Never Late, Never Away

Never Late, Never Away Chapter 1936

“Wow. What a coincidence!” A familiar voice rang out.

“Well, join us,” Nancy said aloud.

While Dustin made his way over, there was a twinkle of delight in his eyes when he glanced at Joan.

“Joan’s here too,” the man said.

“Yeah. I came to catch up with Nancy,” she replied.

Ring, ring, ring…

Nancy answered her phone promptly.

“What? Today? Alright, got it. I’ll be right over.” She appeared quite anxious when she hung up.

“I’ve got something to attend to. If you don’t mind, Dustin, keep Joan company on my behalf. And don’t you pick on her!” With that, Nancy picked up her bag and dashed for the exit.

The mood suddenly turned stifling.

A slightly self-conscious Dustin sat across Joan while she kept her head down and pretended to be focused on working her knife into her steak.

“Joan, what’s gotten into you today?” He finally broke the silence.

down her cutlery, and regarded

you making moves on Norton Corporation?” she

So, it’s about this.

when he wiped

entrance into Norton Corporation makes you uncomfortable. I don’t wish to see

feel a

it. The affairs of men was not something she

It’s just business, but I hope that you and Larry

much she loves

fists. His initial plan was to buy the shares from some existing shareholders and become Norton Corporation’s largest shareholder. Who

on

snorted and stared at

Boom!

sudden downpour as

reason, she felt

wrong, Joan?” Dustin asked

shook her head and implied that

growing intensity of the downpour as the sky darkened only added to her burgeoning sense of

Let me

then turned to see the

ahead. Larry

sent Larry a text to pick her