Love At The Wrong Table

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

“I’m sorry for being late!” Emmanuel apologized.

Milani furrowed her brows and stared at Emmanuel for

a while before roaring, “What’s wrong with you,

Emmanuel? I’m not here on a blind date. Why do you

keep showing up everywhere? Leave! I’m here for an

important matter today!”

With that, she wanted to beat Emmanuel out of there.

What I’m here to talk about today will enormously

affect my future! I can’t mess it up!

Suddenly, Emmanuel smiled and said, “It’s such a

coincidence! I’m also not here for a blind date. I’m

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Milani couldn’t be bothered by that, though. If this man

gets away, so will my chance to rise through the ranks!

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My mission today is to lessen the penalty the company

needs to pay!

“Behave yourself, Ms. Zimmerman!” Emmanuel stared

into her eyes and reminded her expressionlessly, “We

aren’t dating! What we have is simply a working

relationship.”

Tch! He’s so pretentious! Milani was fuming, but she

didn’t dare to show it. I know Emmanuel is a lustful

man! Otherwise, why would he go to the hospital to

examine women’s bodies? I don’t know how a

gynecologist became a representative of Terence

Group, but I’m pretty sure he’s just a runner working for

Terence Group. He’s using Terence Group to boss me

around! Ugh! How despicable!

Milani gritted her teeth discreetly before flashing a

smile. “I’m sorry, Mr. Lowe. I was too worked up just now.

Let’s have a discussion.”

Emmanuel couldn’t say no to that, so he sat back

down. After all, I’m here to make sure Cloud

Construction delivers the project on time.

Nonetheless, his ultimate goal was to bring Mackenzie

home to meet his parents.

“Mr. Lowe, what’s your position in Terence Group?”

Milani asked the moment Emmanuel sat down. At the

same time, there was a dubious look in her eyes.

“I don’t have a position for the time being. The

executives of Terence Group have appointed me to

urge your company to deliver the project on time,”

Emmanuel answered truthfully.

At that time, Mackenzie was his superior, and he had

never even been to Terence Group.

Milani rolled her eyes at him discreetly upon hearing

that. So is he merely a third party Terence Group had

employed? Is this his part-time job?

Regardless of how she looked down upon Emmanuel,

he still represented her client. Therefore, she couldn’t

afford to offend him.

“Ms. Zimmerman, on behalf of Terence Group, I need to

formally inform you that the project must be delivered

before the end of the month. Otherwise, it will be

considered a breach of contract!” Emmanuel was

concise and frank.

“Uh…” Milani looked troubled. If Cloud Construction

could deliver the project by the end of the month, they

wouldn’t have appointed me as the project manager.

“What’s the matter?” Emmanuel frowned slightly.

Although he was intimidating Milani, he knew for a fact

that Mackenzie’s goal was to have the project

delivered on time instead of getting paid the penalty.

Hence, Emmanuel wanted to know why Cloud

Construction couldn’t finish the project on time.

Milani’s ego wouldn’t allow her to humble herself, so

she uttered in an authoritative tone, “Mr. Lowe, perhaps

you could tell the person in charge of Terence Group

to extend the deadline by three months. Hm?”

Emmanuel was amused. Does this woman still think i’m

here for a blind date?

“Is that the attitude to have when you’re asking for a

favor?” he asked.

“Um…” Milani bit her lower lip. I hope you’ll be infertile

and never have kids, Emmanuel!

Despite her anger, she had no choice but to squeeze

out a smile. She even tried to seduce him by holding

his hand and saying, “I beg of you, Mr. Lowe!’ TO OR

with you on a date if you can get Terence Group to

extend the deadline by three months.”

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“Let go of me!” Emmanuel demanded coldly.

Milani was seeing red. How shameless can this b*stard

be? Before this, he came to look for me with his family

because he wanted to marry me. Why is he playing

hard to get now? D*mn it!

Although Milani was furious, she let go of his hand at

once.

“Why can’t Cloud Construction deliver the project on

time? What’s the reason?” Emmanuel asked directly. I

need to know the problem, so I’ll know how to fix it.

“Hmph! That’s because there’s a dispute over the land

itself! A group of thugs protects that land, and they’ve

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been

xg whatever is possible to delay our work, and

that’s why there’s a delay in the project!” Milani uttered

grumpily and tried to push the blame on others.

“Is that all?” Emmanuel was surprised. “Cloud

Construction is a big corporation, no? Why couldn’t

you guys deal with a bunch of thugs? Why didn’t you

guys call the police?”

“If it’s that easy, don’t you think Cloud Construction

would’ve settled the issue by now?” Milani scoffed.

As a matter of fact, she knew the leader of the thugs

was a ruthless man in Yeringham. That man had

already threatened to kill the project manager’s family novelbin

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members if the company were to involve the police.

That was why the previous project manager was too

scared to do anything rash. After all, no one would risk

the safety of their family members for money.

At that moment, Milani was merely taking a step at a

time and dragging things out. It would be nice to get

paid a few more months of a manager’s salary.

Although she could afford to drag it out, Emmanuel

couldn’t. “Bring me to the project site tomorrow,” he

ordered.

Milani’s disdain grew stronger. So far, Cloud

Construction had already sent out three groups of

legal specialists to negotiate with the thugs, but their

efforts were to no avail. Could a gynecologist possibly

solve the issue? No! However, this loser is representing

the client. If I don’t play nice, he can proceed with the

legal claims against us. If that happens, there goes my

reward payment!

Obviously, she didn’t have the nerve to voice her

opinion.

“I’m sorry, but I have plans tomorrow. I can’t bring you

there. Instead, I’ll get the company’s legal officer,

Sheldon Zophar, to accompany you.” Milani didn’t want

to go to the project site with Emmanuel. He can go and

mess with the thugs all he wants, but I’m not getting

myself involved in this.

Emmanuel couldn’t be bothered by what she had in

mind. All he wanted was to get to the bottom of the

situation and fulfill Mackenzie’s goal.

The following day, Emmanuel took half a day off and

arrived at Cloud Construction early in the morning.

Milani soon appeared with a man with glasses.

“Are you Emmanuel?” The man with glasses was

decisive and frank. “I’m Sheldon Zophar, a legal officer

working for Cloud Construction. Let me be clear about

something. I’m only bringing you to the project site,

and I won’t help you get those people off the land. The

leader of the thugs is Samuel Webber. He’s a big shot

in the underground circle. That’s not someone we can

afford to mess with!”

Emmanuel couldn’t help but furrow his brows when he

realized Sheldon was backing out even before they got

to the project site.

Milani initially wanted to avoid getting involved, but

she couldn’t stop herself from running her mouth. “Are

you seriously going to chase those thugs away just

because you were told to do so, Emmanuel? Do you

have a death wish? Must you risk your life for such a

paltry sum of money?”

Upon hearing Milani’s sarcastic remark, Emmanuel

mocked, “I would rather risk my life for money than to

be a free-loading coward like you!”

“You!” Milani was infuriated, but she had nothing to

defend herself with.

“No wonder Cloud Construction can’t deliver the

project on time. That’s because the company had

employed a useless employee as the project

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manager! Just wait! If you fail to deliver the project, I’ll

make sure you lose your job!” Emmanuel didn’t hold

back on his criticisms. With that, he left with Sheldon.

Milani stomped her feet in fury and cursed, “You’re a

b*stard, Emmanuel! Mr. Webber has a lot of capable

subordinates. I hope they kill you! I’ll dance on your

grave after you die! Ugh!”