Chapter 256

Agnes took the food.

“Thanks, Ivan.”

Ivan plonked himself on the single-seater next to her.

“I don’t know what went down between you and Jared, but I heard he’s been feeling pretty rotten too. I ran into his secretary today. Leo said things are getting really tense at the Tim Group, all the bigwigs are on edge. Apparently, Jared’s been piling on the pressure in meetings, they’re all close to cracking.”

At the mention of Jared, Agnes felt a pang in her heart.

Ivan sighed, “Jared doesn’t usually fet his emotions show. If he’s like this now, I reckon he must be really upset but doesn’t know how to vent. What really happened between you two?”

Agnes didn’t really know either.

had been waiting for an answer

of the necklace issue,

thought about it and realized there

Jared hadn’t found any leads yet, or he had found out that this had something

might just be him trying to protect Mamie.

blurted out, “I have a

calmly responded,

helped you unconditionally when you were wrongly accused, but they didn’t fully

I were wrongly accused, I’d do everything I could to clear my name

after

me, it’s all pretty weird. The auction house staff, the emcee, even the security manager, they all vanished. Jared’s already announced that he’s the buyer of the gemstone, so he can’t investigate publicly, otherwise, it’ll

Agnes

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