Chapter 125: Calling Vespera
Grace managed to calm herself and was now eagerly watching with curious eyes as the chairman lifted his phone to his ears. She would never admit it out loud because she was a loyal and professional secretary, but she was bursting with excitement to hear how this conversation would unfold.
However, the woman became dismayed when she realized she wouldn’t hear the respondent as things stood. Grace was a resourceful, smart woman, though. To solve her problem, she pushed her glasses up before speaking up, "Sir, I believe it to be beneficial to the Awakened Association for me to silently listen in on the conversation. As the person tasked with observing Vespera’s son and his harem, I might catch something meaningful that would fly by your ears without notice."
The chairman eyed her for a mere second before sighing once again and putting the call on speaker mode just before the call connected.
"Miss Ashborn, it’s me. I hope life has been treating you well," The chairman greeted.
"Yes?" Vespera replied to his amicable, gentlemanly greeting with a single, cold word.
"Miss Ashborn, I know that you’re a busy woman, so I’ll skip the formalities."
"..."
Not receiving a single word this time around, the chairman fought a sigh back before continuing, "Can I ask what you know about your firstborn son and the recent developments surrounding him?"
For the first time since the call began, Vespera parted her lips to deliver a response that was more than a single syllable; "I’m spending a million dollars a day to fund a team that solely exists to surveil him offline, online, and on the awakened platform, so excuse me, chairman, but you’ll have to be more specific. If I begin detailing all my information—which is not something I would do for you, by the way—this call will never end…" She paused for a moment before clarifying, "Literally. I’m getting updates on the surveillance targets faster than I could convey them."
"Haaah…" The chairman was on a sighing spree today, it seemed. He couldn’t help it; this woman’s control freak nature perfectly collided with her mother bear instincts to create a true monstrosity.