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Ivan’s POV

The meeting ended and I couldn’t be any more grateful. I brought out the prepared contract and passed it to everyone on the table and I watched their facial expression change.

“You know what, Mr Alessio?” One of them finally spoke, breaking the silence. Whatever is going to come with what he intends to say wouldn’t be good news, I just know it.

“We need some time to really think about it, we need to know if we’re really ready to invest such a huge amount of money into this so please, give us some time to think about it.” He smiled as they all returned the piece of papers back to me.

My chest tightened and my fist clenched in anger, I could feel my blood boiling and I knew that their decision to think about it was probably because of my assistant, the same assistant I know absolutely nothing about.

“It’s fine, I understand it’s a huge step to take so please take all the time you need.” I smiled even though that’s not the answer I planned on giving them.

It’s strange, none of