Chapter 45
“Being too confident isn’t necessarily a good thing.”
She glanced at the time and said, “The meeting is about to start, Mr. Kuntz. You’d better stop talking about these irrelevant
things.”
She turned to leave, but as Edmund watched her back, he suddenly said, “Neeta, stay away from Woodrow Hartwell.”
“You have no right to interfere in my affairs.” Kaneeta replied
impatiently.
“His intentions toward you are not pure.”
Kaneeta let out a laugh of exasperation. “Mr. Kuntz, instead of
worrying about that, maybe you should consider whether you’ve
gone too far yourself, to the point that others can’t stand it
anymore.””
With that, she opened the office door and strode out.
Edmund watched her departing figure, feeling a deep sense of
discomfort.
He waited for her to come to him and make up, but she never did;
when he finally lowered his pride and tried to reconcile, she still
refused.
Neeta, just how far do you want me to go before you’ll be
satisfied?
By the time the meeting with the client was over and the project matters had been discussed, it was already the end of the workday. Kaneeta left the company without so much as a glance
at Edmund, not even looking back.
Edmund was still simmering with anger when, just then, an
executive came to report something to him.
“We’ve tried to contact the Drayton Group, but they haven’t sent anyone to respond… Mr. Kuntz, I think the Drayton Group might not want to cooperate with us, the executive said cautiously.
Edmund’s face was cold. “You can’t even handle such a trivial
matter? Am I paying you all just to keep a bunch of useless people
around?”
The executive’s face stiffened. He wanted to retort that working
with the Drayton Group was hardly a trivial matter, but seeing
Edmund’s grim expression, he didn’t dare say a word.
Edmund was really just venting his frustration. Of course, he
knew that cooperation with the Drayton Group was extremely
important; if they could pull it off, the Kuntz Group would reap enormous profits.
But now, this bunch of incompetents couldn’t even secure the chance to work with the Drayton Group.
It seemed that all he could do was wait for Nyasia to get out of
the detention center and have her reach out to the Drayton
family.
“Mr. Kuntz, are you… single right now?” the executive suddenly
asked.
Edmund replied impatiently, “Why are you asking that?”
He had never made his relationship status public, so even the executives didn’t know whether he had a girlfriend or not.
The executive gave an awkward smile and said, “It just occurred to me–I’ve heard the Drayton Group has a daughter, Mr. Drayton’s only child and the future heir of the Drayton family. Mr. Kuntz, you’re young, accomplished, and handsome. If you could get together with the Drayton Group’s heiress…”
“Absurd!” Edmund cut him off sharply.
“I was just speaking off the cuff,” the executive said, forcing
himself to continue.
Chapter 45
“You may leave now.“”
The executive, as if granted amnesty, hurried out.
Edmund remained seated, his face tense, lost in thought.
After a while, he opened his computer browser and began
searching for information on Matthew’s daughter, the heiress of the Drayton family.
But there was almost nothing online about her–no photos, no information about her age, not even her name.
All he could find was that Matthew had only one daughter, his beloved treasure, cherished since childhood.
Moreover, when his daughter was very young, Matthew had already declared that his daughter would be the future heir of
the group.
The executive’s words echoed in Edmund’s ears: “If you could get
together with the Drayton Group’s heiress…”
But soon, he shook his head,
He couldn’t believe how muddled he’d become, actually
considering such a thing.
