SWNOVELS Chapter 269: He Was Smug
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Ben's primary requirement to recruit a secretary was that the candidate must be a woman, and a beautiful, sexy, and young one.
By hiring a man as secretary, the HR manager had violated Ben's daily rules. Therefore, to be precautious, the HR manager took this opportunity to bring it up. If Ben insisted on hiring female secretaries only, he would have no choice but to call the unlucky male candidate and tell him the bad news after the meeting.
After listening to the HR manager's report, Joey couldn't help but ask curiously, "Since Mr. Hawk said that he wanted beautiful female secretaries, why did you let the male interviewer pass?"
The HR manager was a man in his forties. He was skinny, fair-skinned, and gentle. He calmly replied, "Because he used to be the chief secretary of the general manager of CL Group. His work experience and ability make him qualified for the job."
He didn't want the company to miss such a talent.
Hearing this, Joey couldn't help but glance at the HR manager. He was a good employee who sincerely valued the company. However, something crossed her mind all of a sudden. "He used to be the chief secretary of the general manager of CL Group." Was the HR Manager talking about Quentin?
What a small world! Joey couldn't help but sneer secretly.
Quentin didn't leave much of a good impression on Joey. Indeed, he had strong ability, but his integrity was questionable. Joey believed a man without decent integrity should not be entrusted with an important position.
Thinking of this, Joey was about to reject the proposal of the HR manager. However, Ben, who was sitting at the first seat on the left, said, "Since he's a talent, we should keep him. Our President Linderman just took office, and she happens to need a secretary. Assign the man to President Linderman."
By "President Linderman", he meant Joey Linderman, of course.
Although he addressed her as President Linderman, he practically chewed out those words, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
Of course, Joey could refuse. She now had the right to call shots in everything of Phoebus Company.
But looking at Ben's smug look, Joey smiled with a gleam in her eyes. She nodded and said, "Okay. I'll leave it to you. Remember this. If you have second thoughts when you see him in person and blow up the job, I will punish you according to the company's rules." Joey knew that Ben did not know that this person was Quentin. If he had known, he would probably have been the first to object.
The farce between Vivian and Quentin had caused an uproar that year, which embarrassed Ben. He hated Quentin to his guts and wanted to cut him to pieces. He tried to make things difficult for Joey, but he didn't know that the man he just helped to get a new job was Quentin, who had disgraced him by hooking up with his woman. He was making himself look like a joke.
Tomorrow, he probably would regret so much that he would like to put a bullet in his own head.
Joey found this thing just got a lot more interesting.
The meeting lasted for two hours. After the meeting, Joey patrolled in the company for a while and instructed her staff to arrange a new office for her before leaving with Philip.
When they left Phoebus Company, Philip immediately pulled Joey and asked nervously, "Joey, what was Ben talking about when he mentioned the photos and videos just now? Does he have something on you?"
Joey found her chest tightened upon hearing his question. She forced a smile and said, "Don't ask, okay? There are some things I just don't want to talk about. It's not that I don't trust you. On the contrary, because I care about you, I don't want you to know. Actually, it's not a big deal. I'll take care of it very soon. By the time, I'll bury Ben and those things in the past together."
It was a past that she didn't want to recall.
Joey closed her eyes painfully. She remembered how Ben had raped her in that dark alley in Thailand four years ago. Although it had been four years, the memory was still fresh. She remembered his every movement and every pain she had suffered. Joey's breathing was disordered, and her chest was filled with hatred.
She did not want Philip to know about this. She was not worried that Philip would look down on her after knowing her past because she knew Philip wouldn't do that. But she was worried that Philip would be upset. If he knew what she had suffered, he would feel millions of times more painful than her.
She did not want to see him suffer for her. If possible, she hoped that Philip would be happy. A man like him deserved to be happy.