Marissa stormed back into her office, pulled out her chair, and sat down hard. She slammed the flash drive onto the desk and glared across the room.
"What kind of garbage did you people put together? If you can't do your jobs properly, then pack up your things and get out."
The deputy manager of the project team stood at her desk with his head lowered, stammering, "Ms. Scott, please calm down."
"You're the new deputy project manager?" Marissa leaned back in her chair and narrowed her eyes at the man standing in front of her.
"Yes…" The deputy project manager, Simon Shaw, was drenched in sweat, his voice shaking with fear.
As the CEO, Marissa normally didn't review project proposals herself. That was something delegated to department managers.
The project manager, Paul Yarrow, lowered his head and tried to step in.
"Ms. Scott, Simon just joined the company. He might not be familiar with your standards yet, so—"
Before he could finish, Marissa snapped, her tone sharp.
"Is it that he doesn't understand my standards, or was he just never qualified in the first place—only getting in through connections? You both know the answer to that."
Both men stiffened at her words.
She pointed directly at Simon. "You're fired. Get out. I don't want to see your face again."
"Ms. Scott, please give me another chance!" Simon dropped to his knees.
"Get out!" Marissa barked.
Tears streamed down Simon's face as he begged, "Ms. Scott, I have a family to feed. Please, I need this job. Just give me one more chance. I'll do better. I'll revise the proposal. Please don't fire me…"
Marissa's gaze was cold. She didn't waste another word. She picked up the landline phone on her desk and made a call.
"Send a few security guards to my office. Have Simon removed."
"Yes, Ms. Scott," her assistant responded.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: His Unveiled Passion
Whoa! Hahahahahaha! Go, Sophia! Burn, stupid Rowena! Lol...
Sooo~ Chapters 310-318 were just a repeat of Jacqueline’s punishment, official expulsion from the Jacobson family, and arrest. With few changes since Tessa and Stephen are not together this time. So Tessa didn’t witness how Jacqueline was tortured at Stephen’s base, though at least Tessa was still called over and witnessed how Stephen officially expelled Jacqueline from the Jacobson family and how Stephen’s subordinate made Jacqueline grovel in front of Tessa. Lol. I hope Jacqueline’s really out of the story now....
Also a lot of chapters were missing here. I went back to the application where it was originally published that’s why i know that this site is not reliable...
Fucked up book! Seems like the authors were not talking to each other. LOL. Yes authors, because of the inconsistencies....
The story went downhill after pg200 1. Why is Jacqueline back… she was expelled from the family already 2. There was no reason for Rowena to be mad at Tessa 3. The Jacobson already knows that Stephen wants to get back witb Tessa after they deal with James, so why is Rowena pushing hard? LOL 4. The family also knows that Stephen and Nancy have some sort of deal. The story was okay from page 1-199, but clearly it’s a thumbs down. I can deal with grammatical errors, but story errors is just different now....
This is funny! Jacqueline was also the culprit why James knew that nancy was Stephen's cousin. So, really, what happened when steohen tortured jacqueline hahah...
I wonder how many authors does this book have? Suddenly jacqueline was back and continue to bad mouth tessa. And was stunned that tessa knows her feelings about stephen. And then rowena was freaking mad at tessa too; because there werw multiple instances that tessa sharp-tongued her. 🤣...
What is wrong with the story flow? At chapter 160-164 there’s this whole thing about Stephen revealing in front of all the Jacobsons family members about Jacqueline’s inappropriate feelings towards him and her involvement in murder. There’s even this “Just like that, Jacqueline was officially expelled from the Jacobson family. Stephen then promptly handed her to the authorities.” So I was already glad the bitch is out of the picture. And then suddenly at chapter 236, Jacqueline appears again like nothing happened, still being the adoptive daughter of the Jacobson family and the family being unaware of her feelings for Stephen. Seriously? Doesn’t make sense anymore....
The latest update is just a repetition of the previous chapters...
I don’t like that Stephen is dropping Tessa. They could work together to go after James. But if this happens then I’ll stop reading....