Chapter 1419

“I agree. Go ahead with your plan, George said, clapping Alaric on the shoulder with a reassuring thud.

*The Reeds have really thrown you a lifeline in business. Try not to burn bridges with them,” Michael reminded Alaric before he left. After casting a meaningful glance at Hertha, he made his exit.

One by one, the rest of the stakeholders filtered out of the room.

At the conference room door, only Hertha and Alaric remained.

The once bustling space quieted down, and the air seemed to thicken with an odd tension that made Hertha feel uneasy, her heartbeat picking up pace.

“Um, I actually…”

“Sorry you had to see that circus, Alaric cut in before she could continue, his normally carefree eyes clouded with a certain gravity.

roguish charm that usually danced in his eyes seemed to have dimmed,

having to witness such

but the last person he wanted to be seen like that by

had

if his pride had been dragged through the mud, and

he

struggling to reconcile the image of the embarrassed, guilt–ridden man before her with the flamboyant, carefree Alaric she

once defined him was now overshadowed by

restraint was heart–wrenching to see.

away, Hertha hastily called out, “Alaric, I need your help with something.”

tracks, his hands clenching at his sides, but he didn’t turn

He noted Alaric’s troubled expression and Hertha standing behind him near the conference room

been in a meeting today, and it wouldn’t have been the first time Georgia had caused a scene in the

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