Chapter 77

The candidates were still whispering among themselves. "Why would the CEO show up all of a sudden?" "Beats me." The supervisor greeted Marcus respectfully, "Good afternoon, sir." Marcus didn't even glance at anyone else. He walked straight to Elaine and placed another test paper on her desk. Elaine glanced at the test, then looked up at Marcus, confused. "Mr. Sinclair...?" "Finish this one too," Marcus said flatly, no room for negotiation in his tone. The test he handed her wasn't particularly hard for her, but for someone at her level, it was a serious time-eater. An hour was definitely pushing it. Even two hours might not cut it—unless you already knew all those complicated formulas and— "Sir, I really can't finish this in an hour," Elaine said, trying to reason with him. "If you can't finish it, you fail," Marcus replied, face stone-cold. Elaine felt like he was being ridiculously unreasonable and tried to argue her case. "But others—" Before she could finish, Marcus cut her off. "Y