My Second Marriage with the Mafia Kingpin novel Chapter 347

Chapter 347: Welcome to Black Dragon Corporation

Ashley’s lips curved downward as she stared at the mountain of paperwork piled across the desk.

"What the hell?" she muttered, sinking back into her chair. "Did they deliver these to the wrong office?"

There was no way Lucian’s workload could have grown into a mountain this massive in just a few days of absence. What the hell were Gustav and Lukas doing? Better yet, what in the world were the employees of this company doing?

Just then, a knock sounded at the door.

Ashley looked up, but the towering stack of papers blocked her view. A moment later, Gustav stepped into sight beside the desk, a handful of documents tucked under his arm.

"Here’s the report for—"

"Wait, wait, wait!" Ashley threw up a hand to stop him.

Gustav raised a brow. "What is it?"

"Gustav, are you blind?" She pointed at the piles on her desk. "I think there’s been a mix-up. Can’t you see all these papers? Did someone deliver them to the wrong room?"

As far as she remembered, the stack hadn’t been nearly this tall when she arrived. She had only stepped out to use the restroom and check on a few departments. By the time she returned, her workload had practically doubled.

"Not at all." Gustav shook his head. "These are documents the master needs to review and approve."

SLAM!

"Nonsense!"

Ashley smacked her palm onto the pile.

"I specifically instructed everyone to deliver them in batches so you wouldn’t be overwhelmed," Gustav explained calmly. "If you’d been working continuously, it wouldn’t have piled up like this."

But Ashley had only been gone for twenty minutes.

Even if she was terrible at math, none of this was adding up.

Her face twitched.

"Does Lucian deal with this every day?"

"No," Gustav shook his head.

Relief washed over her, only for him to add, "He handles more."

Ashley’s expression froze.

"Since the master wasn’t well, Lukas and I handled most matters during his absence," Gustav continued. "These are primarily priority documents that only he can decide on."

Ashley opened and closed her mouth.

Slowly, she turned toward the mountain of paperwork.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught Gustav discreetly placing the new documents on top.

"He’s insane," she blurted out before narrowing her eyes at Gustav. "And what about you? Do you even work?"

Gustav blinked. "Yes."

"Then why does my husband have to work like a dog when he has a right hand and a left hand? His feet, his legs, his fingers—basically an entire army of body parts working for him!"

For a moment, Gustav simply studied Ashley, who looked one step away from marching to HR and filing complaints against everyone in the building.

A subtle smile tugged at his lips.

"Welcome to Black Dragon Corporation."

With that, he dipped his head and walked away.

"Hey!" Ashley called after him.

Gustav didn’t even slow down.

Ashley shot to her feet with a harrumph.

"Didn’t you hear me? You’re fired!"

Unfortunately, Gustav had already stepped out and closed the door.

Ashley huffed and glared at the paperwork.

"Lucian’s workload is double this?" she muttered.

She couldn’t help thinking about the same man she occasionally ordered to wash dishes and blow-dry her hair. Somehow, he always came home looking fresh and impossibly handsome.

Just because someone makes it look easy doesn’t mean it is.

First, it was a good thing Lucian had practically tortured her into studying in her previous life. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have made it through half of this.

Second... Lock this damn door.

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