Is It The Side Effect?

Amber is currently following Joseph in a meeting room for another contract signing.

It was a security system that would be launched in Celestial country and would be distributed instead to the other countries.

Amber have already checked some of the contracts signed within the company and somehow her face turned dark as she kept reading.

So this time upon knowing that another contract signing will be held, she had decided to tag along when normally it was just the general manager and his secretary who was present.

"It is my pleasure to have you as my company on this eventful day," Joseph had been trying to struck up conversation with her.

But she replied with only a nod.

She had already contacted Leslie regarding this matter and expects a reply after the meeting.

This will be the time for him to say goodbye.

For she finally found something that would cause him his job, the event today was just her way of seeing how it normally goes.

"Miss Wood, I think you are forgetting that I am the general manager here, I would like to at least have a proper conversation with you but you have been ignoring me all this time, don't you think that this is being a bit too disrespectful to your superior?"

Amber looked at him with a smile that didn't reach her eyes, "I'll give respect to those who knows how to respect. My front may be smaller than your secretary's but you had been staring at it all this time. Do you think I could still respect such a pervert person?"

Francesca frowned upon hearing her reply.

"Miss Wood, you really are being disrespectful right now, even including our fronts? Don't you think that that is no longer of work ethic?" Frances ca butted in from behind them.

Amber looked back at her, "Work ethic? I don't wanna hear that from you miss secretary. I think you of all people knows, why it is so."

Joseph squinted his eyes upon hearing a deeper meaning in her reply but before he could speak they have already arrived at the meeting room.

"I shall speak with you after this miss Wood," he said before opening the door and flashing his best smile.

Amber just shrugged as she entered as well.

The eyes of the two men inside instantly went to her and her face.

"I'm sorry for such appearance, my face had been disfigured," she commented before sitting down.

She didn't elaborate nor linger in the topic and her face speaks of them no longer asking anything.

This stunned the men inside for her presence seems like she was the general manager instead of Joseph Fox.

"Allow me to introduce her to you, this is miss Amber Wood, the new second in command in the company," Joseph introduced her.

"Aren't you lucky, you have such a beautiful secretary but now you also have a charismatic second hand. I say you really do love ladies don't you?" one man commented in return.

"Well, I suppose I really am a lucky person, with such company and such subordinates," Joseph smiled happily as he replied.

Amber started frowning.

"I must say your company is doing really well, in Celestial country once a company started it would take longer years before it could take a foothold, but your company is currently, hmmm, among the fourth level companies?"

"*laughs* You flatter me too much, it was also due to the hard work of the employees."

"I'm sorry but I am not his second hand, but the second in command in the company. I am sent here by the president of SNN Beginnings, so I accept order from him as the general manager but still prioritizes the company."

"And as I listened, I think your words are quite misleading sir, the company HIRED mister Joseph Fox, what he needs is to check the coming contracts and make sure that the company on this side is working just fine."

Amber finally decided to butt in, their words actually seemed like the company was owned by Joseph Fox himself.

"Miss Amber," Joseph said with a warning tone.

"Have I done something sir?" she asked in return.

"Anyway, shall we sign the contract now?" Joseph's mouth twitch as he tried to finale change the topic.

He was already feeling good with all the compliments but this person just has to go and ruin it.

He really will get back at her after this. It seems that she is forgetting who was the superior just because it was Leslie Lane who sent her.

"Ah, yes that's right, shall we sign now?" the man replied awkwardly.

Amber watched the exchange and just as Joseph was about to sign, she slammed her hand on the table.

"What is it this time? Miss Wood aren't you being too much right now?" he asked with a frown.

"I am not, I just don't understand sir why you aren't reading the contract at all?" she replied with the same intensity as his voice.

"I trust our partners, plus isn't t that the past contracts had been successful? The income was great."

"Great? Sir you really…."

Without continuing her words, she pulled the contract from him and started reading it.

The way she read was fast enough that no one was able to react until she once again slammed it down on the table.

"MISS AMBER!! YOU ARE CURRENTLY BEING DISRESPECTFUL TOWARDS OUR CLIENTS, WHAT KIND OF ATTITUDE IS THIS?"

"Shouldn't I be asking you that sir?" she asked in return as she returned in her sitting position.

She crossed her legs and leaned on the chair, her fingers intertwined as her elbows rest on her lap.

"The company is indeed having a good income but we would have even more if you just learned to read the contract instead of signing because of your trust," she started saying slowly.

Somehow the pressure she emits was even stronger than the man on the other side of the table.

He was also the president of another technological company and his pressure was already strong enough.

But somehow this woman right in front of him exudes even more.

"I say, SNN Beginnings origin was outside of this country, surely if you really check, the sell outside Celestial is much more than inside."

"And your point is?" the man replied but he couldn't help but swallow.

"You really are asking me that sir?" she couldn't help but laugh sarcastically.

"You may have tricked our general manager but don't ever think that you can trick everyone," she replied with a serious tone.

Something that even Joseph didn't dare to speak.

He was the general manager yet the she talks, speaks of authority.

Even Francesca felt very small for being there.

"Amber, please don't go out of line," somehow Joseph finally found his voice.

"Am I the one going out of line? We don't their company but they need ours," she replied.

"Miss Wood, I wonder what you are talking about?" the other man asked.

All along he was the only one talking for it seems that the other one was just his assistant.

"Green Software Enterprise, when I looked at your stocks, I have noticed that after the last collaboration, which was half a year ago, your stocks kept falling, am I wrong?"

The man looked away from her.

"The only times that it risen was when you had collaborations with us, so I suppose this next contract is your life line."

Joseph could only glance at her.

He had been attracted by her serious look back in the rooftop but the way she currently dominates, his become more interested.

The other man dared not to speak any longer.

"Well the contract you created speaks that the income on the outside would be what you'd receive and the income inside would be ours, even the bonuses. But let me tell you, income in Celestial country is just half of the income outside."

"It may not be visible when you look at it from every country's point of view but once added, the outcome is quite astonishing."

"The how about this way, since we have collaborated for quite a few contracts now, we can interchange the splitting," Joseph finally opened his mouth and said.

"Suit yourself. I just don't want for this to happen all over again, or I might have to speak with our president then, please do your job well," Amber replied before standing up leaving them all behind.

Joseph didn't dilly dally as he had his secretary reprint the contract and the signing was done within just ten minutes.

He was giddy to speak with Amber as he couldn't help but imagine her under him.

*****

"I need you," Amber gave Ashton a call right after coming out.

She started feeling the side effect already, the is why she no longer decided to argue regarding the pushing through of the contract signing.

Hearing the weakness in her voice, "Is it the side effect?"

"Yes, Joseph will meet me in another ten minutes or so, I don't want him to know about it nor for him to even get close to me."