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.

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

that if he told Maurice that Gerald was the real culprit, he

head and stood quietly beside Maurice. She seemed calm,

dizzy, like she wasn’t getting enough air. She was close to

and held her hand to

spread through Eliana’s

with jealousy when

never let Maurice

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

jumped into

truth about

villain

The villain was… Maurice?!

comforting warmth from Maurice’s palm now felt like burning metal. Without thinking, Eliana snatched her hand out of

face darkened. He raised his head

done nothing that Asher was accusing him of. How dare Asher try to smear Maurice’s name right under his

talking nonsense. I’ll give you one last

confidence wavered in the face of

fill him with the fuel of jealousy

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

best to act like a noble and resolute man, and to paint Maurice as a bully

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