CHAPTER 46

The news that Veronica was now Elizabeth’s god-granddaughter gave Floch and his wife an impending sense of doom.

To ensure that Tiffany had a stable life when she married into the Kings Family, they started to plan and scheme in their villa.

At the same time, Veronica arrived at the Glory Medical Equipment Company.

The company, which was one of the corporations that Xavier owned, was barely surviving even though it had the backing of the Crawford Family. However, it wasn’t bleeding any money either.

Standing in the CEO’s office, Veronica looked at Xavier fooling around and asked, “What work do you want me to take on here?”

After entering the company, she instantly lost all her fervor when she saw the state of the workplace.

The employees were all lazy, slow and inefficient. The company should be thanking God that they haven’t gone bankrupt yet with such a management.

No, the one they should be thanking is the Crawfords.

Xavier had a laid-back expression as he leaned on the executive chair in his suit. While he had crossed his legs on the office table, he had a cigarette in his mouth as he smoked lazily.

“You could be the manager of the warehouse, sales department, project department, supervisor of the accounting department or the head of the secretaries. It’s up to you.”

Looking at Xavier wasting his talents made Veronica feel extremely disappointed.

With a slight frown, she shook her head in resignation. “Xavier, are you going to just let your youth waste away like this?”

“To live unexamined while being supported is also a kind of enjoyment.”

He felt the disappointment and feeling of loss in her smile, but merely smiled in

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Then, he stood up and raised his hand to point around the extravagant office. “Do you know how many would dream to live a life like mine?”

His words spoke the truth.

And this truth was something that Veronica had no reason to rebuke him with.

After looking at each other for a few seconds, she broke the silence by saying, “My sincere thanks to you for looking after me, but I don’t want to work here.”

This was a company so mismanaged that it could close down at any moment.

Another thing that she was worried about was the kind of atmosphere in the company could influence her to become just as lazy and unmotivated as the employees.

Xavier stood there dazed after hearing her words as he looked at her unblinkingly without uttering a single word.

“I still have something to attend to, so goodbye.”

After saying her farewell, Veronica turned around to leave.

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Only when she reached the door of the office did she suddenly stop. Looking back at him, she asked, “Do you have someone whom you want to protect?”

Still staying silent, Xavier did not reply.

He had been holding a lighter in his hand earlier as he was ready to light up the cigarette in his mouth.

However, because of Veronica’s words, he stopped in his actions and raised his head perplexedly.

“I’ve heard the rumors about you. However, if you keep wasting away like this, you’ll only come to regret your own incompetence and lack of motivation when you can’t even protect the one you love in the future.”

The pressure from various strong oppositions had almost suffocated Veronica numerous times.

Yet, for the sake of her foster parents, she persevered with caution in each step.

The only reason why she had suffered so much was because she was a nobody. She didn’t have any money or power to speak of. N

So as an experienced individual, Veronica did not want Xavier to follow in her footsteps.

She then left the office and closed the door behind her.

Do you have someone that you want to protect? That was her question that he repeated in his mind while standing at the same spot. Yes, I do.

In his mind, the first person who was able to fit that description was none other than Veronica herself.

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Suddenly, the engraved lighter in his hand fell onto the ground.

In a state of utter helplessness, he sat on his chair again

Xavier had never felt ashamed or insulted from the amount of insults and ridicule he received all these years.

Yet, for some unknown reason, it only took just a look from Veronica for his heart to ache.

As if he was being defibrillated after suffocating, his sunken heart started to race.

Meanwhile, Veronica had already taken the elevator down to exit the company.

Just as she was heading toward the motorcycle parking area, a voice came from behind her.

“Roni?”

It was Xavier who called her.

When she turned her head, she saw him running toward her.

A curious Veronica asked, “What’s wrong?”

As he stood in front of her, Xavier took a slight breather before replying with a dim spark in his gaze, “Are you willing to stay and develop Glory Company into the giant that it can be with me?”

“What?”

She felt extremely astonished by his proposal.

“Do you really believe that I can manage this company properly?”

“Then, you’ll have to ask yourself whether you had ever seriously managed this company before.”

The Xavier that Veronica knew was smart and wise-unlike what the rumors suggested him to be, which was a useless piece of trash’.

“I’m lacking a competent assistant now. So, are you willing to stay and fill that position?” Xavier asked again.

His gaze was stern without any hint of all this being a joke.

Nevertheless, Veronica agreed even though she was still a bit startled. “Of course I would.”

No matter how long he could maintain his current passion to manage the company, he was at least serious about it for the time being.

What he helped her with, she was going to repay him tenfold.

Veronica was more than willing to repay Xavier after he had helped her so many times before.

“Then, welcome to Glory Company.”

Seeing that she had agreed to join, the beaming Xavier reached out for a friendly handshake.

Looking at his extended arm, she purposely ignored it and instead informed him about this. “You haven’t told me about the type of work you want me to do, though.”

“What work do you want?”

“I want to be in sales.”

“Then, you can be the head of the sales department cum my personal secretary then. How does that sound?”

“Um…”

Veronica never expected that Xavier would allow her to be the head of the sales department just like that.

He already grabbed her hand to shake it just as she hesitated. “We’re a company that specializes in medical equipment, so the scope of our operations is not that wide. Whenever there’s a business deal, I come with you too. So, not being able to qualify as the head of sales is a needless worry for you.”

After that, Veronica did try to reject him, but Xavier’s stubbornness in this matter persuaded her to agree in the end.

As the two returned to the CEO’s office, he ordered his employees to allow Veronica to have a look at the company’s financial statement in the last two years and also introduced each and every head of department to her.

Veronica, who had studied marketing management, was moved by Xavier’s absolute trust in her

She thought, If he really intends to manage the company seriously, then I‘ll help him out while learning what I can at the same time.

The two were busy from midday till late afternoon until they had a simple dinner at 6:00PM.

After the meal, she was forcefully dragged to a club for drinks as Xavier wanted to congratulate her for joining the Glory Company.

The stuffy and hot Veronica felt strangely uncomfortable after a few rounds of drinking

Stepping out of the private room, she wanted to take a breather outside when something felt off just after a brief moment outside.

As Veronica was about to head inside to look for Xavier, someone suddenly struck her head from behind with force.

She let out a painful gasp before falling onto the floor with her vision turning black..

The moment she collapsed, she knew that she was in danger, but she never had the chance to call out for help.