Chapter 154
Author: Mary A
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Antonio exhaled lightly and sank back into his seat when Sophie had left. He couldn't stand her presence anymore and felt suffocated whenever he even stayed in the same room as her. He began to play with a pen on his desk as he continued to wait for the goods that he had bought.

As he did so he also thought deeply and hard about what he would tell his people who were beginning to question him, he had put on a bold face in front of Sophie but all that he had said was not necessarily true, his mind was in a mess and all or most of his workers were now expecting money that he knew they would never receive, he didn't plan on giving any of them a single cent.

So he had to fix things somehow, the only reason why he had agreed to their terms at that time was that he was in different need of help and was focusing on one thing at a time, but as of this moment, his only real plan was to sever whatever it was that tied him to anything incriminating and at the same time keel all of the possessi
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