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."

to come to terms with

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

didn't mind the lack of

thought that they had done enough now, so it was

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

words were said, Nicholas' icy voice rang

Joseph, but I can still handle things at the company just fine."

into the office now. If there's anything that

glanced at

meant and said quietly, "Go ahead. I'll keep an

nodded and left.

motives, so he instructed Edward to send someone over to keep an

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

this. Even though Kieran isn't here anymore, I'm still here!" Nicholas made this declaration with a firm, determined stance that settled

stayed in their seats as they began muttering among themselves.

Even though his younger brother just died, he's still able to