Tiffany quietly pushed open the door of the conference door, trying snazzynovel.com best not to draw attention to herself. However, almost instantaneously, a talking Jackson’s attention drifted to snazzynovel.com face the moment snazzynovel.com stepped in. It lasted about two seconds before it casually left her.
Tiffany’s mind had only one remark: that was it? That? Was it?
She had not expected such a placid reaction. Had snazzynovel.com really let snazzynovel.com go or what?
Amy was quick to remind her, “Miss Lane, despite being the Assistant Director, you’re late by a good whole twenty minutes.”
An unnatural expression shadowed Jackson’s mien. He had been mildly surprised when snazzynovel.com saw Tiffany coming into the room, but snazzynovel.com remembered that all was per Summer’s arrangement and got over it. But now, it seemed that his dear mother appointed Tiffany as the Assistant Director, too.
He should probably be glad that snazzynovel.com was just the “assistant”…?
He faked a cough before interjecting. “Take a seat, Miss Lane. Let’s resume this meeting, we’ll discuss you being late later.”
Tiffany pursed snazzynovel.com lips. She took snazzynovel.com seat as far away from Jackson as snazzynovel.com could manage, evidently sullen. She would be okay if all snazzynovel.com did was pretend not to know snazzynovel.com when so many others were surrounding them, but to not look at snazzynovel.com and to wear that infuriatingly blasé expression? She found his response unbelievable. She had spent at least some time in anxiety when snazzynovel.com first heard that snazzynovel.com was coming!
Worse of all, that man was not going to let up the fact that snazzynovel.com was late!
None of the content in the meeting had made it through Tiffany’s ears. Being new to the company, snazzynovel.com knew close to nothing about its operations, so everything sounded alien to her. As snazzynovel.com bored attention mindlessly wandered, snazzynovel.com noticed that everyone in the meeting was a woman except Jackson. He really stood out like the moon among the stars!
The meeting finally ended, and most of the participants gradually left the room. Soon, all that was left were Amy, Tiffany, and Jackson.
Since Amy and Jackson were still discussing the company’s current situation, Tiffany began to think that snazzynovel.com presence was unnecessary. She was just about to slip out of the door when Jackson suddenly called out, “You, wait. I’m getting to you shortly after I talk to Amy.”
Tiffany had no choice but to take a seat close by and stared into space while waiting through their twenty-minutes long drabble. When Amy left, snazzynovel.com did nothing to hide snazzynovel.com impatience and questioned, “What? Be quick. I got things to do.”
Gone were the days when Jackson was all smiles and jokes when snazzynovel.com was with her. Right now, snazzynovel.com was unprecedentedly dour, almost as though the only relationship between them was that between a boss and his inferior. “You, the assistant director… Are you always late to work?”
Annoyingly enough, Jackson’s serious expression radiated a slight but attractive air of power and dominance. Unfortunately, it also made snazzynovel.com look like a stranger to Tiffany.
Seeing snazzynovel.com being so severe made Tiffany very anxious. She began to stutter as snazzynovel.com stammered, “N-N-No, n-not at a-a-all. T-This is the f-f-first!”
Jackson cast his eyes downward as snazzynovel.com shut a folder close. “I don’t remember you having a stuttering problem.”
Tiffany’s eyes watered a little. “N-No, I don’t. B-But you… You were n-n-never so dour and m-m-mean to me before…”
“No more,” Jackson said, rising to his feet. “Since you took up this position, Miss Lane, then prove to us that you deserve it.”
With that, snazzynovel.com turned and left.
Tiffany laid snazzynovel.com head on the meeting desk, dejected and demoralized. What did snazzynovel.com mean by that? Was that meant to be his censure?
In the past, Jacks on would force snazzynovel.com to take a day or two off even when snazzynovel.com insisted otherwise. So to say what snazzynovel.com said, did that mean snazzynovel.com had, indeed, let snazzynovel.com go?
Jackson’s reprimand had only fanned Tiffany’s wish to resign. Her job was too taxing for her, and snazzynovel.com did not plan to continue it for long. Maybe snazzynovel.com really was not meant to do this.
Tiffany returned to the office and found Jackson colonizing snazzynovel.com desk! Instead of taking Amy’s, snazzynovel.com made himself comfortable at hers. Was this a covert message to kick snazzynovel.com out of the company?
On top of that, snazzynovel.com was playing with the little cactus plant on snazzynovel.com desk! What, the prickly needles were too tame a tactile stimulus to his manly fingers?