Glenda hurriedly calmed him and sat him down.
Mr. McDaniel sneered, "You're going to fire employees who despise you? Are you going to fire all of them? I know how you are doing at the company. You don’t have any achievement. The employees say you're an idiot. Because we have some great employees and the help of the Flint Cooperation, I never blamed you. I've ignored the complaints people have made about you. I know you're an idiot. Now you want to fire my staff? Let me tell you something: If you want to fire employees who look down on you, you'll have to fire half the workforce. Who's going to work for the company? Can you do it alone?"
Clay muttered, "I'm not an idiot..."
"You are, but you won't admit it." Mr. McDaniel grunted, "I had given you instructions, but you ignored my instructions and did it your way. In the end, you screwed up. Don't you think you're an idiot?"
"I'm not an idiot! I didn't do anything wrong. It's Sydney's fault. I had a plan, but she didn't react according to my plan. That woman is so stubborn. If it had been another woman, considering our family is so close to the Flint family and you are Julien's mentor, she would have forgiven us and put in a good word for us to Julien without us apologizing to her. And she should do her best to get our acknowledgement, but she's a stupid woman,"Clay complained.
He didn't think he had done anything wrong. He believed Sydney should forgive them no matter what they did.
He didn't understand that Sydney didn't owe them anything and that she wouldn't curry favor with them.
In Clay's opinion, it was Sydney's fault that she didn’t forgive them or please them.
Sydney was to blame.
In fact, Mr. McDaniel also thought that Sydney should forgive them without their apology. But since he was older than Clay, he was more thoughtful.
Even if he had the same idea in mind, he wouldn't say it outright. He narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "She can be arrogant. She didn't know if Julien valued me or her more until they knew what Erin had done. She could have ingratiated herself with us before she knew that. But once Julien learned what Erin had done, he immediately sided with Sydney and cut us off. It's obvious that Julien values her more than me, so she doesn't care about us. She doesn't need to curry favor with our family. She can be arrogant and ignore us."
"I don't believe Julien really loves that woman. He must be afraid of her because of something. Maybe she had something on him, so Julien had to take her side and cut us off." Clay said through gritted teeth.
Erin, who was standing on the stairs listening surreptitiously, nodded and believed what Clay was saying was true.
'Dad is right. Julien doesn't love Sydney. He only ever loved Lyra. Even though Lyra is dead, he won't love Sydney. He can only love me!'
At that thought, Erin gripped the banister tighter. Her long nails were adorned with diamonds. As she gripped the banister, her nails made a harsh scratching noise.
The conversation continued downstairs.
"No matter for what reason Julien favors Sydney, it's not a good thing for us that Julien took that woman's side over us. Sydney didn't show us respect because she has Julien on her side. She is not afraid of us because she has Julien on her back. If we do anything to her, she can make Julien hate us even more. By that time, we will be the one who loses in the game. We should never let Julien cut us off. Once Julien cuts us off, you should know what will happen to our family!"
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