Next day at the office, Sophia found on her desk letter from Mark requesting a leave of absence for personal reasons for an unknown amount of time. Sophia didn't want to inquire about it as she could already guess that it's related to the incident. She approved it and let her secretary handle the rest.
Good news for Sophia: her personal assistant, Leah was back from vacation. Sophia excitedly told her about Felix and promised that one of these days all three of them will go for lunch together. After a friendly chat with Leah, it was back to work for Sophia.
She was in New York for two months, and besides her regular meetings, all directors wanted to meet with her individually so that they can give her in person a status report and to discuss future plans.
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Next Tuesday afternoon, Sophia had a meeting with Jeffrey White, CEO of White corp.
