Adele took a plate skimmed over with some fruit and veggies and started snapping photos of it, like the ultimate paparazzi. After a few minutes she put the plate down and gobbled down two mini burgers in an instant.
Jo was rendered speechless.
"Huh! What are you doing?!"
"What!... Do you think I'll let a man control me? If I was fine with that, I wouldn't have been single till now..." Adele replied.
Jo was speechless again. Didn't that defied the point of her nutritional plan? Some people were feeding money to the dogs.
The girls were happily chatting away and enjoying the food, when they saw Chris approaching them.
"Ladies, let's go and pay our respects to Mr Barrowman" The three of them crossed through the crowd and a approached a petite man in his late 70's with a full head of white hair, by the bar.
"Sir Barrowman! What a great evening, I hope you are enjoying yourself" Chris addressed the man.
"Mr Newman, I happy you were able to attend, I hope you find the event satisfactory" Mr Barrowman politely replied.
"It is very enjoyable as always. You already know Miss Sanders..." Chris gestured towards Adele. She faced the man with a gentile smile and a cold air.
"The other lovely lady next to me, is Miss Muller my colleague in the design department, I think you will be working together in the future" Chris introduced Jo to Mr. Barrowman with a large smile.
Chris was quite fond of Jo, she was very hardworking and always was oblivious at the politics happening in the office. Never complained and nobody complained about her. She was the easiest to work with in his department and on top of that, Jo was quite talented too, she was able to produce always great designs packages.
He hoped that this project went to her team. It was sitting or their desk for too long now and they wanted a clean and outstanding way out.
"Mr. Barrowman its a pleasure to meet you, congratulations on the anniversary of your company and I am looking forward to our collaboration" Jo replied politely.
Before Mr. Barrowman could reply, two figures approached them. It was Mr. Sun and his translator Harry.
"Mr. Barrowman, congratulations" Mr. Sun addressed the businessman.
"Mr. Sun, thank you! You arrived at the right time, I wanted to introduce Mr. Chris Newman to you. They are from Foster & Partners, the architecture company that manages Astoria Park in Switzerland, I think we should get their opinion on Fenteng"
"Ha! ha!..." Mr. Sun chuckled politely, saying a short phrase in Chinese to his translator.
"Mr. Sun is very well acquainted with Fosters & Partners. We are working closely with Miss Muller present here" Harry reiterated Mr. Sun's thoughts to the group. Seeing the pleasant smile on their lips Mr. Barrowman relaxed slightly. He thought to himself earlier that this young lass might not be fit to carry on this tremendous amount of work. Seeing now that his business partner Mr. Sun had a quite good impression about her, it made him look forward to their collaboration. She was quite beautiful too and he was known to have a fondness for pretty young girls.
"That is great then, Fenteng its a skyscraper we have submitted planning applications to in China. We aim to mediate the European and Chinese financial disputes through this partnership. We hope we can meet in the near future and draw some conclusions together Mr. Newman" Mr. Barrowman addressed Chris.
"We hope to see you in China" Mr. Sun added.
"It's a pleasure to be invited in the discussions of this partnership Mr. Barrowman, I look forward in visiting China in the near future Mr. Sun" Chris replied both business men with a grin on his face. He didn't expect this anniversary event to land him another project with these big shots.