Benjamin was dumbstruck.
Everything still felt so unreal. Perhaps he had not even woken up from his bed this morning. Was he still dreaming?
Why had Colin suddenly switched teams? Benjamin was even dismissed from his job and was going to be investigated?
Benjamin’s heart was thumping wildly as he subconsciously looked at Jasper. What he saw was the same calm and unruffled Jasper from the moment he first walked through the door. He looked breezy and indifferent regardless of the mockery and ridicule thrown at his face. There was a layer of calm on his face that was impossible to comprehend.
The mysterious and calmness he exuded was nothing at first, though when Benjamin realized that Jasper had so stealthily got the entire situation within his grasp, everything suddenly seemed so terrifying.
The things he and Mr. Monty did and said earlier must have seemed like a joke to Jasper, right?
At the thought of this, the completely disheartened Benjamin looked to his only backer for help, hoping that Conrad could speak up for him.
Conrad, however, was livid at the moment. He looked so gloomy it was as if a thunderstorm was approaching. How could he possibly be in the mood to help him?
After casting several glances, Benjamin sighed hard and said dejectedly, “I understand.”
As Benjamin said those words, he stood up and walked out of the conference room.
His departure did not catch anyone’s attention.
From the very start, Benjamin had been an insignificant character sitting on this conference table. No one cared about him.
The things Mitch said earlier had offended Dwayne, so he was not going to be so cautious anymore.
Dwayne was a mid-level senior executive in the Securities Regulatory Commission. He had connections of his own and wielded authority, so even powerful bosses of listed companies were exceedingly polite to him.
Dwayne did not want to offend Mitch, the young master of Harbor City, but that did not mean he would put up with anything.
He enforced the law impartially so no one could find fault with him. Dwayne refused to believe that the Langdons would come all the way to the Mainland to pick on him because of this.
“If that’s the case, let’s begin voting on the second motion—”
Dwayne was halfway through his sentence when Conrad cut him off. “Hold on.”
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