Chapter 307 - A Leader's Task
Chapter 307 – A Leader’s Task
Aaron was silent. He stared at Daniel with an indescribable look.
"I want to end it all after I talk privately with Anne, I want to ask her one last time. If she doesn't want me, then I'm willing to let her go and let her find a love that isn't me, Daniel," he said quietly without expression.
Daniel raised a hand and placed it on Aaron's shoulder. "You can do it, I believe you. You deserve to be happy with another love, Aaron."
"Thank you. Okay let's go back to the office. We still have a lot of work to take care of," Aaron said quietly.
"Yes sir!!"
Daniel answered quickly and stomped on the gas pedal again and headed back to the highway, having stopped for a while on the side of the road after losing track of Anne. All the way to the office, Aaron didn't speak at all. He was confused by his own feelings. It was a feeling that tormented him deeply, a feeling he had never felt in his life. Loving a woman who didn't love him back made him weak. Aaron, who had always been the target of every beautiful woman, now had to swallow the bitter pill after being rejected outright by Anne, an ordinary girl, a simple girl who had many dreams. And it was Anne's simplicity which had melted Aaron Sean Connery's cold heart.
"Give me a sign, Anne, give me a sign to keep fighting for your love or to turn and walk away from you. Your silence has confused me all this time." Aaron constantly thought about Anne.
Anne's sincere smile when she was with him a few months ago was so deeply etched in his heart, especially when Anne was worried about him when he was sick. It was all of Anne's attention and attitude that made Aaron was unable to just forget about her. During this time, the woman who approached him was a gold digger, but Anne was different. Anne didn't see that, she was honest about who she really was. Anne's attitude didn't change at all. The girl was still the same, she still treated Aaron as usual. And what Anne went through had really left a deep impression on Aaron.
After traveling for almost thirty minutes, the car driven by Daniel finally arrived at Connery Corporation. When they saw Aaron's car coming, several staff, who were relaxing, immediately returned to their respective desks. Likewise with Marissa and Kimberly Henderson who were relaxing on the balcony where the staff took their cigarette break. They both immediately followed their seniors who would focus on work while the CEO was in the office. An act that was not foreign. In fact, the discipline of these staff was more alert than before when there was a female janitor who was quite old. She would bring a duster and hit people who were still relaxing during working hours when Aaron wasn't in the office. She didn't even hesitate to report it to Aaron and Daniel even though she was repeatedly threatened by several staff, who were younger than her and didn't like what she did, but the old janitor did not flinch. She was even more excited to do her job that was not included in her job desk as a janitor, until the news finally reached Aaron's ears and made Aaron give an award to the female janitor who was quite old until she retired for about four months ago as her age had entered the maximum limit for work. After the woman retired, the stubborn staff had nothing to do with her anymore. They seemed to have agreed and covered each other when Aaron wasn't around, to steal time during recess as they just did this morning.
But actually, without the knowledge of all the stubborn staff, Aaron saw whatever they were doing, because he installed several CCTV backups in various angles that were not known to his staff. So he could see who was really working and who was only kissing his butt. Daniel had actually asked Aaron to take firm action against those undisciplined workers. But Aaron was still giving them a chance and waiting for the right time to take actions on them and it looked like Aaron would take action this time. The reason was that, since entering the company area, he had not taken his eyes off the monitor screen that displayed the situation in the office, where currently many staff were relaxing while chatting with each other, even though there was still a lot of work that must be done immediately. Aaron, who had seen the stubborn staff many times, immediately contacted one of the human resources department staff to come to his office right now. Daniel, who did not know what Aaron was doing, was still focused on parking the vehicle properly in an area specially allocated for Aaron's parking area.
"I'm hungry, I want to go to the cafeteria for a bit," Daniel said quietly as Aaron got out of the car.
"I'm with you."
Daniel, who was putting his cell phone in his shirt, immediately turned to Aaron. "Did I mishear you?"
"No, I also want to buy some snacks before work," Aaron replied casually and walked towards the elevator to go up to the 3rd floor where the employee cafeteria was located.
Daniel raised an eyebrow at Aaron's words. He really couldn't believe he saw Aaron going to the employee cafeteria at this early in the morning, where usually before lunchtime the cafeteria staff would be very busy preparing food, so the atmosphere in the cafeteria would definitely be very crowded and there would be a lot of smoke produced from the chefs' frying pans.
"Come on, Daniel!!!" Called Aaron from inside the elevator.
"I'm coming."
Daniel ran and immediately pressed the number 3 button as soon as he entered the elevator. Aaron was still silent while folding his arms across his chest. He didn't say anything which made Daniel feel like something big was going on. After the elevator stopped on the 3rd floor, Aaron and Daniel went straight out. They walked towards the cafeteria which was very noisy.
"Are you sure you want to go inside?" Daniel asked Aaron quietly as he stopped in front of the cafeteria's main door.
"How many chefs do we have in this company?" Aaron asked flatly.
"According to the latest data that I know, we have 1 head chef and 5 chefs and several assistants, so the number of people working in this cafeteria is around 15 people. That includes the dishwasher and janitor," Daniel answered quickly.
Aaron nodded his head with a strange smile that adorned his handsome face. Without a word, Aaron walked to the vending machine to buy a soft drink that was displayed on the machine. Even though Aaron was the owner of the company, he still paid when he wanted to buy drinks at the vending machine provided by his business partner who sold the soda, when in fact he could just swiped his identity card into the sensor on the vending machine so he didn't to pay. But Aaron didn't want to do that, he knew that the partner who provided the vending machine needed money so he didn't want to take advantage of it. For him, business was business.
"Here," Aaron said quietly as he handed Daniel a can of soda.
"Thanks… but, hey, where are you going?!" Daniel immediately shouted loudly when he saw Aaron suddenly walk again towards the elevator.
"Doing my job as head of this company," he answered quietly without turning to look at Daniel, the can of soda in Aaron's hand was not intact. The tight grip on the soda can caused by Aaron's fingers could clearly be seen.