Secrets and Things (MxM)

Chapter 50 - Can you just fire me already?

Aiden slowly turned back to face the man with a look of vexation. "Are you seriously blackmailing us again?"

The assistant whipped his head to his boss and his mouth was slightly ajar and the other two were already frozen in befuddlement from the beginning. Fonzo ignored all the stares except Aiden's and crossed his arms over his chest. "Am I?"

Aiden's mind went into overdrive. He's bluffing. He wouldn't tell. He wouldn't dog. He gave us his words. He's also best friend's with Leo and he tends to have a good eye for people. But then again, this fucker is only loyal to the people he likes. And I already fucked that up in the initial meeting. So maybe he will snitch and everything we worked for will be gone. Just like that. His mind wasn't getting him anywhere, so he just growled back, "you're an asshole."

"Aiden!" "Hey!" this was from Enji and Will respectively, who finally snapped out of it and were simultaneously apologising to Mr. Fonzo and scolding Aiden further. The blue-haired man gave no fucks and zoned them out to continue glaring at his nemesis.

Erwin, instead of taking the obvious bait, just laughed at the comment and concluded that this conversation was over. His face turned back to professional and serious and formally stated, "Now that we got introductions and resolved all the issues–"

"No we didn't. I was forced into silence," Aiden interrupted grumpily.

"... as I was saying, issues are resolved so if can finally get to the crux of everything. We're not understaffed but I believe we don't have any employees who are qualified enough to fix the issues we've been coming across or come up with any unique ideas to handle certain situations. I'm not undermining the capabilities of my own employees but they were never trained for the things we've been coming across, so I asked for help from you guys. I'm hoping you guys could help us through this, even though it's not for your own company. Even if you can't, that's completely understandable and I will not be angered because of it. The final thing to address is that anything learnt within these walls, stay within these walls. It's risky putting such trust in strangers, especially from some other big name company but I really could not have thought of any other solution. Well, my assistant couldn't. I was actually against this entire thing. Anyway, you guys have signed the contract before coming here, yes?"

"Yes, sir. Our boss has it with him and he said he will personally give it to you," said Will in an enthusiastic tone. It's so over the top that Aiden can't stop himself from gagging internally. He swore that Shinsou did the same but it was so quick, it could be considered the trick of the light.

"Excellent. I have a meeting pretty soon so I'll quickly finish everything I need to say before departing. Among the three of you, who's considered the best?"

The new employees all looked at each other before Enji shrugged and answered, "We're not sure. We are all from different departments and we met each other for the first time today. I guess you could say we're the best at what we specialise in our own company."

"Hmm, ok in that case, who's the best at advertising here?"

"That would be me, sir." Will put his hand up and stepped a tiny bit forward.

"Great, go to the receptionist and tell them who you are, where you're from and that you're here to join the advertising team. The manager over there knows what's going on so he'll guide you from there."

"Sure!" He basically skipped his way to the receptionist desk and Aiden immediately thought simp.

"Now, between the two of you, who's knowledgeable on IT and tech parts?"

"That would be me, sir," Enji proudly declared. However, Aiden also announced, "I mean, I'm also pretty knowledgeable on that stuff as well. Considering how I build my own prototype drones and toys."