Silas noticed that Natalie was struggling with all the belongings in her hands, especially with her leg injury. It looked as though she was about to fall anytime. While he remained quiet about her demeanor, he didn’t really want to see her fall. Hence, he extended his hand and offered to help. “Let me help you with the laptop.”

“Thank you, Mr. Campbell.” Natalie didn’t find anything wrong with his behavior and handed over her laptop to him gratefully.

There were important documents relating to her drafts on that laptop. She wouldn’t have to worry about dropping and damaging the laptop if someone helped her with it.

They arrived at the meeting room shortly after.

Following Silas’ instructions, she sat down at a seat near the door.

Despite entering in a low-profile and quiet manner, she still managed to attract everyone’s attention.

Jasmine was the first to spot her. The woman’s gaze swept past her briefcase and laptop. For a split second, the corners of her lips curled into a slight smirk.

“Mr. Shane.” Natalie looked at the man who was seated at the head of the table.

“Are you ready?” He asked as his gaze moved toward her.

She nodded in response.

 

“Let’s begin then.” Shane interlocked his fingers and placed them on the table, ready to listen to the presentation.

Natalie took a deep breath, opened up her briefcase, and pulled out a blue file from it.
However, her body froze when she opened up the file. “What is this!”

Seeing the color drain from Natalie’s face, Shane narrowed his

her fists and uttered, “My drafts are

his brows

nodded and showed him the contents of the file. “Look! It’s all blank paper! My draft

mocked. “Ms. Natalie, please don’t come up with excuses. I

too sure about that!” Natalie turned her head and

fists on the table. “What do you mean by that? And why are you looking at me?

Jasmine, did you need to react like this?” Natalie’s face darkened as she remarked

gulped and instantly got furious. She was about to retaliate when Shane

this debacle continue. He

Natalie in anger. “Shane,

cut her off. His

Jasmine dared

shot her a meaningful look before turning to Natalie. “Do you

save it on my laptop. But I suppose that is gone too.” As she spoke, Natalie powered up her laptop and clicked on

was quite angry, there was no

the physical copy were already stolen, there was no way

upon this. At that moment, the only sound in the meeting room was the rhythmic tapping

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