Female Novel
Chapter 176
“President Morgan requested for my presence, so you can give him a call to get a confirmation fromhim,” Ian explained upon approaching the reception. A call was swiftly made as soon as the president’stitle was mentioned, which didn’t last for long before the receptionist hung up. While the receptionistdidn’t tell Ian to go upstairs, she told him to wait for a moment.
The situation confused Sophia as she observed Ian from the sidelines while wondering if Ian nevershowed himself in the company prior to that moment. She thus approached the receptionist to ask,“How long have you been working here?”
“Almost five years.” There was panic in the receptionist’s response when faced with Sophia. Shenodded as she figured that Ian wasn’t doing that great a job as the young master of his family, judgingfrom the fact that the receptionist failed to recognize him despite having worked with the company forfive years.
After the two of them waited for a while, a man who appeared to be many years Ian’s senior exited theelevator. He gave a noncommittal response upon seeing Ian, “You’re here.”
However, the man was startled by Sophia’s presence, which led her to sigh inwardly as she struggledto get accustomed to her new found fame. Meanwhile, Ian turned to look at Sophia as he introduced,“He is Sean Morgan, and he... is my elder brother.” The final part of the sentence sounded ratherforced, if nothing else.
“Hello.” Sophia nodded toward Sean.
“Hello, Mrs. Constance.” Sean was polite toward her.
“My name is Sophia, so you can call me just that. Addressing me as Mrs. Constance actually sounds alittle awkward.” Sophia chuckled.
Silence befell as Sean smiled at her out of courtesy before leading them to the elevator. Most of thecompanies had a similar structure to their offices, and the same could be said of the Morgan Group.
They went through the administrative procedures to admit Ian into the company at the HR department,and Sean told the staff to assign Ian the position of vice president, working alongside Mr. Zimmel, whowould double as Ian’s mentor.
“Okay, I understand.” Despite the staff’s astonishment, he nodded in agreement, while Ian wore animperceptible smirk on his face, which Sophia missed out on as she was busy examining hersurroundings with her hands behind her.
After filling in a form for appearance’s sake, Ian was led to and instructed to wait in a nearby meetingroom. The door to the tiny room was opened as soon as Ian and Sophia sat down, through which aman about Ian’s age entered. There was a sense of impudence in how he addressed Ian upon layingeyes on the latter. “Why are you here?”
Ian didn’t even spare him a glance during the ensuing silence, which seemed to displease the man ashe walked over to slam a hand on the table top in front of Ian. “I’m talking to you!”
The look of indifference retained as Ian rested his back against the chair, but Sophia was slightlyunhappy about the situation. “What are you doing? You gave me a fright.”
“You damn—” The man turned toward Sophia rather impatiently, but managed to bite his tongue beforenovelbin
he could finish his sentence as he stared at Sophia with much seriousness.
“Go on, what were you going to say?” The frown she wore was even more solemn than the one theman wore.
“Are you John Constance’s wife?” The man frowned slowly.
“Do you know my husband?” A scoff escaped her throat.
Such a reaction from her had the man’s expression contorted even further as he turned to glance at Ianwith a nod. “I was wondering why the position you are offered was suddenly changed, and I see thereason now. I sure underestimated you, Ian, as I never expected you to have ties with the Constances.A fine job you’ve done there.”
“Hey Ian, does your family’s company hire just about anyone? Didn’t you set the bar a little too low?”Sophia smirked while casting Ian a glance, which prompted the man to shoot her a glare, but saidnothing else.
The door of the room was once again opened within that short span of time to reveal a woman by theentrance as she looked at the arrogant man. “Simon, what are you doing here? Get your *ss out of thatroom to help with matters out here instead of speaking to some inconsequential brat.”
Dazed, Simon looked over his shoulder at the woman by the entrance. “Sally, Ian’s here, and he’sclaimed the title of vice president for himself!”
“Come here right this instance.” The woman didn’t even spare Ian a glance. Upon shooting him onefinal glare, Simon turned to leave them.
After the door to the meeting room closed, Sophia turned to meet Ian’s gaze. “These two—are theyperhaps your...”
He wore a smile as he said, “Yeah, they’re all from the Morgan Family.”
They were his siblings.