Resign with Grace Return with Fire novel Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Sandra looked utterly disappointed as she fixed her gaze on me. “Fred, when did you become so scheming and shameless? You’re using every dirty trick in the book!”

The moment their own interests were affected, everyone couldn’t sit still and started protesting.

“Yeah, this isn’t fair to us!”

“This is a total fix-pure manipulation! If the result is already predetermined, why hold a bid meeting in the first place? Are we a joke to you?”

I looked icily at Sandra and Lester, enunciating each word as I said, “I won the bid based on my abilities. My conscience is clear. And the reason that you didn’t win is simple enough. Who would partner with a company that’s already blown up?”

Sandra frowned. “What do you mean?”

I curled my lips into a cold smile. “I mean that you’re finished.”

With that, I pulled out my phone and pointed at the latest headline. “Haven’t you heard yet? Your company is all over the front page because Lester faked the finances!”

“What? He falsified the accounts?” Sandra froze for a moment. Then, she rushed forward and grabbed my phone.

After reading the article, her face visibly darkened as her fingertips turned white from how tightly she clenched my phone. She handed it back to me and turned to pin Lester with an icy stare. “What is going on here, Lester?”

A flicker of diffidence flashed in Lester’s eyes, but he quickly steadied himself and stuck to his story. “I don’t know anything about this, Sandy.”

His eyes reddened as he spoke, and he turned to give me a wounded look. “I don’t know what I’ve done to offend you so badly that you’d do this to me, Fred. You even bought a fake headline to slander me just so you could ruin

me…”

Hearing that, Sandra immediately shot me a death glare. “How dare you spread rumors to smear Lester’s reputation just because you’re jealous of him, Fred! You never cease to amaze me in the worst ways!”

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