Chapter 76: Love Moves in Mysterious Ways
Author: Nevertheless
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"What is that bastard doing here? I thought he was forbidden to step anywhere into the building! What's going on, Mr. Chairman?" I blurted, my deadening stares fixed at Dad.

"Watch your mouth, Mr. Llamas!" Mr. Cedrick growled back while pointing a finger at me which surprised my cousins. They exchanged intrigued glances with each other. Lucas lifted the tip of his shoulders when Mark Joseph fixed his eyes on him. "Know your place." he added, "You're just a mere employee in our company who we can fire any time."

"Of course, I am just a mere employee to you, Mr. Cedrick!" Clenching my fist, I hissed frantically, "But for the record, I am also the chairman's son and only heir of his empire unless he is going to give up his reign and let my cousins inherit everything he built for the past sixty years."

"What?" Cedrick and his father blurted in unison.

"Did you just claim again that you are the Young Master even if we already saw and met him at the family dinner?" Mr. C
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