Always Been Yours

Chapter 1404 The Battle Begins

She didn’t want to drag him down.

Tessa didn’t say that out loud, of course. Nicholas went to work after she agreed to the arrangements. Not too long after he reached the office, Edward came to report about work. Nicholas spent a few minutes delegating all the work for the day.

Reminded of the events in Filisburg, he frowned. “How is the negotiation with Filisburg?”

“We’re still in the middle of it,” answered Edward.

Nicholas’ face fell. “It’s been two days, but you still have nothing to show for it? What’s taking them so long?”

and Joseph refuse to hand over the ledgers,” said Edward, and then he

his

was as black as thunder and he

tensed up. He looked at Nicholas carefully and gulped. “Maybe I

reason for that. They don’t want us to find out about their monkey business,”

musing over the matter, and then he reached an unbelievable

push them to take this risk.”

struck a deal with some businessman abroad behind his back. They used a lot of the company’s money for that, yet they still hadn’t given it back. Now, they were even using a falsified account to hide their tracks.

Nicholas in tense

lost a lot of money. More than our estimate, even. That’s