Chapter 186 - Tension At The Company

Jade strolled into her office and for some reason the atmosphere seemed weird and stiff. Jade looked around and every one tend to have some sullen look on their face. She had noticed that everyone seems to be on edge even as she walked into the company.

"What's going on?" Jade asked Sara in a quiet tone when she approached her desk.

"I don't know exactly, but it seems like something it's going on up there" Sara pointing up with her fingers, silently gesturing to the higher ups.

"Why do you think so?" Jade asked inquisitively.

"I don't really know anything Jade. All I know is the president is back and they've asked all departmental heads to produce...." Sara was still talking when a strange looking man walked to their desk.

"IJade Peterson, you've been requested to come to the board room" The man said. Jade looked up at him and she felt a chill run through her spine. She was sure she had never seen this man before. And why was she been called to the board room? She had no business there, she didn't have a good feeling about it.

"Okay" Jade nodded, as she immediately rose to her feet.

Sara who was equally surprised by the sudden summon pulled on Jade's sleeve, with a questioning look on her face, but Jade simply shrugged indicating she had no Idea what was going on.

Jade followed the man behind till they arrived the board room. She was surprised when she saw the person standing at the door...it was bitch Stephanie, who had a spooky smile on her face.

"Let's see how you get out of this" She said to Jade's hearing. Jade didn't like the words she just said neither did she like the look on Stephanie's face. What kind of trouble was she in? What had she done?

She slowly walked inside the board room and she could feel her heart race. She didn't know why she was being summoned, but the moment she met with the grim look on the faces of the people sitted around the table, Jade suddenly felt the urge to pee. Her palms turned sweaty and she broke out in a cold sweat, even though the room temperature was really low right now.

Sitting across the table was the president which she could swear she has never seen before, the vice president- Mrs Tracy Lin, some intense looking men and women, and also Cale who was standing at the side of the room, with a terrified look on his face.

"Good morning Sir', Good morning ma' " Jade greeted politely.

"Ms Jade I'm sure you're not familiar with the faces sitted across this table, but that's okay. We've only called you hear to answer a few questions" The president in a very calmly, but his tone was cold and scary.

"Okay sir" She replied. What kind of questions were they going to ask her? And why were they looking at her like that? Jade's heart was thumping so hard and she could feel her sternum hurt.

"Can you tell me who made all these designs and presentations" The President asked strewning a bunch of documents and files across the table. Jade slowly reached for them and picked them up. Her hands slowly quivered when she saw the contents of the documents.

She was so dead!

Slowly she lifted her head up to look at the people sitting directly opposite her, before her gaze to move to Cale who was standing right there with his head lowered. She returned gaze to look at the people who were impatiently waiting for her reply.. Although her reaction had already given them the answer they both needed.

"I'm sorry" Was all she could say. She didn't know what else to say at the moment. She couldn't lie, since she was sure they already had their answer before they called her. Lying would make things worse so she opted for the truth. She didn't even know what this meant for her? Was she going to lose her job now?

Just when things were finally looking good for her, something like this happens now?

"I didn't ask you to apologize Ms Peterson, I asked you a question. Who made those designs and everything written in those paper?" The president asked in a deadpan tone.

Jade lowered her head in fear and answered, "I did sir"

Seconds of silence followed right after her answer.

"Do you know what your actions means? I know this isn't against the law, I mean people help people, there's nothing wrong with that. But this....this is fraud, which you and Mr Stuart here carried out" He snapped.

"Do you know why people get promoted?" He asked Jade, but he continued without waiting for her answer.

"Because they deserve it. Because they've shown great prospects and have shown that they're more than capable in handling the task that would be awarded to them. But you from your tiny internship desk, you deceived this company into promoting an incompetent man, not once but twice, depriving others from the opportunity which they truly deserved. What do you have to say to this?" The man asked lividly.

Jade lowered her head on embarrassment. She didn't know what else to say. She didn't think of it this way at the time. She had only thought she was helping her man, but didn't see as though she was depriving someone from getting what they truly deserved. Right now she felt like she had aided Cale in commiting a big crime, one she had committed out of cheer stupidity.

"I'm sorry sir" Jade's eyes were slowly becoming red, but she wasn't going to cry. She shouldn't cry right now, because tears wasn't going to get her out of this.

"I truly didn't mean to deceive the company. I know I shouldn't have done that, and I'm sorry for the deceit.. I didn't know better. I'm sorry and I'll take whatever punishment you deem fit"