Ex-wife, Please Come Back

When Jonathan muttered those three words lowly, Thompson almost choked.

"What? Weren't you aware?" he asked. Shock was clearly written all over Thompson's face as he sat there with his mouth agape.

"I wasn't. I had no idea at all. I had done everything I could to get rid of him from the company. In the end, he was still able to solve it with a single word and no one could stop him," Jonathan hissed.

The man was staring fixedly at the ceiling with a blank expression. He could still clearly remember the events that happened from that day. He recalled himself standing in the crowd when Jacob shot him a meaningful look.

At the memory of his cousin's penetrating gaze, he involuntarily shivered. They held no malice nor any hints of emotion at all. It was entirely different from how the old Jacob used to look at him. In the past, the man deliberately showed his coldness towards him. During that day, however, there was not even a single ounce of it.

Jonathan's brows furrowed as his mouth turned grim. Until now, he couldn't decipher the mystery behind Jacob's expression.

He was expecting to be frustrated by his cousin's usual cold demeanor, yet it never came at all. He wasn't exactly happy as well, however. One thing that seemed to make him feel a bit more relieved was that he didn't see his cousin smiling that day. He might have felt uneasy otherwise.

"No one could stop him?" Thompson seemed to doubt what Jonathan said as he whispered those words to himself. His eyes narrowed and his hand was balled into a fist as he touched his mouth and started to think.

'Why did Jacob act that way? What was all this for?'

Brows furrowed in confusion, a lot of thoughts started to swim in his mind. He kept thinking of various possibilities, yet he wasn't able to arrive at an answer.

"There were no hints of anything strange, and he hadn't even mentioned anything out of the ordinary to anyone else?" With a baffled expression on his face, he sat up and leaned forward.

"Yes. There weren't any. When he returned that day, he directly stood in the company's meeting room and announced this matter. I had initially thought that it would take a lot of effort. However, it wasn't any difficult at all," Jonathan stated.

There was no emotion present in his face. After doing a lot of thinking, his eyes appeared distant and drained from feeling anything.

expression, Thompson knew that he wasn't lying. As he didn't lie what did

of it, he would never resign

it didn't make any sense. Jacob's choices were a complete mystery. Even him who was experienced and knowledgeable didn't know what the

I feel depressed.

into a somewhat

around, he kept silent for the

assured. He tried his best to comfort the seething

his partner's situation. All of his efforts

I'm not afraid of what I've done. What scares me is the possibility of

to scold Jacob

standing where he was at the time and laughing at him? His knees unconsciously trembled as he felt goose bumps all over his body at the thought of it. Right now, he couldn't deny that

this feeling at all. Now, he was beginning to regret everything that he had done in the past.

was to prevent Jacob from getting back at him. If however he was given the

he was in this position, I couldn't do

was definitely going to push Jacob to

right. To be honest, I doubted your reasons for approaching me at first. Now, I'm clearly sure that we have the same goal.

his complacent expression had returned as if he had completely forgotten what he had been previously depressed about. He took a couple of confident strides towards his partner and reached out a hand for

hand in response, both men grinned at each other after finally reaching an agreement. When

as he thought of Jacob's impending fate after all the years

couldn't help it as a laugh escaped his lips. Although Jonathan wasn't as competent as Thompson had hoped

least this time around Jonathan knew how to cooperate. There was no doubt about it since it was pretty obvious

course, the arrogance was still there but it was unlike before. Everything was reasonable, and everything was unknown.