The Woman From Hell
Chapter 1023

Chapter 1023

"I don't care what you had to do, it's irresponsible of you to leave your post during working hours." Jordan cut me off.

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I did not want to explain further and quickly apologized.

One must hold back one's feelings in front of one's boss no matter how aggrieved one felt. Never argue with one's boss and tell them that they were wrong.

I still knew the rules of the workplace very well. When Jordan was done reproaching me, he started punishing me. "You’re considered absent from work today."

I was just one hour late and he wanted to consider me absent from work? That was a tad too harsh, no?

He was the boss, after all, so I could only endure it even though I was dissatisfied.

After leaving Jordan's office, I received a call from Shannon. Clearly, this lady had enough rest and was now refreshed.

"Do you have anything going on tonight? Let's have a meal together if you don't."

I thought about it and said dejectedly, "I really want to go, but I may have things to do tonight."

Jordan needed me to be on-call 24 hours a day. He might suddenly ask me to do something else.

"Huh?" She was really bummed out. "What do you plan to do? I've already invited Nina and the rest to have dinner together. After that, we’ll go to a bar to have a good time. We just escaped death, so

what could be more important than being alive? Just stop giving excuses, will you? You have to be there for dinner tonight, okay?"

I helplessly sighed. "I'm not giving excuses, Shannon. I really can’t go. I'm working in Jordan's company right now as his secretary and need to be on-call 24 hours a day. Do you think I can leave?"

Shannon exclaimed, "On-call 24 hours a day? Are you supposed to take care of his daily mundane tasks like eating and sleeping?"

"Now that I think about it, that’s probably the case."

I was the one preparing all three of his meals a day. It was more or less something like that.

"Holy cow." She grew a little agitated now. "Why do I have a feeling that this resembles the plot in romance movies? Don’t tell me Mr. Fredericks has a crush on you?"

I nearly choked on my own saliva. After coughing a few times, I replied, "You think too much. I'm simply

short of money right now, so I'm working for him."

Shannon refused to believe it. "I'm not thinking too much. I just think this resembles romance movies a little too much. It's hard not to tickle my fancy."

She paused at this point, saying, "Oh right, when are you going back to Whaldorf City? You said you’re short of money. Why don't I get you some from my side?"

I felt a gush of warmth in my heart as I said with a smile, "No, I'm fine."

"This doesn't add up."

Shannon felt that something was off. "Didn't you say that you're married? Shouldn't you be returning to Whaldorf City to meet your husband? Why are you working in Mr. Fredericks' company instead?"

I did not know how to answer that question, so I avoided the topic. "I remember that I still have things t o do. Talk to you soon. Let's hang out some other time."

My relationship with Theo was too complicated, so it would be too difficult to explain it. 1

After all, I had just joined Fredericks Corporations. With the extremely capable assistant that Jordan had, there was not much official business for me to attend t o every day. I was mainly serving drinks, ensuring that I could give Jordan a massage when he was tired, and tell him jokes when he was bored.

"Ms. Lane, you need to go through these documents, look at the general content of the contract, and

arrange Mr. Fredericks' schedule for tomorrow." The assistant, Ms. Cally, was telling me about work.

Perhaps she had something urgent to attend to, so she spoke while checking her phone.

I asked, "Do you have matters to attend to, Cally?"

She nodded. "I need to pick up my daughter later. I need to be there ten minutes earlier. There'll probably be a traffic jam."

She looked less than 40 years old. I said with a smile, " You have a daughter? But you look so young. If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't think that you were already married."