Chapter 776

• " Oh honey" she replied "we both love you to death and understand. I will admit I wish you could be plugged into the family a bit more. I get that this is only temporary. It does make me feel so good to hear you acknowledge the fact though." She almost looked like she had tears forming in her eyes. Was she really this good of an actress?
• "So can you tell me what getting the project done early means for you?" she asked as she started pulling the food containers from the bag.
• "Well first and foremost it means a very significant pay bonus. I don't know how much until the project gets greenlit but we are not talking chump change. Then there is the fact that handling our first government project and being so damn good at it should get the company more work. My name being lead will also get some government type headhunters looking to scoop me up. The bosses know this so I should be able to leverage some pretty good stuff out of them. Assuming everything goes the way it should." As he was talking he tried to eat his sweet and sour pork with chopsticks but it always takes too long. So he grabbed a fork.