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.

danced in his eyes seemed to have dimmed, leaving him looking decidedly deflated.

Hertha for having to witness such

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

yet, she had

been dragged through the mud, and

he

reconcile the image of the embarrassed, guilt–ridden man before her with the

him

that restraint was heart–wrenching to

away, Hertha hastily called out, “Alaric, I

at his sides, but

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

meeting today, and it wouldn’t have been the first

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