“Oh! Mr. Kane. Please sit.” Anderson Morning, his boss at EasyWay Logistics, gestured his hand to the chair opposite his table.“Thank you, sir.” Abel bowed slightly, then he grabbed a seat.“I didn’t know you would come see me today,” Anderson asked.Being the boss, he hardly left his office during work hours. He had his delivery men go deliver different packages to the right places while he only monitored how they were doing it from their company app. Seeing Abel come to see him was unusual.“Is there any problem with the bike?”“No, sir,” Abel said. His voice was low.“Ahem!” He cleared his throat.He was the employee who never liked asking for favors. He never did. But his mother’s life was too important for his pride to get in the way.“Sir, please… I need to ask you for a favor.”“Okay?” Anderson furrowed his brow.“It’s my mother.” His voice cracked. He swallowed hard, trying to hold himself together.“She’s seriously sick. The doctor said she needs emergency surgery, and I nee

“Where the fuck are you?!”“I’m starving, you bastard!!”“Come home right away or I’ll report you to my dad?!”Abel read every message that popped up on his phone screen. He furrowed his brows.His hands were steady, but his heart was still heavy.He sat in the waiting room, his eyes looking up at intervals toward the surgical room. Everything that concerned him right now was seeing the doctor come through the hallway and tell him his mother’s surgery was successful.“I will come whenever I am ready to.” He punched his phone screen and hit his hand on the send button.***On the other side of the city, Adora’s jaw dropped.“This bastard. He is snubbing me now because I won’t lend him the money?!”She scoffed.Instantly, she breathed heavily. She fumbled with her hands and dug into the grilled fillet mignon right in front of her.Three hours ago, she’d ordered her private chefs to cook since Abel was not around to do it.Nevertheless, she’d always wanted Abel to do her cooking. Not bec

Adora knocked on the door. Immediately after sending the text to Tyler, she’d gotten out of bed and made her way there.“Adora.” Tyler called, a small smile appearing on his face as he opened the door.“You came too quickly,” he added, standing in the way.“Well, I wouldn’t if he had come home and attended to my needs like the dog he is.” she hissed.She pushed Tyler in as she stepped inside and closed the door behind her.Eight years ago, Adora had developed a crush on Tyler. She’d approached him by herself and asked him on a date.Tyler, a scientist and developer, CEO of Tyler and Co. Companies had accepted to date Adora and see where the relationship led until one evening.Marvin came back home with bad news. Adora was to wed the name of the person in her grandfather’s will.She fought it, but her will was not enough to overturn Marvin’s decision. She married Abel out of obedience, and ever since then, she hated him like shit, cheating on him with Tyler on the side.“You want a dri

“What?” the junior executive asked.“What are you gonna do, huh? Beat me?” He poked his finger on Abel’s chest and began to hit him in the chest.Suddenly, he grabbed his shirt and pulled him closer. He leaned his mouth to his ear and whispered.“You are a nobody. People like you don’t get even the slightest opportunity to enter a place like this. Now, if you know what’s good for you, leave before I make a scapegoat of you.”“No!” Abel sounded confident.“What?” the junior executive blurted.Threatening Abel, he expected him to get scared and scram out of the building. Ten days ago, a bookkeeper had walked into the building. He’d claimed to want to partner with Northwest Energy by sending the best technical books to read to up their game.Personally, he had grabbed him by his shirt and threatened him away. Before he blinked, the bookkeeper had made a run for it.But this man, this wrecked man who called himself Abel Kane, just said no to him.Worse, he said it confidently.The junior

The HR manager of Northwest Energy controlled the affairs of all employees in the company. As part of his duties, he had the authority to hire and fire employees.Standing in the lobby, he scanned the area.The receptionist’s heart pounded.More often than not, the HR manager always sent the General HR Assistant Manager to the ground floor. He had never had to come down himself. He only needed to come down whenever he needed to enforce a new policy concerning the code of conduct of the company.But right now, he was there in person.Which meant one thing.A higher authority had sent him on an errand.Her fingers raced rapidly across the keyboard. Her eyes remained fixed on the screen, pretending to work diligently. But if she thought that could deceive the HR manager even a little, she was wrong.“You.” He pointed at her.“Call the junior executive for me right away.”The receptionist’s heart pounded even harder.Asking her to call the junior executive, she knew it. This was nothing m