All Her Secrets

The food in the restaurant was pretty good. Catherine had quite a meal that night. Erick saw Catherine setting down her fork to take a drink, and he seized the chance to strike up a conversation.

"Catherine, what brings you to Oceanvile?" he asked.

Catherine didn't hold back. She told him Rodge needed help, hence her rush to Oceanvile.

After Erick heard that, he said with disappointment, "Catherine, I thought I might have a chance to show you around Oceanvile for a couple of days, but it looks like you don't have the time.

Catherine nodded in agreement and replied calmly, "Indeed. There's hardly any time. I need to get back to Loxton soon." Erick then brought up sinternal company matters to Catherine.

"Catherine, I stumbled upon something. Sold factions within the company have been in contact with the Breens. They seem to have intentions to support the old associates of the Winfreds, but their exact motives are still unclear," he said.

During Xavier's tenure, several key positions at the Winfred Group were held by members of the Winfreds family.

Since Erick took over, there have been significant changes in personnel through replacements or reassignments at important positions.

However, people from the Winfreds family were spread throughout the Winfred Group in various departments. Removing them wouldn't be easy unless the Winfred Group was overturned.

Those people seemed calm and compliant on the surface as if they were aligning themselves with Erick. But they were constantly scheming behind the scenes, intending to pull Erick from the top position and reclaim the Winfreds' assets.

Catherine had been immersed in the lab lately. She didn't intervene much apart from dealing with Atticus once. As for Edson, she hadn't paid attention to him during this period.

It was surprising to hear that the Breens had their fingers in the Winfred Group.

Erick had been channeling funds from the Winfred Group to the Arbotte Laboratory for research purposes.

the Winfred Group. Catherine scoffed

He had thought the Winfreds were seeking help to regain their assets, so he wasn't

a big deal to him. His

target was Catherine. If they dared to touch Catherine, they'd

act against these people, but now he decided to clear these obstacles for Catherine's

Group won't fall into chaos witharound." Catherine glanced appreciatively at Erick. During

getting quite active, and it seemed Shane couldn't sit still any longer. As they discussed back and forth, Branden, who sat silently nearby, finally spoke

said softly, "You've cstraight from the plane to the lab. You've had a tiring day.

Catherine getting drowsy, Erick felt quite sorry for her. He

his arm around Catherine. He was exceptionally

the hospitality, Mr. Olsen. There's no need to see us off," Branden said with

they got into

her to rest against him, and

drifted to sleep,

about to silence his phone so avoid disturbing Catherine, the screen lit

swiftly declined the call before it even had a chance

phone and slipped it into

"Paxton, what's up? Did Mr. Branden not take the call?" "Yeah." Paxton nodded slightly. Not only did Branden not take the call, he also turned

happen to disturb Mr. Branden and Miss Swann having a good time, did you?" They knew Branden had gone with Catherine to Oceanvile.

your hide." After being reprimanded by Paxton,

didn't answer the call?" Earlier, Edson launched a fierce

changed his previous methods and wanted to defeat the Duncan Corporation

greatest danger to the Duncan Corporation and held