As Asher began to understand the situation, fear turned his stomach cold. His first instinct was to run away.

But Maurice wasn’t going to give him that chance.

“Have a seat.”

Asher sat down uneasily.

Maurice sat as well. He got right to the point. “I want you to do me a favor, Mr. Harrison.”

Asher’s body stiffened, and he hesitated for a moment before replying, “How can I help you, Mr. Moran?”

Eliana clenched her fists. She had a feeling that Maurice was about to bring up the Pierce Group.

Maurice took a leisurely sip of coffee and placed his cup down. “It’s not a big deal,” he said slowly. “It’s about some rumors that I’ve heard recently.”

Asher’s throat tightened and cold sweat ran down his back.

“What rumors?” Asher asked.

“I’ve heard that the reason the Pierce Group went bankrupt is because someone plotted against it,” Maurice continued. “Mr. and Mrs. Pierce were driven to despair and died by suicide. Mr. Harrison, as a former employee of the Pierce Group, I thought that you might know the true story.”

If it was fated to happen, it would happen.

Asher’s face went pale visibly.

realized Maurice had found something out. He was testing Asher. If Asher didn’t give him some information, Maurice wasn’t

that if he told Maurice that Gerald was the real culprit, he would die in

and stood quietly beside Maurice. She seemed

wasn’t getting enough air. She

her discomfort and held her hand to support

through Eliana’s body, slowly calming

blind with jealousy when he saw

let

that Mr. Pierce’s death was a result of overwhelming pressure

jumped into

the truth about to

I suspected that the villain

The villain was… Maurice?!

previously had been a comforting warmth from Maurice’s palm now felt like burning metal. Without thinking, Eliana

He raised his head and coldly stared

him of. How dare Asher try to smear Maurice’s

talking nonsense. I’ll give you one last

confidence wavered in the face of Maurice’s

enough to fill him with the fuel of jealousy once

not to push me. If you threaten to nullify the business relationship between us, that will not change my mind. I

best to act like a noble and resolute man, and to paint Maurice as a bully who used his power to

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