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Chapter Twenty-One: Return Of The Defeated Lawyer
Author: EL-ROI-U
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Jake paced endlessly in the office. Gabriella who stood right by his side kept batting her lashes while the head of departments sat there dumbfounded. They kept exchanging confused expressions at intervals but none of them dared make a sound.

It had been a full week since Kate Finn was discharged from the hospital but she hadn’t been to the company at all. The doctor had strictly placed her on bed rest which, even Vince had insisted she remained on.

For the first time in the history of Peak Hills, the CEO had called an all out meeting in his office to rant about their firm’s management.

Jake wasn’t capping any words. He pointed each of it out exactly as Vince had suggested. He made sure they had filtered out some truth that wasn’t supposed to be known to the CEO, but some that could have been assumed that a secretary could dig up.

“As I said earlier,” Jake said with a more firm tone “the company is going to be restructured and this will be strictly done on merit, which Miss Carris he
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