” Marilyn did not respond to her, Larissa tried knocking on Lewis‘ office door. There was no response either. The door was not locked. She went inside and was surprised to see the office was empty too. Gary’s office was the same. She did not get any news about a holiday, so today must be a normal work day. Besides, although some colleagues were not here, their Laptops were on and their bags were there. Did they maybe go have a meeting? Larissa heard Marilyn say that when the presidential office has a departmental meeting, they would normally use a small meeting room on the same floor. She went to find the room and saw one of the meeting room doors closeil. Larissa put her ear to the door and could hear the sounds of people taking inside. After she was sure everyone was there, Larissa relaxed a little. But the question of what she should do next became a huge problem. She was already late. It she went in like that, it would definitely make things dillicult for Gary and Lewis. They could not criticize her, but they could not just let her all either.
Chapter 790 Larissa’s body froze. She turned around to look at Aster. Aster seemed rather angry as he stared at Larissa with disapproval, Larissa quickly let go of Kevan. She was about to explain when the kid said. “You guys are not hugging me!” He pouted. Larissa found his hurt look very funny. Kevan was the calmest out of all three of them. He waved to Aster and said. “Come here.” Aster’s eyes lit up at once, and he ran to Kevan. Kevan cave Larissa his laptop and bent down to hus Aster. Aster hugged Kevan and left a big, wet kiss on his cheek. “Daddy’s the best!” Kevan glanced at Larissa, who had a complicated look on her face as she stood there. He purposely asked Aster. “Is Memmy not good?” “Mommy is good too! Aster always liked to latter his mother. He naturally would not ‘disrespect her now. He quickly reached out to Larissa after saying that, adding, “I want Mommy’s Fug too!” Larissa let her Sor crag her over. Aster’s arms were hugging both Kevan and Larissa. It made the three of them stick together tightly. Kevan used his free hand to hug Larissa’s waist and trap her in his arms. Larissa glared at him in secret warning him not to push his luck. Kevan ignored her though, and just spoke to Aster. “Happy now? “Want” Aster tock out his phone and said shyly. “I want to take a picture with Daddy and Mommy- “Of course.” Kevan agreed. He turned to Larissa at once. Aster ca oled his mother. “Mommy!” Larissa could not win against these two annoying people. Even if she hated taking pictures, she could only do it. ‘Sure.” Aster grinned and raised the phone as high as he could go so that everyone’s faces were in the camera. “One, two, three, cheers!” The picture was taken, Aster’s bright smile Larissa’s awkward smile, and Kevan’s gentle smile were all frozen in this picture. Aster sent this picture to Wendy at once. He shouted excitedly. “I want Godma to print this picture for me. I’ll take it to school to show the other kids!! Larissa wanted to stop him. But the moment she thought of how people gave Aster weird looks for having no father all these years, she decided not to say anything in the end. Aster quickly noticed the laptop in Larissa’s arms. “Is this Caddy’s laptop?” he asked. Kevan nodded once. “Yes.” Aster’s eyes were lilled with hope. “Is it for me to play games with? Before Kevan replied, Larissa denied him at once. “No! Daddy’s laptop has very important documents on it. You can’t play with it. If you want to play games so badly, I can let you play on my old laptop. You tell me the name of the game, and I’ll download it for you.” Kevan Side–eyed her, smirking so obviously. “Mommy’s right. He cooperated with her. “I can’t let you use my laptop for now.” “Aww—“Aster pouted disappointedly, ‘Mammy’s old laptop is so laggy” “Then use my current laptop!” Larissa decided at once. The brat could use whatever laptop he wanted as long as it was not Kevan’s. “I you think my laptop is shit, I buy you a new one tomorrow!” “You can’t play games for too long. Just use Morvy’s laptop.” Kevan rubbed Aster’s head stopping Larissa from wanting to buy a new