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Chapter 113 Feeling Defeated
Chapter 113 Feeling Defeated
When Blanca arrived at the company, it was exactly 8:59 AM, and she let out a long sigh.
She was almost late!
As the chairman, Matthew didn’t need to worry about the time. But Blanca read in the Employee
Handbook yesterday that employees late for work would be deducted fifty dollars from their pay, fifty
bucks! That was enough for several meals! Thinking about this, Blanca sat down at her desk. As soon
as she did, a girl came over and said, “Miss Gregor wants to see you.”
“Okay, thanks.”
Blanca sighed in her heart. Why did she always feel like a student who was called on by the teacher for
being absent-minded in class?
She took her badge and walked towards the office. As soon as she entered but before she turned
around, she heard Anna Gregor’s resolute voice, “Shut the door behind you.” So Blanca carefully
closed the door, turned around, and saw that Anna was working at the desk.
Anna seemed to be very busy. She was in a professional suit in the style of a capable and strong
woman. At this moment, she was gracefully leaning on the chair and staring at the stack of documents
on her desk. When she noticed Blanca, through those red lips of hers Anna said, “Take a seat.”
Blanca then sat down squarely.
She was sitting there for ten minutes, but Anna didn’t say anything else. Blanca felt like she was
walking on thin ice.
Was it about her work?
It shouldn’t be though. She barely did anything serious yesterday - all she did was read the Employee
Handbook...
Was it something personal then? This didn’t seem possible.
Blanca kept her head down and stirred with her fingers as if she was going to pull them off. All sorts of
crazy ideas were flooding her mind. She looked up to check on Anna every now and then. Twenty
minutes later, Anna suddenly put down the files in her hand. The files landed on the desk loud.
“Miss Gregor, is there anything you would like me to do?” Blanca seized an opportunity to ask. This content belongs to Nô/velDra/ma.Org .
Anna let out a chuckle, then glanced at her watch, “You’ve been in here for twenty-two minutes straight,
Blanca, have you got too much free time?”
“Me? I’m not...” “I” wasn’t that busy.
Blanca was about to say that she was new at the company and wasn’t assigned any tasks - she wasn’t
busy at all. But Anna interrupted her before she could finish, “Blanca, right? You are the chairman’s
wife, of which I think all of us are aware. But I won’t go easier on you because of that. You work for us,
and you are under my supervision here.”
“Okay.” Blanca stood up quickly like a student who did wrong and was scolded by the teacher with her
head down quietly.
“You’ve been here all day, anything you’d like to learn about? Ask away.”
“No, nothing.”
“...I’m having doubts about why we recruited you. Was it only for that you are the chairman’s wife?”
Anna seemed mad, and that made Blanca even more anxious. Blanca frowned, but she was biting on
her lips and didn’t say anything.
Blanca wasn’t a fool. She could tell that Anna was harsh on her, but it was different than the HR’s
picking on her. Anna seemed unsatisfied with Blanca’s work performance.
Even though Blanca wasn’t sure what that was about.
“Do you not know what you did wrong?” Anna asked.
Blanca nodded a few times. Somehow she seemed to have overreacted, so she stood there in silence
instead.
Blanca was typically a clever girl. Why would she back down in front of Anna? Blanca was feeling
defeated. Perhaps in a big company like this, a girl like her was never able to fit in as well as those
productive college grads did...