Always Been Yours

"I can't go back to sleep right now. There are a lot of things at the office that I need to take care of." Nicholas shook his head and rejected the idea, but he pulled Tessa into a tight hug. "Don't worry. I won't take my health for granted."

Tessa couldn't press further, so she changed the subject. "A lot of the family relatives came over while you were asleep. Granduncles Adam and Joseph came over too. They're downstairs right now."

"They got here this quickly, huh?" He narrowed his eyes.

She didn't quite catch what he said so she eyed him curiously. "What did you say?"

"It's nothing. Since we have guests here, let's go down." Nicholas released Tessa from his hug before taking her hand to walk down with her.

Quite a few people were sitting in the living room. Adam and Joseph were making a whole show out of their attempts to comfort Stefania and Tobias.

"I never thought something like this would happen. Thankfully, you still have Nicholas. You two have got long lives ahead of you still so you must take good care of yourselves."

"My condolences."

on. You need to come to terms

Tobias didn't respond. Their moods were somber as they listened to the barrage of words that were

others didn't mind the lack of response.

Joseph exchanged glances and mutually thought that they had done enough now, so it was

looking for Kieran. The company has been in a crisis for three days now and nothing's been done to resolve it. It's just as well that we came back, so why don't we get our cousins to take over the responsibilities at the company? That way, Nicholas can just

Nicholas' icy voice rang out through

Joseph, but I can still handle things at the

with Tessa and walked straight over to his parents. "I'm heading into the office now. If there's anything that needs to be

glanced at Tessa.

understood what he meant and said quietly, "Go ahead. I'll keep an eye

nodded and

motives, so he instructed

the company, he immediately called for a private conference and invited all of the company's worried clients to

over the past three days due to the Sawyers' private matters. I won't touch on anything else, but I'll say this. Even

conference was over, most of them stayed in their seats as

him as his successor. Even though his younger brother just died, he's