NovelEnglishChapter 178
By the tLiam set the table for dinner, Jovie was already starving. She stared at Celena with a longing look and whined, "Mom, the soup that Dad made smells amazing. I want some…"
Celena gently stroked her hair and served her a bowl of piping hot soup. The three of them then sat down together for a hearty dinner.
Suddenly, Celena said, "I need to pop by the office tomorrow to make an inventory of all the destroyed equipment so we can acquire new ones. I also need to start the employment process to rehire new employees for the ones we've let go. It will be a busy day for me, so I think… you should bring Jovie out for the day, Liam!"
With that, Celena lowered her head and took a sip of her soup, blushing. She had intended to ask Liam to go with her on her errands, but she decided to let Liam stay with Jovie instead.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtLiam stared at her with a smile. He could tell exactly what she wanted to say. He put a piece of steak onto her plate and replied, "It's okay. We can leave Jovie at htomorrow. I'll go with you to work instead."
"What? What about Jovie, then?" Celena gaped at him. As much as she wanted Liam to come along with her, she was worried that those rascals would return. She wanted Liam around for protection, and she did not want to leave Jovie alone.
Liam considered this for a moment, then replied, "It's okay. I'll ask Calum to cby and look after Jovie for a while. They'll be fine!"
With that, he turned to Jovie and asked, "Jovie, do you want to stay hand play with Uncle Calum tomorrow? I'll ask him to cover!"
"Yes, please! Uncle Calum is so much fun!" Jovie squealed in delight.
The next day, Calum cover as planned. However, instead of staying home, he decided to take Jovie out to the playground. After all, they were still technically in the Stone family's territory, and thus, he did not want to get into any trouble.
Jovie naturally loved the idea of going to the playground. She skipped all the way from the house and leaped into Calum's car, her tiny fralready shaking with excitement.
Meanwhile, Liam and Celena departed to the factory.
The factory had not been in operation since the incident, and no one had cby to clean up the mess. There were toppled chairs and tables everywhere and leftover debris of the ruined equipment and machinery. This did not look like a functional factory but a garbage dump.
Besides that, more than half of the factory workers had quit since the incident, so there was barely anyone around.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmCelena was distraught. "We need to set up the factory all over again before we can reswork. If we can't set it up in time, the project will have to be delayed!"
Liam tried to reassure her, "Don't worry, Celena. Everything will be fine again in no time. There won't be a delay!"
At this moment, the factory supervisor, Thomas Lane, strode over. "You're here, Ms. Stone! We're still in the process of cleaning up. I'm confident we'll be able to get everything sorted by today. We didn't know you'd be coming. I wanted to invite you over once we'd cleaned everything up!"
Celena nodded. "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Lane! Have you started interviewing anyone yet?"
The smile froze on Mr. Lane's face. He sighed and replied, "To be frank with you, Ms. Stone, but we haven't had any applicants for the jobs. For sreason, a rumor has gone out about what
happened, and people are scared of applying because they don't want to get beaten up. No one is applying for the job vacancies. The worst part is, sof the higher management even put in their resignation letters tothis morning!"
The color drained from Celena's face.
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