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."

need to come

listened to the barrage of words that were

the lack of

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

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

words were said, Nicholas' icy voice

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

straight over to his parents. "I'm heading into the office now. If there's anything that

at

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

nodded and left.

of all these relatives with ulterior motives, so he

conference and invited all of the company's worried

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, I'm still here!" Nicholas made this declaration with a firm, determined

over, most of them stayed in their seats

him as his successor. Even though his younger brother just died, he's still able to be this calm and clear-headed."