Chapter 2 - Revealing an absolute earthquake inside the gleaming corporate headquarters as a furious board chairman unleashes his terrifying wrath upon a snobbish manager today.
The polished marble floor of the grand corporate lobby reflected the harsh, unforgiving glare of the midday sun streaming through towering glass facades.
A heavy, suffocating silence had instantly clamped down over the entire atrium following the chairman's thunderous arrival.
Marcus Vance, the impeccably groomed thirty-two-year-old manager, stood frozen like a statue carved from pure, unadulterated terror.
His expensive navy blue suit and crisp white shirt felt suddenly damp against his skin as his arrogant composure vanished into thin air.
Just seconds ago, Marcus had casually tossed a dirty blue cleaning cloth onto the immaculate floor, demanding that the delivery worker clean it.
That delivery worker—a calm twenty-six-year-old woman named Chloe in an emerald green jacket—now stood completely composed beside her carton.
And standing directly across from Marcus was none of other than Arthur Sterling, the sixty-year-old billionaire chairman of the board.
Arthur’s charcoal gray pinstripe suit and signature yellow tie radiated an aura of supreme authority that commanded absolute obedience.
His gray hair was disheveled from his hurried stride through the revolving doors, and his face was flushed with deep, incandescent rage.
"Where is the person in charge of this floor?!" Arthur bellowed again, his voice echoing off the soaring ceiling rafters with seismic force.
The background office workers in their matching dark professional attire scattered like frightened sparrows behind the marble pillars.
Not a single soul dared to make a sound, let alone step forward to rescue Marcus from the brewing corporate hurricane.
Marcus's lips parted, but no words came out of his dry mouth as his eyes darted frantically toward the massive American flag nearby.
That flag had always stood as a symbol of corporate pride, but today it watched over the public execution of a toxic manager.
Chloe calmly adjusted her ponytail, her dark eyes remaining steady and unblinking as she observed the billionaire's explosive reaction.
She slowly lowered her sleek smartphone from her ear, having just completed the encrypted call that summoned the chairman directly here.
"Mr... Mr. Sterling," Marcus finally stammered, his arrogant voice cracking into a pathetic, high-pitched whine that sickened onlookers.
"I asked you a direct question, Marcus," Arthur growled, stepping forward until he stood mere inches away from the trembling manager.
"You run this flagship branch, yet you treat visiting personnel like dirt right in front of our national symbol?" Arthur hissed dangerously.
The tension in the lobby reached a boiling point, threatening to shatter the multi-billion-dollar reputation of the entire enterprise.
Marcus tried to formulate an excuse about company policy, but his brain completely short-circuited under the chairman's glacial glare.
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"Get your things, Marcus," Arthur declared with terrifying, quiet finality that signaled an immediate, unappealable career termination.
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