Chapter 5

Today, Nana is being discharged, Brielle called a taxi. They got to their house. She stayed a while with Nana, after much persuasion from Nana, she told her how she got the money for her surgery, Nana cried blaming herself for it.

"Nana it's okay, you just recovered you shouldn't be stressing yourself."

"Elle am very sorry."

"Nana I love you, I know you will do same for me if you were in my shoes. Don't beat yourself for it too much, it's just a matter of six months."

"Six months is too much Elle."

"I will be visiting regularly."

She stayed for few minutes, before she left.

George saw her outside and decided to wait for her at the door.

"Where have you been." George asked her at the door.

"Hell no, not again. George please not now. Am tired please."

"Then why did you have to leave without telling me."

"You locked your door, and refused to open when I knocked."

George remembered when he heard a knock on his door, but called it a bluff. That she don't have any serious things to say to him.

"Ok I get it."

"So can I pass now."

"Yes, No" Brielle raised her brows at him, with a question look.

"The thing is that Yaya requested to see you hours ago. But I couldn't find you, I sent my driver to the hospital to get you but he said you checked out of the hospital."

"So?" Brielle asked folding her hands.

"So, as you walk into that living room. Be on your best wife behaviour, she already have suspicion about this. So anything I say in there you have to agree with it. Do you understand."

"Yes sir." He walked into the living room with Brielle trailing behind him.

"Yaya, how are you." Brielle said as she walked past George seeing Yaya sitting there and joined her.

"Am fine. Where have you been?"

"I went to see my grandmother, I couldn't inform Pappy because he was sleeping and dis want to wake him, he had such a long night yesterday." Brielle said, turned and smirked at George was sitting behind her. George was angry that she referred to him as Pappy, and with the way she insinuated about last night because she knows he was at hotel.

"I will like to see your grandmother one day."

"Yes, anytime you wish. She will be so happy to have you."

Everywhere became silent afterwards. They joined Yaya in watching movie. Brielle left few minutes later to prepare dinner when Yaya said is hungry. They had dinner and retired to their respective bedroom.

The following day was Monday, Brielle woke up on time and prepared breakfast. When she was ready to leave, she waited for George so that they can leave together. When she saw George leaving she followed him.

"Why are you following me?"

"To work of course, where am I to go on a Monday morning."

"Don't tell me you are thinking of riding in my car."

Brielle stared at him. George entered his car, when Brielle wanted to open the car, the was locked already.

"I can't ride in the same space with you. Call a cab to pick you." He said and drove off.

On getting to work, Brielle met Rafaelle, as she rushed in already late.

"Don't tell me you are coming now." Rafaella asked.

"Yeah, I was caught with something."

"With what?"

"Not now, I will see you later during lunch." Brielle said, rushing towards the elevator.

The office hours were normal, until George called Brielle into his office.

"I need all the documents on Abacus." George said to Brielle.

"Any problem with them?"

"The numbers here are not adding up, so I want to be sure where we made mistakes."

"Ok Sir." She went to the shelf in George's office to look for it. Fifteen minutes later, she found all the documents.

"Here they are." She said dropping them on his desk.

"I want you to go through this document and find where the missing numbers are. Because the figures I am seeing will send me crazy."

Brielle took the documents to her office, after forty five minutes of going through them, she was as confused as George.

She went through them again, but arrived at the same results.

"The amount recorded here is not adding up with the total of the expenses."

"Ok I get that, so how much is the total missing."

"Ehhm, we are missing two million."

"Fuck." George shouted standing from the seat, pacing around his office.

"George, calm down."

"Don't tell me to calm down, you don't know how much that is involved here, the whole sum of two million, and you are telling me to calm down." He said infuriated as he hit the table. Which made Brielle flinch.

"Who the hell was in charge of the project?" He asked.

"That's Mr. Rowan."

"Call him for me." Brielle left and made the call, even though they are not on good terms, she understands the amount of money involved and what the loss of it can do to the company, but is confused at how such an amount can go missing. Brielle picked the document and skimmed through it.

"Something is not adding up, how can this go through the Accounting department, without them noticing." She skimmed to the bottom of the document, only to notice the difference in the signature and that of George. She had only worked with him for six months, but she could tell his signature even in slumber.

She barged through George's office, and saw Mr. Rowan as he was also going through the document.

"I think there is a problem somewhere."

"What do you mean?"

"Whoever did this was able to manipulate your signature." George picked the document on his desk immediately.

"SHIT." He shouted.

"Mr. Rowan, I will give you the last chance to come clean. Did you know about the money."

The man was already fidgeting, the heat coming from George wasn't helping matters.

"George, I swear I didn't know about this, I didn't even know about the signature up till now."

"If I ever find out that you are involved in this, you won't like the results. You have worked for my father for too long for you to incur my wrath, and am sure my father won't also be happy to know that a friend did such to him. You can go."

"And again, nobody should know about this."

When Mr. Rowan left, Brielle stayed and watched as George paced around his office. She can feel his anger, she felt for him at that moment. She canceled his meetings for the day.

George made a few calls, he was leaning with his hand on his desk when a cup of coffee was pushed towards him.

He looked up before grabbing the cup.

"What do you mean?" Michael said as he burst through the door to George's office.

"Have you questioned those in charge of the project?"

"I can't question all of them, that will tip the culprit off. I want to investigate privately to know the son of bitch who has the audacity to forge my signature."

"So where do you want to start from?"

"I don't know, that's why I called you, you are a lawyer, so you must have an Intel on how to go on about such situations."

"Can I say something." Brielle chipped from her position. George has forgotten her presence in the room.

"Yes." Michael said.

"I think the best way to start, is to ask Mr. Rowan those that got in touch with the document, and have them investigated."

"I think that's a good idea.". Michael said.

"It will make it a lot much easier."