Chapter 4 - The Terrified Apology
Close-up: Tight shot on the Mother's pale, blood-drained face.
Her eyes were wide with absolute, suffocating terror. To Elena, her daughter's innocent comment felt like the final, fatal nail in the coffin of her career. She was completely certain she had just watched her livelihood evaporate into thin air, leaving her jobless, bankrupt, and entirely broken.
Elena lunged forward, falling to her knees beside her daughter, frantically pulling Mia back against her white pencil skirt while bowing her head in deep, desperate humiliation.
"I am so sorry, Mr. Kane... please, she's only six, she doesn't understand, she didn't mean to wander up here, please don't fire me, I need this job—" Elena whispered in a frantic, breathless panic, tears of pure despair stinging the corners of her eyes.
Adrian stopped laughing.
He slowly stood up to his full height, towering over the kneeling mother. The warm amusement faded from his sharp features, but his piercing dark eyes remained strangely, intensely soft.
He looked from the trembling, terrified mother to the innocent little girl holding her gray stuffed bunny.
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The entire executive hallway fell into a dead, suffocating silence. You could hear a pin drop on the marble floor. The background executives held their breath, waiting for the axe to fall.
👉 Read Part 5 to hear the CEO's piercing, unexpected question.
