Chapter 96 Floyd, You're Fired
[I'll pick you up tomorrow at noon. For the next two and a half days, you should have time to miss me, right? Eat well, see you tomorrow!]
Rebecca fell silent.
Her face felt warm, but Rebecca's heart suddenly felt relieved.
Although she hadn't seen him, based on her intuition, Frederick seemed unaware of what had happened at school.
That was good.
Although Frederick said he would give her everything she deserved during their marriage.
But deep down, Rebecca didn't want to rely on him too much.
"Becca..."
She snapped back to reality at Lucy's soft call.
Rebecca looked up and saw Lucy asking quietly, "Is the forum thing just ending like this?"
"Yeah."
Rebecca nodded, "Mr. Ryan said if anyone refused to apologize, we could file a lawsuit, and then whether it's detention or a fine, there would be a conclusion. But now it can only end here."
Even though she knew they didn't take it seriously, which was why they had that theatrical lineup apology.
But the fact was, this already counted as a public apology.
There was no point in her trying to dig deeper.
"Let it be."
Rebecca smiled and pinched Lucy's puffed-up cheeks, "In our long journey of life, this kind of thing is just a mud puddle at most. Sure, it splashed mud on our legs, but it won't diminish our shine one bit. Look forward, walk with big steps, and when we look back in the future, all this will be nothing."
"Alright, enough about that, let's eat."
The aroma was inviting.
Laughter filled the air.
Meanwhile, at Summit Law Firm, the atmosphere was unprecedentedly tense.
"During probation, you didn't follow your supervisor's work arrangements, causing work to not be completed as planned, resulting in irreparable losses to the firm... Floyd, you're fired!"
With one sentence from Joseph, Floyd looked up in shock.
Floyd had only just learned that the divorce case from a few days ago was specifically assigned to him by the boss.
But from start to finish, Joseph never told him it was the boss's instruction.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have declined it.
Joseph transferred it to Colin, and he focused on Rebecca's case.
Whether the client was dissatisfied or Colin messed it up, either way, this divorce case had now gone to a rival firm.
But this couldn't be blamed on him, could it?
"Joseph..."
"You don't need to explain!"
Cutting off his words, Joseph said in a heavy tone, "You don't have any other cases anyway, so perfect—finish the case you have, and then you can leave!"
With that, Joseph grabbed his briefcase and walked straight out.
His expression dark, Floyd turned back to his desk and started wrapping up Rebecca's case.
When questioning voices arose, Floyd looked up to see several colleagues with expressions full of schadenfreude.
"Mr. Ryan, what's your relationship with the boss? Why didn't he protect you this time?"
"Yeah, why don't you call the boss? Maybe you won't have to leave, and he might even make you permanent."
Floyd's hiring at Summit Law Firm had been through a boss interview, bypassing the normal onboarding process.
On the day of the interview, the boss decided to let him start working immediately.
Because of this, everyone at Summit Law Firm from top to bottom speculated he was the boss's connection.
For a month now, from Joseph to these people in front of him, they clearly looked down on him but carefully called him "Mr. Ryan."
Now that he was fired, these people finally dropped the act.
"I have no relationship with the boss."
With one sentence distancing himself from the boss, Floyd shut down his computer and left the office.
"What's he pretending for? We're all senior lawyers. He just worked at the Getty's Group for a few years—does that make him better than us?"
"So what if he had a high starting point? Didn't he end up like us, taking on small-time cases? No wait, from now on, he's worse off than us..."
Mocking and ridiculing voices rose one after another. Floyd pressed the close button with an expressionless face.
As the elevator doors slowly closed, Floyd slumped defeatedly in the corner of the elevator.
His classmates from the same year were all doing better than him now.
Even those who weren't as good as him back then had now become the head of Summit Law Firm.
But him? He kept going downhill, getting worse and worse.