Come To Me (Amelia and Patrick)
Chapter 589

Amelia put her hands together on the desk and looked at Ryker with composure. "Well, you'd better think long and hard about it. You won't want to miss out on anything."

Knock, knock, knock.

Hearing the door, Amelia said to Ryker, whose mind wandered to somewhere far away. "Assistant Ryker, open the door."

Ryker was pulled back from his trance and forced a smile. "Okay."

He opened the door. The person behind it was well within Amelia's expectation.

She straightened up from the chair and politely greeted him, "Uncle Tucker."

Jonathan nodded slightly in return and threw a sidelong glance at Ryker. The moment their eyes crossed, Ryker lowered his head in reluctance.

At this, Amelia's mind flashed with a thought. Ryker was obviously not pleased by Jonathan, but there was not an explicit reason for an assistant to be upset with one of the directors from the board. She landed on the conclusion that someone behind Ryker must have a conflict of interest with

Jonathan!

Judging the power from both sides, the influence from Ryker's side should be a tad stronger than Jonathan's. Otherwise, Ryker, who was at the bottom of the hierarchy, would not have had the ego to show Jonathan his attitude and Jonathan would not have to tolerate him either.

The leader of Ryker's group had to be either Daniel or Kaleb. But what Daniel had was not as charming as it seemed since he had to rely on the support from Kaleb and the rest during his time at Apex Construction Corporation. So what gave Ryker the confidence to look daggers at Jonathan?

As she went through her train of thought, Amelia was able to decide without qualms that Kaleb and his gang was her archenemy at Apex Construction Corporation.

They would not do anything to Amelia for the time being as they needed an acting chair to be the scapegoat for the failure of this project. Amelia was only afraid that they would plot for her fall from grace behind her back after the matter was settled!

As for whether Jonathan could be trusted or not, that was still yet to be ascertained...

Wait a minute, why not make use of the tension between Jonathan and Kaleb to pin them down on each other?

Jonathan had always been on the weaker side in the upper rank of the company. If she gave full support to Jonathan in this period of time, Kaleb and the rest would double their effort in squelching Jonathan, and the burden on her would lessen and alleviate.

In the midst of her thoughts, Amelia asked Jonathan with a smile, "Uncle Tucker, what can I do for you?"

"President Ramsay, er..." Jonathan indicated subtly at Ryker.

Amelia pretended to not take Jonathan's hint and frankly said, "Oh, I see! Uncle Tucker is here for my speech, right? I've finished it last night. Wait, I'll give it to you right now!"

With that, Amelia retrieved a stack of paper from her bag and handed it over to Jonathan with a curious expression on her face. Then, like a little girl who was afraid of making a mistake, she said, "Uncle Tucker, can you help me check if the statements are coherent and if I've used the right words?"

Jonathan received the papers and said, "No problem. By the way, I'm here to inform you that the press conference will be held tomorrow at ten o'clock. Should we discuss your speech now?" Amelia replied, "Huh?" Then, she looked at Ryker and said, "Uncle Tucker, we'll have extra brainpower with one more person. Why don't Assistant Ryker stay and discuss with us?" Jonathan was stunned frozen, so was Ryker.

Amelia peered around the room to avoid showing that she had noticed the friction between the two of them. "Is it convenient for the both of you?"

"Yes!" Ryker answered right away. "I'm more than happy to stay and help President Ramsay."

Jonathan thought Amelia was awful at reading the room and a trace of frustration flashed across his eyes.

After conferring about the outline of the speech, Amelia stretched her body while said to Jonathan and Ryker, "Uncle Tucker, Assistant Ryker, the speech is now completed with your inputs. I'm getting a little sleepy, so can I ask for you two to leave and let me lie down for a while?"

"Sleepy?" The corner of Ryker's lips twitched. How could this woman loaf on the job at such a dire time!

Even Jonathan's face turned a little sour.

Amelia pointed at her dark eye circles and complained, "Don't get me wrong, I spent the entire night preparing and editing this speech yesterday. Look, my dark circles are showing too." Jonathan propped himself up from his seat and said, "If that's the case, then I won't disturb you from your rest."

Amelia yawned and gave a lazy glance at Ryker.

"What are you waiting for? See Uncle Tucker out for me."

Ryker peered at Amelia's listless face and nodded.

"Noted."

Before Jonathan left, he told Amelia, "President Ramsay, let me give you a piece of advice. For tomorrow's press conference, try your best to steer off the script as much as possible." Amelia put one hand on her cheek and asked, "Huh? Why?"

Jonathan could not help but scowl at her slumping posture. "Because if you just read from it, you won't seem sincere enough."

Amelia pouted. "It's so long though. Aren't you being a little too hard on me for asking me to memorize it all in one night?"

Jonathan lowered his tone, "For the sake of the company, please bear with it for a while."

Amelia reluctantly dragged her hand over and picked up the speech on the table. "Okay, I'll try my best then!"

Her impatient demeanour sank Jonathan's heart. Had he overestimated her?

It was Ryker's turn after Jonathan left.

Amelia's red lips curled, and her sluggish smile could have made hearts flutter. "Assistant Ryker, please help me sort out the list of major clients, sponsors, and business partners of the company and put them on my table while I rest. They have to be on the desk when I wake up."

Ryker looked as if he was hypnotized by the sight of Amelia's drowsy grin, his eyes unfocused and dazed.

How should he put it? He did not feel much when he first met Amelia, but after taking another look at her... Especially when she smiled, his heart rippled.

Amelia tilted her head and called out with a concerned look, "Assistant Ryker?"

The obsession in his eyes quickly dissipated. Ryker put on an upright expression and said, "What did you say?"

Amelia repeated to him in patience, to which Ryker replied, "Noted." Only then did she let him go with a sheepish giggle.

As soon as Ryker left the office, the smile Amelia kept on her face vanished in a second.

She did not tell Ryker that she had already gotten the relevant information from Daniel. She only handed this task to him to find out how genuine he was.

Outside the office, once the door was closed, Ryker turned to a quiet corner, took out his mobile phone, and contacted Kaleb.

Kaleb shot questions at him like a machine gun right away. "Ryker? I was just looking for you! I heard that Amelia just called you into her office. You haven't been fired, have you?" Ryker said, "She didn't fire me. She seems to think quite highly of me, actually."

Suspicious, Kaleb uttered, "Oh?"