The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 1903

"It's good that she's safe," Charles mumbled and then told David to drive back.

"Mr. Lu, you're back!" Leila was the first one, who noticed that Charles was back. She was that attentive. She quickly walked over to greet him, beaming.

"Tell Wade to come see me." Charles coldly ordered as he walked around Leila and headed to his office.

Leila stayed in the Secretary Department once Charles ignored her. She couldn't afford to embarrass herself like that again.

David waited until Charles had entered his office before going back to his own desk. He was surprised when Leila blocked his way.

"David, where have you been?" Leila asked. She was so curious.

"Ms. Zhang, I think I've already told you this more than once before.

If you are free, you can go visit Mrs. Lu more, in case she thinks that you don't care about her when she wakes up and can't see you around," David sarcastically said as he looked at Leila.

Leila hadn't expected that David would respond to her like that. She was mad at Wade, and David angered her more, but it frustrated her that she couldn't retort.

Leila was seldom offended. She thought it over and realized that only David had the nerve to do that to her.

"Why did you try to embarrass me? What did I ever do to you?" Leila stood in his way, unable to control herself.

David was confused to see Leila acting like this. This wasn't the first time that he'd spoken to her like this, but why was she only confronting him about it now?

Since it looked like she was determined to get an answer, David looked at her scornfully. After a pause, he said, "Leila, I think you should look in yourself if you did something to me."

"David, you and I are the two people closest to Charles. If we can't get along, don't you think that's not going to be good for him?" Leila knew that she couldn't get to David by appealing to his emotions, but if she mentioned Charles, then maybe there was a chance.

"Our issue has nothing to do with Charles. Stop overestimating your job. If there's nothing else, please, excuse me." David didn't want to argue with Leila. He turned and walked the other direction.

Leila stomped out in anger because her plan didn't work.

In Charles' office

Wade kept her head lowered as she put the file on Charles' desk.

The look on Charles' face worsened as he carefully checked the file on the table.

When she looked at Charles, she immediately noticed the look on his face. She had to stop herself from gasping for breath. She'd already expected this, but still, she felt scared upon seeing Charles' expression.

"Who told you to bring this file?" Charles threw the file in front of Wade without changing his expression.

His tone was deep. She couldn't tell exactly how angry he was, but she could feel the tension in the air.

"Mr. Lu, it was the CFO who told me to bring this file." Wade hesitated for quite a while before answering.

"Get out now."

"Did you tell the secretary to bring this file here?" Charles figured the CFO was going to act as if somebody had taken advantage of him to get him to do this, so he got straight to the point.

The CFO sighed in relief when Charles stopped beating around the bush. He quickly picked up the file and looked at it. He didn't see anything wrong with it, so he checked again.

As he read through it again, his face turned pale. When the file was sent to him earlier, he hadn't noticed anything unusual about it.

"Mr...Mr. Lu, I really didn't know. I...I was careless."

"Who gave this to you?" Charles just wanted to know who was so bold as to do that to his face. It was such an obvious loophole. Did the guy think the boss was an idiot?

Did they think Charles being president was just a figurehead position?

"It was...Mr. Zhang." The CFO knew he had to do whatever he could to protect himself, so he said the director's name.

"You're the CFO and you couldn't even find this loophole? Do you really think I'm going to let you keep your job?" It seemed as if Charles didn't really want to give the CFO a hard time, but he had to teach him a lesson.

"Mr. Lu, I've been working here for more than 10 years. You can't just erase everything I've done based on this simple mistake." The CFO wasn't stupid. He knew what Charles meant when he said that.

"That's right. I can't fire you over this, but if you did this on purpose, what should your punishment be then?" Charles raised his head in an instant and stared at the CFO.

The CFO couldn't help but be frightened.

The CFO took a deep breath. What Charles had said really scared him.