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Chapter 277. Hysterical.
Rebecca took a breath, the sound crackling through the speaker. "I've been digging into the shell company, trying to trace its origins. It was slow going at first, dead end after dead end, false trail after false trail. Whoever set this up knew what they were doing. They covered their tracks with a kind of zeal that borders on being obsessive.""But you found something," Noah prompted."I did." Rebecca's voice carried a note of satisfaction. "It turns out the shell company is just an SPE. A special purpose entity. The kind of legal structure that corporations use for specific projects or investments. It's designed to be opaque, to keep the parent company's involvement hidden from public view.""So it's a subsidiary," Noah said. "Owned by a larger company that we haven't identified yet.""Not exactly." Rebecca paused, and he could hear her shuffling papers in the background. "The SPE wasn't set up by some external entity trying to hide their involvement. It was set up by someone inside
Chapter 276. Lead.
Evelyn was quiet for a moment, her body still pressed against Noah's. Then she let out a long breath, some of the tension draining from her shoulders."You're going to have to deal with him eventually," she said, her voice carrying a note of gentle reproach. "You can't keep antagonizing him like this."Noah looked down at her, his expression softening. "He started it."Evelyn rolled her eyes, a small pout forming on her lips. "Oh stop it. I know Micheal has been difficult and that he's been trying to undermine you. But you're not making things any easier by fighting fire with fire."Noah frowned. "What would you have me do? Let him walk all over me? You're the one who said I should be a better leader. And I'm doing that.""I agree." Evelyn shifted in his lap, turning to face him more fully. "But it doesn't change the fact that the tension between you two is affecting the entire office. People are taking sides. Meetings are becoming battlegrounds. It's toxic, Noah. And it's going to af
Chapter 275. Reputable.
He had to use every morsel of restraint he could muster in his body because he really liked this, liked the way she fit against him and he didn't want to make it awkward over not being able to control himself because a beautiful woman he liked was sitting on him."I can't believe you did that to your boss," she was saying, still laughing. "To his face?""To his face." Noah grinned, reaching for a grape from the fruit salad she had brought. "He deserved it. The man had been insufferable for weeks."He frowned, making his voice sound nasally and high-pitched, as he said, “Noah yer bumblin’ buffoon! I can't believe you tore up all m’ work sheets!" He mocked in a portrayal of his boss from two years ago.Evelyn giggled, nearly snorting as she covered her mouth with her hands."You're terrible." She managed to gasp out as she shook against him, her eyes bright with hysteria. "I love it."He leaned down, pressing a kiss to her temple. She smelled like jasmine and something sweet, a combinat
Chapter 274. Teens In Love.
Noah held up a hand before they could start arguing.“Stop it already." At both their glares he softened his tone, lifting both hands to show that he meant no harm, "Look. I'm not asking for details. I'm not asking you to hash out your personal issues in front of me. But I need you both to be present on what we're working with and not keep glaring at each other at any chance you get.” He said, exasperation deep in his tone, "I need you both to focus and work with me. Can you do that?"They were silent for a moment, their eyes meeting in a silent exchange that Noah couldn't read. There was something there, something complicated and painful, something that went beyond a simple disagreement. He could see it in the way Rebecca's jaw tightened, in the way Chantel's eyes flickered with something that might have been hurt.Then, slowly, they both nodded."Good," Noah said. "Then let's get back to work."It wasn't easy, being caught in the middle of whatever was going on with them and as th
Chapter 273. The Tension.
Noah drove back home with a smile on his face.It spread across his face, unbidden and uncontrollable.He hoped she liked her present. He had chosen the delicate bracelet himself and had made sure to have it delivered when they was already on the road so she would find it when she stepped in. The note had been a spur of the moment addition which he had written and rewritten a dozen times before finally settling on something simple and honest. He wondered if she had read it yet. He wondered if she liked it.He hoped she did.Noah shook his head, the smile still playing at the corners of his lips. He felt lighter than he had in days, the weight of his worries temporarily lifted. The paranoia was still there, a faint echo in the back of his mind, but it had faded. He realized now that maybe it had been a side effect of his time with his grandfather, of the oppressive atmosphere of the manor, of the old man's obsessive suspicion. Nathaniel Hawthorne saw threats everywhere, trusted n
Chapter 272. Lovesick.
They talked for hours after that.Noah felt like they had talked about every conversation under the sun.Although, he didn't tell her about his grandfather or about the conspiracy theory he had now. But he told her other things and made lots of jokes and although they were mostly at his own expense, he felt a warmth spread through his chest as he watched Evelyn laugh till she couldn't breathe.He was very glad that he had succeeded in brightening her day.The guilt was still there, a quiet ache beneath the surface. He had hurt her, had made her question her place in his life, and, even after she had graciously accepted his apologies for the second time, he knew that one evening of apologies and foot massages wasn't enough to erase that. But it was a start. It was something.By the time they exhausted each other's company, the clock on the wall read nearly midnight. The office was quiet, the rest of the building long since emptied, and the city lights outside the window had dimmed to
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