Nothing Matters, except YOU & Me novel Chapter 99

“But…” Tilly knew that she was going to miss Myra a lot, but she also knew that what Myra said was true. She was just a girl from a regular family, and her pay elsewhere wouldn’t be as high as what Chase Group was paying her now. “You have to keep in touch with me, Miss Stark. We can still chat even if we’re working in different companies,” Tilly uttered.

For the first time that day, a broad grin surfaced on Myra’s face. “Of course.”

After that, Myra felt a lot more reassured—it was probably because she had gotten her hands on the divorce agreement. She started to let go of the Sunny Bay Project as she handed most of her workload over to Tilly. On the fourth day after Sean had left, Myra drove to the Chase Group building as usual. She led her car into the basement and was heading to her usual parking spot when she found herself distracted by the luxurious Aston Martin Taraf that was parked beside her. There are only a few people in Bradfort City who can drive a car like this. Since this person has come over to the Chase Group, he or she is probably looking for Sean. Is Sean back from his business trip already? Myra didn’t think too much about it; she simply thought that she would head over to look for Sean if he was back in the office. She quickly parked her car at her usual spot before she headed up in the elevator. In accordance with Tilly’s request, Myra had been slowly organizing all of her architectural design projects and other design collections for her.

Myra had only been organizing her files for a while when she received a phone call from Tilly. She picked it up with a smile. “Hello—”

“Miss Stark! Miss Stark! Ahh—” Before Myra could say anything else, Tilly’s terrified screams came from the other end of the call. Her screams were tangled up with a mixture of several men’s questions and growls.

Myra’s face fell immediately. “What’s going on, Tilly?!”

“Miss Stark…” Tilly was sobbing as she finally seemed to have gotten hold of her phone again. “Miss Stark, there have been some riots going on at the construction site. The foreman, Chris Harvey, would like to meet you. He wants to talk about how the workers have stopped their work; he also wants to ask about the workers’ payment. He said that Chase Group… isn’t paying them…”

Riots at the construction site? The expression on Myra’s face turned into a serious one. The Sunny Bay Project had been proceeding smoothly all along; she never encountered any issues in the past. She even asked the finance department about the workers’ salary previously, and they mentioned that they would receive the funds for the company soon; there shouldn’t have been an issue with their salaries. “Stop crying, Tilly. Hand the phone over to Chris—there must be some sort of misunderstanding here.”

Once Myra gave her orders, the phone was immediately handed over to someone else. Soon enough, a man’s hoarse voice came on the line. “Are you Miss Stark?”

Myra didn’t wish to delay such matters. She knew that she had to take things into her own hands, so she hastily picked her coat up and rushed toward the elevator as she spoke on the phone. “Yeah, that’s right. Chris, please help me to let the workers at the construction site know that Chase Group will pay them their salary soon. I’ve already asked the finance department about this. Our project can’t be delayed as Chase Group would suffer significant losses for every day that the work isn’t complete. The workers will have to go on with their work.”

“I can’t care less about your losses. How are you going to expect the workers to be motivated to work when they aren’t getting their pay?” Chris shouted aggressively from the other end of the call. “The company has owed us two months’ worth of salary. Do they not have enough money to feed us? My men and I aren’t pushovers! We’re going to bring this to the court if you don’t pay us!” His words were followed by the voices of a bunch of men agreeing to his statement.

“Please calm down.” The Sunny Bay Project would be completely ruined if such matters were brought to court, and Chase Group would surely have to cover all the losses. Not only that, Hart Group would probably put all of the blame on Chase Group as well. Myra took a deep breath before she continued and said, “Chase Group is a relatively reputable business; of course we would never commit such horrible deeds of not paying our workers. Director Chase has been away from the company recently and we don’t have the power to make our own decisions, but he’s coming back today, so—”

“I don’t want to listen to your bullsh*t! I want you here at the construction site now. Otherwise, I’m not going to let your young colleague go!” Chris’s aggressive growls came from the other end of the call before the line was cut off.