Chapter 634

As soon as I walked into the office, I couldn't help but frown at how eerily quiet it was. It was already 9:30 am, so people should have been at their desks by now. But scanning the room, I could barely spot a handful of employees. The few that were there quickly stood up and greeted me. "Where is everyone?" I asked. "Good morning, Mr. Palmer. Mr. Levy and Mr. Jameson took the new hires out for an assignment." I let out a small sigh of relief. For a moment, I thought everyone had jumped ship. But something didn't sit right with me. "New hires? That's only five of them, right? What about the rest?" The employee's expression immediately turned awkward. The others looked just as uncomfortable. "Mr. Palmer, out of all the old employees in our company, only the five of us are left..." "Only five?" My frown deepened, and I could feel anger rising in my chest. Shine Studio was never a huge operation, but before my incident, we had a solid team—dozens of people working in designs, fi