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.

reported, "Earlier this year, one of Adam's companies was in the red. To not raise any suspicion, he used the money of another company

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

that you mentioned it, it does sound weird. "I should double-check the amount

And tell the finance department to help

nodded. Their investigation yielded results later that day, and as they guessed, something was wrong. Edward came back looking somber. "You were right,

did you

ledgers. There's a shortfall of about a hundred and fifty million."

"Keep looking into it. I want to find out what that money was used for." A

the severity of the situation finally dawned on Edward, he quickly went to investigate. An hour later, he came into Nicholas' office in a hurry. "We might have a big problem, sir."

Nicholas looked at him.

my men to check the branch's transaction history, and they found a big one. They paid a big sum of money for… something."

do you mean by something?" Nicholas stared at Edward fixedly. He had a guess what that