Atrophy of Love: Mr. Harris, Stop Fooling Around! novel Chapter 305

“Director, can you give me a few more days?” This was Sophia’s first time responsible for such a task, and she was worried that it would not go well.

Maisie gave her a side-eye and replied coldly, “Don’t bargain with me. Either you return this document to me right now and leave, or you get moving now!”

There was no room for bargaining at all.

Although Sophia thought this was an extremely troubling task, she had no choice but to accept it. Then, she excused herself from Maisie and headed to the finance department to find the partner Maisie had arranged for her.

“Thomas Zimmerman? Give me a minute, I’ll go get him,” a plump woman said to her.

The woman went to the office zone behind and tapped on a table. A few moments later, she came back with a man who was wearing a suit and a pair of glasses.

The man looked like he was in his 30s. With his crew cut, he looked like a proper, decent man. When he saw Sophia, he sized her up before stretching his hand out. “Hello Ms. White, I’m Thomas Zimmerman.”

When the woman heard his words, she looked Sophia up and down in shock as if she was observing a magical creature.

“Hello, Thomas.” Sophia returned him a smile and shook his hand.

Thomas nodded curtly and withdrew his hand. “Do you want to go now?” he asked.

“Sure.” Sophia did not want to waste another minute, so she left together with him.

Once the two of them disappeared from sight, the woman covered her mouth and ran to her close colleagues. With suppressed excitement, she exclaimed in loud whispers, “That young lady just now is Mr. White’s daughter, Sophia White! She’s so different from what all the rumors describe her to be!!”

However, some of them were not too surprised.

“Sophia was involved in the scandal with Charles and Leah. Have you really not seen Sophia’s pictures? I already recognized her when she showed up yesterday.”

“She looks the same as she does in pictures, but she has had a rough life. She was in prison for two years before this.”

“That’s right, and because of this stain in her record, the Harris family won’t accept her as their daughter-in-law. Oh, that poor thing!”

“Now that we’re on this topic, I still get scared when I think about Leah. She’s too frightening… Oh, lucky for me that she’s not my friend. I wouldn’t even know I’m being played!”

Sophia could hear bits and pieces of their chattering. Though vague, she could easily make a guess about what they were talking about.

If this was her two years ago, she would have slowed down on purpose to hear what people were saying behind her back, but now, she was already used to people gossiping about her to the point that she no longer cared anymore.

The two got into an elevator. When they reached the first floor, they bumped into James.

Seeing Sophia walking alongside a man he did not recognize, James frowned and said to her, “Why aren’t you working on your first day at work? Where are you going now?”

“Mr. White, Ms. Leadman arranged for me and Ms. White to head to Jones Group to do something,” Thomas replied.

“I see.” James had his classic nice guy smile when facing Thomas. “Soph doesn’t have any experience in this area, so we’ll have to trouble you to look out for her now,” he said with a gentle smile.

“It’s no trouble. It’s a normal rite of passage for newcomers,” Thomas quickly responded.

“I’m just worried that Soph won’t be able to handle the task because she doesn’t have a solid foundation. Anyway, sorry for troubling you to look out for her.” Then, James paused for a moment before continuing, “Oh, what’s your name?”

Sophia’s expression went cold instantly. The employees in the company were already upset enough with her about parachuting in as the chief financial director’s assistant, yet her father had to say such things in front of them. This was just making it worse for her to get around the company from now on.