The Day I Kissed An Older Man

The new Holden Group building was designed and constructed by Newmoon Group. However, the company representative sent
an apologetic email saying Moon the architect would not be able to attend the ribbon-cutting as she was occupied. However, to
show the company’s sincerity, the president of Newmoon Group would attend on Moon’s behalf.
Holden Group’s directors were furious when they found out about this. They would not accept Newmoon Group’s president to
attend on the architect’s behalf. They even went so far as to think that Newmoon Group was cursing them to fail.
Jeremy did not believe in all that mumbo-jumbo, but as the president of Holden Group, he had to respect the board of directors’
wishes. Thus, he called Xante to let her know that his company would not pay the remaining balance of the payment unless
Moon went to the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
150 million dollars was not a small sum. That amount of money could spell the life or death of Newmoon Group. Thus, Xante
was understandably upset.
“Mister Jeremy, you’re being unreasonable. How can you threaten us with non-payment to force us into cooperation?”
“Who’s the one being unreasonable here?” asked Jeremy coldly. “You know what it means when the architect doesn’t attend the
ribbon-cutting ceremony, right? Do I really need to tell you what the news would say about my company if they get wind of this?
Miss Xante, I highly advise you to bring Moon to the ribbon-cutting ceremony if you want your company to survive in New Capital
City.”
On the other side of the phone, Xante pushed up her gold-rimmed glasses. “Well, you’ve certainly proved me wrong, Mister
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“I don’t, but it doesn’t matter as this is what many other corporations believe. I believe not one of them will do business with you
again if you insist on not bringing Moon to the ribbon-cutting ceremony.”
Jeremy hung up the phone after that.
Xante was speechless. It was not that Newmoon Group wanted to curse Holden Group, but how was she supposed to get Moon
—who was actually Corinne—to join the ribbon-cutting ceremony when her boss had been trying to hide from Jeremy for the
past six months?
It would be a disaster if Corinne was to meet with Jeremy again!

At first, Xante toyed with the idea of getting someone to impersonate Moon for the ribbon-cutting ceremony since no photo of
Moon was ever circulated publicly before. In other words, no one knew what she really looked like.
Jeremy had seen Moon once when he came to the company, but she was wearing a mask then, so he did not really get a good
look at her. What Xante worried about was that Jeremy, who was familiar with Moon’s work, would get suspicious if the
impersonator failed to answer any of his questions. Xante would rather not deal with the backlash if she could help it.
‘But what should I do now? It’s not like I can ask the boss to attend, right? That’s as good as selling her out!’
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Meanwhile, Jeremy walked out of his company building to attend an important business banquet. He pinched the bridge of his
nose tiredly after getting into the car. He looked like something was weighing heavy on his mind.
Corinne had seemingly vanished into thin air. No one had seen her, and there was no immigration or purchasing record or news
of her. He initially suspected Xante and Aaron were hiding Corinne. After all, even if she did not want him, she would not
abandon her old friends, right?
Thus, he arranged for his men to watch Xante and Aaron’s every move.
Alas, they did nothing to warrant any suspicions at all.