The Almighty Lord Caspian by Cath Nitfisch

Chapter 7 Transfer the Money and I Will Sleep With You

In the CEO’s office, Willow leaned back in her executive chair. Her eyes were filled with tears of frustration.

She was so furious about what had just happened.

She had gone to Alan’s office. However, he actually asked her to sleep with him in the lounge!

Otherwise, he made it clear that his investment was off the table.

Willow stormed out of the door. She would never allow herself to do such a thing.

Throughout her career, she relied on her own abilities to build her business. Similarly, Willow felt regretful.

Inwardly, she scolded herself for being so naive.

During her negotiation with Alan, she failed to write the details of the contract in black and white.

Now, she only had two options. She could either give in to Alan or watch her company go bankrupt because of a shortfall of eight million dollars.

She would never choose the first option.

However, was she really going to watch the company she had worked so hard to build go bankrupt?

As Willow was in a dilemma with tears streaming down her face, there was a knock on her office door.

Someone walked in.

Willow wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and tried to compose herself.

She suppressed her emotions and swiveled around to find that it was Caspian who walked in.

Willow did her best to calm herself down and looked up at Caspian with a smile. “Mr. Lynch, have you made a decision? Can you start working today?”

Caspian did not reply.

When he saw the tears on Willow’s long eyelashes, he reached for a tissue from the coffee table and handed it to her.

Stunned, Willow took the tissue and wiped away her tears, feeling embarrassed.

Caspian couldn’t help feeling sorry for Willow. She had gone through a hard time, and now she had to put on a brave front before her employees.

He comforted her, saying, “Although the world claims to uphold gender equality, women face more challenges in their careers as compared to men.

“Women are always tempted by honey traps in the face of financial interest. Ms. Stewart, it is admirable that you have kept yourself pure until now.”

she whispered,

guess. Seeing as your eyes are so red, I must have hit the nail

a smile. “Even an employee like you could guess, but I failed to do that. How

lost your way in the face of enormous financial

acknowledgment. Caspian’s analysis was in line with her

spoke to Caspian, “Why didn’t

retorted without hesitation, “Why should I have told you

response took Willow by

Caspian was right.

only paid him

no reason for him to tell

and continued, “Then why are you telling me all this now? Are you trying to

sat down across from Willow nonchalantly. “Consoling you is just one of my aims. What I hope for is that my future business partner

Business partner?

to

him a base salary plus project

going to offer him any of the company’s

down as he played with his phone. He spoke casually to Willow, “My rough estimate is that the company needs another 8 million dollars to complete the project. With your abilities and an addition of 2

aback

private estimates. She had never discussed this with anyone, so how did Caspian

aside and stared into Willow’s eyes. “If I invest 12 million dollars in the company, will you give

are you here to mock me? Do you think 12 million dollars is something you can come up with

couldn’t earn that amount in a lifetime. Even if you worked

only 12 million dollars. To me, it’s just a drop in the

demeanor infuriated Willow. She had never seen someone so

and humble young man. However, the words he was saying now completely contradicted

your day job and

Willow must have thought he was bragging by the way he made light of 12 million dollars. She was angered as she was struggling to

there were a few more zeros involved, he could afford it. To him, 12 million dollars was pocket

million dollars from my personal account. My condition is to exchange

down. She had always valued Caspian as a diligent employee. Little did she expect to

time and effort in promoting him to the position of project manager in the

had not accepted her offer. Otherwise, the company she built

Caspian asked again, “Ms. Stewart, have you

picked up a folder next to her and

busy and don’t have time for your

I’m not joking

talk business. You

was wearing a tight-fitting pink blouse underneath

up and down as she

opened her computer. She searched for the contract she prepared for Alan beforehand regarding their collaboration on the

she made a few modifications to the contents of the document.