Now that Toby had persuaded her the second time, Sonia thought that she would let him down if she were to keep on hesitating. Besides, he did have a point. Some opportunities were hard to come across for the second time once she missed out on them; perhaps she'd never come across these opportunities again.
Naturally, she had to seize this golden opportunity. Moreover, these batches of goods were snatched from Connor by Toby. Even if her experiment with them turned out to be a failure, even if Paradigm Co. couldn't modify parts of engines, it wouldn't cause any losses to the company. After all, she didn't spend a single penny on the raw materials. She believed that the company's senior executives wouldn't raise any objections upon learning about this.
At the thought of this, she finally made up her mind and nodded in agreement. "Okay, I'll give it a try, then. Thank you."
"It’s nothing. I know that you've always wanted to become successful as soon as possible, and I'm looking forward to it so that you won’t be stressed. Now that there's an opportunity, I hope you can go after it fearlessly. I always have your back, you know," Toby encouraged while looking into her eyes.
Sonia blushed a little. "Tom is still on the other end of the line. Don't you worry that he'll laugh at us after you say these things?"
Tom instantly shuddered on the other end of the line. Therefore, he promptly replied, "Miss Reed, this isn't something to be joked about. Why would I laugh at you two? Plus, I don't have the guts to do so."
"Did you hear that? He says he doesn't dare to do so." Toby pointed at his phone. "So, why worry about him? Just say whatever we want to say."
"Yeah, that's right.” Tom nodded repeatedly.
Sonia covered her mouth as she chuckled. "Alright, cut it out. Just have the goods delivered to Paradigm Co. I'll have Daphne arrange for somebody to wait downstairs and store the goods in the parking lot's storeroom. Then, I'll discuss what we'll do about them at tomorrow's meeting with the company's shareholders.”
Toby lowered his eyes to look at the phone's screen. "Did you hear that?" Obviously, the question was directed at Tom.
Tom pushed his glasses up his nose and said with a straight face. "Don't worry, President Fuller. I'm not hard of hearing." So you don't have to go out of your way to ask me this.
"Since you've heard that, just do as she says," Toby said impassively as his thin lips parted. You may get lost now, he thought.
Tom was only too eager to hang up the call. The instant Toby said that, he quickly bid his goodbyes, saying, "Goodbye, President Fuller.” Then, he wasted no time in ending the call.
This was Toby's first time having his subordinate hang up on him, so he was involuntarily stunned for a moment. Then his handsome face darkened as he realized what had just happened. "How dare he hang up on me without my permission!" He clutched his phone as he looked at Sonia with a visible hint of disbelief in his eyes.
His shocked appearance amused Sonia, so she merely patted him on the shoulder. "Alright, don't be angry. Didn't you tell Tom to get it done in the first place? So, there's nothing wrong with him doing so. You should feel lucky to have such a nice and obedient subordinate who does what you tell him to do right away."
Toby replied with a snort, "Don't think that I don't know you're making excuses for him because you don't want me to take his behavior to heart."
Sonia stuck out her tongue without saying anything to refute his words.
Toby loosened his grip on his cell phone. "Never mind, I'll forgive Tom's transgression this time for your sake. I'll have him thank you in person some other day."
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