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 with

Their moods were somber as they listened to the barrage of words that

the lack

exchanged glances and mutually thought that they had done enough now, so it was time to bring up the purpose of

been spending all his time 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,

were said, Nicholas' icy voice rang out

for the kind gesture, Granduncle Adam and Granduncle Joseph, but I can still handle

office now. If there's anything that needs to be done at home,

at Tessa.

he meant and said quietly, "Go ahead. I'll keep an eye on things here. Nothing will happen."

nodded and

still wary of all these relatives with ulterior motives, so he instructed Edward to send someone over to

for a private conference and invited all of the company's worried clients to

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

over, most of them stayed in their seats

see why Old Master Sawyer chose him as his successor. Even though his younger brother just died, he's