Chapter 132 Boss Was Here
Soon, as the elevator ascended, the two came to the top of the building, which was the branch
of Kingston Chamber of Commerce in Emerdale.
As soon as the elevator opened, a man in suit and tie then walked up with cap in hand and greeted,
"The chairman will be here soon, Mr. Cohen."
"Fine." With a smile, Leo responded, and then waited by the elevator together with Nadine.
In a little while, Forrest came, with n and Justin following behind.
"Boss!" Said Forrest.
Leo responded with a thin nod, and asked, "Is Thomas here?"
Forrest nodded, "Yes, he''s now in the meeting room, and there are still five minutes to go before the
conference begins."
"Well, arrange two seats for me and Nadine. We are sitting in on the meeting." Leo said.
His words caused n and Justin to shudder. Looking at Leo with fear and veneration, they believed
that today would be the doomsday of Thomas.
"Yes, sir." Said Forrest.
Having a clear understanding that Leo had always been a man with low profile, Forrest knew that it
would be inappropriate to arrange his boss to sit inside the meeting room. He then suggested with
respect, "Boss, there is an office next to the meeting room, and it is possible to attend the conference
online viaputer."
"Perfect." Leo nodded, and then headed to the office together with Nadine.
It was more like a pce rather than an office — inside of the office, the whole ce was decorated
with numerous world-renown paintings and some antiques more than a hundred years old. For those
who were blessed to work here, the ce would give them a paramount feeling, as if an ancient
monarch working on his governmental affairs.
Leo sat on a chair ced centrally inside the office, while for Nadine, instead of taking a seat, she
chose to stay in a corner as silently as a shadow — she had ustomed herself to being subordinate
to her Leon.
Soon, the conference began. Through theputer screen, the faces of every members present were
clearly visible to Leo. These men, dressed decently and looked radiant, were all the bigwigs from
different cities, who gathered around today for a conference.
n and Justin were then seated as well, with Forrest sitting between them. His eyes ran over every
single member in the room, and, finally, with a swift and fierce look on his face, his attention was
focused on a man, whose name was Thomas.
Thomas, as one of the attendees of the conference, was shuddering out of fear, with his face turning
increasingly pale.
Since Darcey confessed his crime to the police and publicized the truth of 316 Event, the
whole inte had been heated for that, and for Thomas, it would be least possible for him to know
nothing about it.
As one of the initiators of 316 Event, he and Julton Pharmaceutical had thus been pushed to the
forefront of the controversy.
Forrest turned on theputer, and yed a video, inside of which Darcey was ounting the truth of
316 Event.
The whole meeting room fell silent. Each of the attendees caught her breath and could feel that a
repressive atmosphere gradually filled the ce.
"Now, maybe you should exin something about this, Mr. Reyes." Forrest turned off theputer and
said coldly after the video was over.
The rest of the attendees, within a second, then all turned to Thomas with sharp eyes.
For Thomas, his face turned deathly pale, his forehead was drenched with sweat, and his back was
soaked as if a drowned rat.
After a while of hesitation, he said, "I have to confess every wrong that I have done, Mr. Barker. But you
need to believe that I was possessed by Peter''s nderous talk at that time! I …"
"All we need is your confession." Forrest interrupted, and then continued in a chilling tone, "If you had
not been one of us, our chamber would have never involved your business no matter how despicable it
was. But sadly, the truth is that you are! You are one of us, and your deed is such a disgrace for the
whole chamber! How dare you do something like that?"
Thomas remained silent and dared not to respond.
"Thingse down to the point where you can''t stay with us anymore. Now, everyone, please vote on
whether we should remove Thomas from the chamber."
Without any hesitation, every members presented voted to agree.
Casting a nce over the whole meeting room, Forrest then said with resounding voice, "Now,
ording to the vote, I dere Thomas is removed from the chamber and
his intermediate membership is forever invalidated. Also, Julton Pharmaceutical will be banished from
now on. Dismiss!"
As Forrest''s forceful artiction faded, a death look spread on Thomas''s face, and his body was
twisting and trembling out of shock.
In fact, since the day when Darcey exposed the truth of 316 Event, Thomas had already awoken to that
sooner orter he would fall as well.
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His inner mind was filled with shock, fear, anger and a sense of reluctance. As a middle-aged man, he
had spent almost half of his lifetime gaining the membership of Kingston Chamber of Commerce and
climb to the position of intermediate member.
No matter how close it seemed that he was going to attain his meteoric rise, he was doomed now — he
culminated in failure and was deprived of everything that he once owned.
Indeed, he held a sense of reluctance within, and the reluctance was devouring thest peace inside of
his head.
It would be like shooting fish in a barrel for him to rise again as long as he could keep the intermediate
membership of the chamber — he might abandon Julton Pharmaceutical, but he would never tolerate
being expelled from Kingston Chamber of Commerce.
Therefore, Thomas, a pathetic middle-aged man, knelt down in front of Forrest and begged, "Please
show me some mercy, Mr. Barker! I need to stay in the chamber! I swear I will stick to my duty, and
shall never break the rules again!"
In the face of Thomas''s supplication, Forrest remained poker-faced, and all the rest of the members,
including n and Justin, held no sympathy for the plight of Thomas.
"Are you asking me to absolve you from all your sins? You have cheated in your production, producing
counterfeit drugs, poisoning your customers and even threatening their families. Why should I keep you
in the chamber giving so many evil deeds that you have done?" Forrest sneered, and then continued,
"No one shall ever pardon your guilt, Thomas, not even my boss."
Hearing the word "boss", Thomas was stunned, and the rest of the members were also overtly
shocked.
For them, the "boss" Forrest mentioned could only refer to only one man — the creator of the Eight
Chambers of Commerce and one of the the seven personages in Country X, Mr. Commerce.
"Wait, is that Mr. Commerce is also here?"
Everyone in the meeting room looked at each other, and discussed under their breath.
The ones who were awake to the fact were n and Justin — Mr. Commerce was currently working
abroad on expanding the foreign market, so it was impossible for him to be in Emerdale at the moment,
which meant there was only one possibility left.
Thinking about that in their heads, n and Justin, with their eyesight turned serious and
solemn, chose to remain silent.
Forrest sneered, walking down the tform and pushing the door behind open with strength.
With the cracking sound of the door open, everyone witnessed the splendidly decorated office behind
it, in the middle of which there was a man sitting on the chair.
Because the man sat with his back on to everyone, no attendee could either see his face or discover
who he was.
"Please make the final decision, boss." Bending down, Forrest said respectfully.
Seeing that, every other members also stood up and greeted loudly, "Greetings, boss."
Thomas then knelt before Leo and implored with a grimace, "Please, boss! Show me some mercy and
forgive me!"