Let Me Go, Mr. Harvey

“Miss Chante?”said Mr. Shaw with a surprise,”What’s wrong? Can I help you?”

Angela said with a fake smile,”Of course you can. I have been calling you and you didn’t seem to hear me.”

Looking more surprised, Mr. Shaw said,”Really? That’s my fault. How could I haven’t heard you?”

“I can understand it as for your age,”said Angela.

The implication was that he was too old to hear her.

Mr. Shaw was speechless.

“You must know why I’m here. So I’ll just say it directly,”said Angela,”How can a big company like the Smith Group default on the retainage?”

Hearing it, Mr. Shaw sighed,”I know it’s not good for our reputation. But we have a few problems in our liquidity recently, so we have difficulty in repaying the money immediately.

“In spite of my bad personal relationship with Miss Smith, the Smith Group can’t avoid cooperating with the Chante Group. Don’t you worry that it will affect the cooperation between the two Groups?”said Angela in a slightly louder voice.

Mr. Shaw said with a wry smile,”As you say, the two Groups have been cooperating for many years. I never want to damage it.”

“But we just happened to have a few problems in our liquidity recently. So there will be a delay in the repayment, but I promise we’ll finally repay it.”

“There’s only a few days of delay and we’ll even pay the high penalty and interest. So the Chante Group suffers none and even gets more. How enviable!”

What he said was all about how much the Chante Group would get.

As far as Salim knew, Angela had a good relationship with Raya and Sean. So he looked unfriendly to her.

“As you keep on saying the Smith Group had money problem, how do you participate in the project this time? As far as I know, this project needs far more than 160 million.”

Angela had no idea what project the two Groups were competing for and how much money that project really needed. She just wanted to induce Mr. Shaw to tell the truth by saying so.

Stunned for a moment, Mr. Shaw sighed heavily,”Miss Chante, as you just start out in the workplace, there are too many things you don’t know.”

“Brothers out afterwards. Every single amount of our liquidity is budgeted in advance and I have no right to transfer the budget for other projects.”

“Wouldn’t the whole company be in a mess if all the budgets for other projects are transferred to the one that has problems?”

As it was the first day Angela began to work, she did know little about it. As a result, she had no idea whether Mr. Shaw was lying to her and it was not the right moment to discuss with Adams, so she was speechless at the moment.

But it would be more difficult to see Mr. Shaw next time if she let him go at the moment.

Seeing that Angela and Mr. Shaw kept talking, Salim said impatiently,”Have you finished? If you are not going to the restaurant, I’m going myself!”

“Sorry, I’m going now,”said Mr. Shaw with an obsequious smile and said to Angela apologetically,”Sorry, Miss Chante. I have to go now.”

Saying that, he left with Salim directly before Angela could stop them.

Before they left, Salim even snorted at Angela triumphantly.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

Angela was speechless.

“Do you have any unpleasant circumstance with Salim?”asked Adams as he stepped forward.

Angela shook her head as she had only seen Salim once and didn’t even speak to him. She had no idea how she had offended him.

‘But he’s the cousin of Felix who has long-term contradictions with James. And I’m James’girlfriend.’

‘Perhaps that’s why he hates me?’

Stopping her random thoughts, Angela asked,”You have heard what Mr. Shaw said just now, Adams. Do you have any idea?”

“You want the truth?”asked Adams.

“Yes,”replied Angela.

“No,”said Adams, throwing up his hands,”This is the first time I receive such a difficult task even though I have collected the payment of some small and medium size companies before and could call the legal team to sue them if it couldn’t be dealt with by a phone call.”

Even if he had received one, he was the assistant.

Obviously, Violet wanted to give them a hard time by requiring them to complete such a difficult task in just five days.

However, considering the long-term contradictions between Violet and Angela’s father Lorenzo, Adams was not surprised about it.

Angela nodded as it didn’t make any more sense to continue to stay there and walked out of the Smith Group with Adams.

As they walked out of the building, they encountered a take-away deliveryman who then stopped his electromobile and made a call and Angela’s phone was ringing at the same time.

“Oh, you are right here,”said the take-away deliveryman as he found the order was right next to him after he spoke to the phone for a while,”Here’s the food you ordered.”

Right after Angela took over the food and thanked the take-away deliveryman, her phone rang again.

“I’ll take it,”said Adams as he took over the food from Angela.

Angela nodded and got through,”What’s up?”

“Why haven’t you come back? Where are you? I’ll go to pick you up.”

James sounded tired from the phone. But when Angela listened carefully, he sounded quite normal.

As Angela didn’t want to be used to relying on him, she said coolly,”No, thanks. I can take a taxi to get back myself.”

“Taxi is not permitted to get into the Bamboo Estate and Roland has said that you can’t walk too long during the treatment,”said James in a decisive voice,”Tell me your location and I’ll pick you up now.”

Glancing at the”Smith Group”on the building, Angela said,”I’m at the entrance of the Smith Group.”

After hanging up the phone, Angela told Adams that she would stay there to wait for someone.

Adams was about to leave as he wanted to get back early after a day’s work. But the next moment he changed his idea and said,”I’ll wait with you until the person who picks you up arrives.”

Fearing that Angela would refuse him, he hefted the food on his hand and smiled,”This is the first time we do a task together and you ordered the food for us. What’s more, as I have been in the company for a longer time than you, I should look after a newcomer like you. So I can’t leave you alone.”

“… thank you, Adams.”

Standing at the entrance of the building of the Smith Group, they talked in a desultory kind of way and as Adams was good at chatting, neither of them felt embarrassed.

“You can eat some porridge while waiting,”said Adams as he saw that Angela looked pale and handed the porridge to her.

He thought that Angela might have a stomach problem or got her period and had to have meal in time. But he didn’t ask her as it was not that appropriate to ask such questions at the first day they met.