Always Been Yours

Tessa spoke gently.

Stefania said, "Take care of yourself. It's a bit cold lately, so stay warm."

"I will." Tessa nodded.

Remus then told Ian, "Prepare some supplements and send them to Nicholas' place." He looked at Tessa. "You need them."

Tessa smiled. "Thank you, Grandpa."

After Nicholas had breakfast with Tessa the next day, he went to work. Not long after he stepped into his office, Edward came in looking solemn. "We've gotten the results, sir."

"And?" Nicholas shot him a look.

companies was in the red. To not raise any suspicion, he used the money of another company to cover the first

taken that risk with me if that was the case. They would have gone for a safer alternative and kept

it, it does sound weird. "I should double-check the amount of the losses and the

the finance department to help out."

as they guessed, something was wrong. Edward came back looking somber. "You

"What did you find?"

due diligence, we found a lot of inconsistencies in the ledgers. There's a shortfall of about

to find out what that money was used for."

quickly went to investigate. An hour later, he came into Nicholas' office in a hurry. "We might have a big problem, sir."

time?" Nicholas looked at him.

history, and they found a big one. They paid a big

at Edward fixedly. He had a guess what that something was.