Semua Bab The Billionaire's Scorned Ex-wife Is Back For Revenge: Bab 51 - Bab 60

ADRIAN'S POVI left the cafe and drove straight to my office. I had promised Nichole I would handle the investigation, and I meant it. But I wasn't going to wait until Monday.I sat at my desk and pulled out my phone. There was only one person I trusted with something this important."Damien Cross," the voice answered on the second ring."It's Adrian. I need your help.""What's the situation?""Someone stole money from the Valmont empire, Made us buy fake building materials through shell companies. I need to know who."There was a pause. Damien and I had worked together before. He knew I didn't waste his time with small problems."How much money are we talking about?""Millions. And it's not just about the money. Someone inside helped them do it.""Inside The Valmont's company?""I think so. Maybe someone on the board.""That's serious. What do you need from me?""I need you to follow the money. Find out who set up the shell companies. Look at financial records, digital trails, vendor

NICHOLE'S POVThe room went dead quiet after Adrian said that. Everyone just stared at each other. I could feel the tension in the air.Logan was still sitting there with his arms crossed, looking like he didn't care. But I saw Cynthia glance at Gregory real quick. Just for a second, but I caught it.Gregory was trying to look calm, but his hands were shaking a little. He kept gripping them together under the table.Adrian opened the folder slowly. The sound of papers moving seemed so loud in the quiet room. He started putting documents on the table one by one."Let me show you what we found," Adrian said. "Fake companies. Money going to the wrong places. Someone on the inside helped make this happen."He put another paper down. "Almost four million dollars went to a fake company called Premium Construction Solutions."I watched Gregory's face. He tried to look normal, but I saw him swallow hard."This wasn't some stranger doing this," Adrian continued. "This was someone we trusted. S

NICHOLE'S POV"It's about Gregory," I said, my voice barely above a whisper."What about him?" Aunt Sarah asked. I could hear the concern in her voice now. "Is he okay? Did something happen?"I took a deep breath. There was no easy way to say this. "Aunt Sarah, Gregory was arrested today. He was stealing money from the company."The line went quiet. So quiet I thought the call might have dropped."Aunt Sarah? Are you there?""I'm here," she said, her voice much smaller now. "What do you mean arrested? What do you mean stealing?""We found out he was working with his nephew Marcus. They created fake companies and stole almost four million dollars from us. They were using bad building materials that could have hurt people."Another long pause. Then I heard it - a soft crying sound from the other end of the line."Aunt Sarah?" I said, confused. I expected her to be shocked, maybe angry, maybe in denial. But she was just crying quietly."I'm so sorry, Nichole," she whispered between sobs.

BLAKE'S POVFor days and weeks, I had been looking behind me, waiting for the day that bitch would show up to take back the contract deal she gave me, but she didn't come.I couldn't believe that despite Lydia's stupid attempt at abducting her, she still went ahead and gave me back the contract deal.What the hell could she be planning?I asked myself that question every time I woke up in the morning. I never failed to look around me anytime I stepped out of the house to go to the company.Maybe she was watching me? Maybe she was waiting for the right time to strike, or maybe this was her strategy—a way of getting the public on her side.Whatever it was, I couldn't trust it, but still, I was glad that I had my company back. We still won.Lydia had been quiet ever since she came back. She barely talked to me and barely ate. I tried countless times to talk to her, but she would always end up shushing me and yelling at me to leave her alone.I stood up from the bed. As usual, Lydia wasn'

NICHOLE'S POVI was working on some reports when my assistant came in. She looked nervous, which was weird because Sarah was usually pretty calm about everything."Ms. Thompson? There's an emergency board meeting. They want you in Conference Room A right now."I looked up from my papers. "Emergency meeting? I didn't call any meeting.""Mr. Martinez said it was urgent. Something about Gregory Alex."My heart started beating fast. Logan was calling meetings now? That wasn't right. As the head of this company, I should be the one calling emergency meetings. Especially about something this serious."Who's there?""Most of the board. They've been coming in for twenty minutes. Mr. Peterson, Mrs. Chen, Mr. Williams. Even Mr. Brooks came in from his vacation."That made my stomach drop. Mr. Brooks never cut his vacations short. Never."Did they say anything else?""No, but they all looked really serious. And they had briefcases. Like they came prepared for something big."Something was wrong.