Chapter 551

Mr. Ellison looked at Ms. Thompson and Mr. Kennedy with a cold look of disappointment. "What else do you have to say?" he asked. Ms. Thompson could not find her voice for a moment. Finally, she quibbled and said, "Trust me, we are close friends in private. That was why he gave me the things." Mr. Ellison did not want to listen to her chicanery, so he looked away from them and at Nicole in the back row. "What do you think should be done?" Ms. Thompson and Mr. Kennedy looked at Nicole with expectant and flattering eyes, hoping she would put in a good word for them. But when Nicole spoke, she completely tore apart their last fantasies. "After the bet is over, they should be fired," Nicole said. Mr. Ellison had heard about it clearly over the phone when Ms. Thompson and Nicole made the bet. So he nodded. "Okay." Ms. Thompson and Mr. Kennedy's faces turned pale in an instant. When they first came in anger, they had never expected things would come to such an end. They were still the