Mr. York waited until the person on the other end of the line spoke first.
"Have you had lunch yet, Michael?"
Mr. York could feel the joy from Christian.
"If you haven’t, let’s go have lunch together, and I’ll pay for it. I have sothing great to share with you."
"Sorry, my boss can’t make it," Mr. York answered.
"Where’s Michael?" Christian was both surprised and confused as he didn’t hear Michael’s voice.
Hearing that Christian was calling his na, Michael pretended that he was drunk and said, "You useless piece of crap! I’ve paid you so much yet you couldn’t find the evidence? I... I... I just want to freaking fire you right now!"
Christian couldn’t help but burst out laughing after hearing Michael’s voice.
"Sorry. Is Michael drunk?" Christian faked his concern and asked. "It’s not healthy to get drunk during the dayti. Please tell him not to drink so much."
"Do you have anything else to talk about, Mr. Christian? If not, I might have to hang up now. I’ll tell Mr. Michael to call you back once he sobers up," Mr. York said coldly.
He was the assistant of the president of MC Enterprise, and Michael and Christian had been sworn enemies for a long ti. He knew that Christian would be suspicious if he was too polite to him.
"I just wanted to have lunch with my brother so that I can give him the invitation during lunch," Christian smiled and said. "But it seems that he’s too drunk to make it to lunch. How about this, I’ll ask soone to send him the invitation."
"Sure," Mr. York said and hung up.
Hearing the beeping sound from his phone, Christian mumbled gleefully, "How dare he hang up on ? He’s nothing but an assistant to my brother, and besides, MC Enterprise will no longer be around in a couple of months."
Both Michael and Mr. York smiled after Mr. York hung up.
After a while, one of Christian’s n sent an invitation to MC Enterprise, and Mr.
York handed it to Michael the second he received it.
The invitation was very well-made, but it was unlikely that Christian was able to make the invitation in such a short ti, which ant he had made the letter a long ti ago.
The letter said that Michael, the president of MC Enterprise, was invited to the press conference that was going to be held on the 11th of May. It also ntioned that Michael could bring a date to the press conference as well.
It would be five days from now.
In the anti, Christian also sent soone to send an invitation to Wendy, who was in Rheinsville City.
Wendy didn’t receive the letter on the second day. After all, it took more than 10 hours to fly to Rheinsville City from Lake City.
The invitation to Wendy also ntioned that she could bring a date.
Naturally, Wendy was going to bring Todd as many people had learned about their relationship.
However, Christian and Todd had barely t each other before, so Wendy speculated that Christian wanted to have Wendy bring Todd to Lake City and have Michael to Yonina to the press conference.
’Well played, Christian. Well played,’ Wendy thought.
The reporters would, in no doubt, ask a lot of questions when Wendy, Todd, Michael, and Yonina showed up at the press conference at the sa ti as the relationships among them were too complicated.
What was originally supposed to be news at the economy section would appear in the entertainnt section as well, and the article headline might read, "Michael Lucas ets Ex Wendy Stewart!"
....
Holding the invitation in her hand, Wendy pondered if she should go to the press conference or not.
She knew well what Christian’s intention was.
After a while, she headed straight to Timothy’s office.
Timothy stood up after seeing Wendy walk in. "Hi, Wendy! What brought you here?"
"Why? Can’t I co and chat with my ntor without anything happening?" Wendy said.
"Of course, you can," Timothy replied as he dialed his assistant using the internal phone, asking him to make a glass of fresh juice.
He then looked at Wendy and said, "I’m surely happy that you’re here to chat with , but I rember how busy you are, Wendy... And you haven’t co to my office unless you have sothing urgent."
"You know so well, Mr. Woods," Wendy said as she sat down on the couch before handing the invitation to Timothy.
She asked, "Have you received this invitation yet, Mr. Woods?"
Timothy opened the letter, skimd through it, and said, "The invitation to DR Group’s press conference? I haven’t got it yet."
He then frowned and said with dismay, "It seems that nobody even cares about , the head of HG Enterprise, anymore. They’re only sending invitations to you. I bet you’re who people think of when they bring up HG Enterprise now."
"What do you an? Are you jealous of your prot.." Wendy smiled.
"Of course not. I was joking," Timothy said, smiling.
He gave the letter back to Wendy and asked, "I bet you aren’t here just to show the letter, are you?"
"Indeed not," Wendy said and nodded.
She then continued, "I reckon that Christian has sent the invitation because of my past with Michael and my acquaintance with him, but what will other people think? If they know that Christian invited instead of you, they will think that you’re being disrespected... That’s why I’m here to ask for your opinion. After all, I’m still an employee at HG Enterprise, so I need your insight, Mr. Chairman."
Timothy burst out laughing seeing how much Wendy revered him. He walked to Wendy’s side and patted her on the shoulders and said, "I’m such a lucky ntor."
Wendy smiled at him warmly and nodded.
"I think it’s the best for you to go since DR Group has sent you the invitation," Timothy said. "And besides, I’m not close to Christian at all, so I would’ve asked you to attend that conference even if he invited ."
"But I still think that DR Group didn’t show you the respect that you deserve," Wendy responded.
"We’re both businessn, so interest always cos first. As for respect, we shouldn’t care about it that much," Timothy replied coolly. "I’ve heard about that bidding that Michael and Christian are trying to win, and I think the press conference is about that. It’s a huge project supported by the federal governnt. Even though we don’t have any subsidiaries in Lake City yet, it’ll only be beneficial to us if we can build a good relationship with DR Group. Fortunately, you’ve known Christian for a long ti. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have sent you the invitation. After all, there have got to be a lot of people trying to partner with him. There’s no reason for you not to go."
"But..." Wendy frowned, pretending to look conflicted.
"But what?" Timothy asked her.
"I’ll just co clean now. You know that there’s so drama going on among , Michael, and Christian. I ca today because I don’t want to go to that press conference," Wendy admitted and sighed. "I’m wondering if you can send another else to the press conference."
"Well..." Timothy felt a bit awkward.
He lowered his head, thought about it for a second, and said, "But it was you who Christian sent the invitation to. It’d be easier if he sent the invitation to HG Enterprise, but it would feel wrong if we just sent so random representative."
"But the second collection of Moonlight Project is about to be released. What if sothing goes wrong and I can’t co back in ti to fix it?"
What Wendy just said implied her real purpose to co to Timothy’s office.
She knew that Timothy would try to persuade her to go, so she wanted to push all the responsibilities to Timothy before she went to Lake City, then Timothy would be less likely to suspect him when issues erged.
"I’ll still be here, won’t I?" Timothy smiled.
To assure her, he said, "Just go to Lake City. I’ll take care of the launch."
"But..."
Before Wendy could finish her sentence, Timothy continued, "Don’t worry. I had been running HG before you joined us. Don’t you have faith in your ntor?"
"That’s certainly what I ant," Wendy said, sounding embarrassed.
"Then go to Lake City." Timothy stood up and tapped Wendy on her shoulders again."If DR Group was still struggling like they were before, I wouldn’t insist that you go.
But now, Christian has won the bidding, which ans his company will soon be revived and thrive again. It’ll be nothing but beneficial to us if we can establish a good relationship with them."
Timothy continued despite Wendy’s silence, "Could you go for the sake of our company?"
"Okay." Wendy nodded.
Timothy felt relieved after Wendy agreed to his request.
"The press conference is in two days, which ans I’ll have to leave tomorrow if I want to make it on ti," Wendy said. "Also, I want to stay in Lake City for a day or two after the press conference because I haven’t seen my mother and my grandmother for a while, so you might need to spend so extra ti on all the company affairs."
Before Timothy could reply, Wendy quickly added, "I reckon I can work online, but there is a huge ti difference between Lake City and Rheinsville City, which might cause so inconveniences, so I’ll have to hand over so important tasks I’m dealing with to you before I leave."
"No problem," Timothy said without hesitation.
"Then all good. I’ll head back to my office first," Wendy said.
"Sure. Thanks for going and I’ll see you when you co back," Timothy said and patted her on the shoulders again.
Wendy allowed herself a broad smile after leaving Timothy’s office.
After getting back to her own office, she started sending all the docunts required for Timothy to take over her work.
Todd ca to HG Enterprise’s office building to pick up Wendy after work, and Zen left the building with them.
After they stepped out of the building, Zen said, "I’ll head straight ho now. See you guys tomorrow."
However, Wendy called her once she turned around, "Wait, I have sothing that I’d like to discuss with both of you."
Zen stopped walking, turned back, and asked, "Oh? What do you want to talk about?"
Zen didn’t rember having many interactions with Todd before, so she didn’t understand what Wendy needed both of them here for.
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