"No, it's nothing," Jared said with dark eyes. This month's financial statement seemed normal, but it felt like something was wrong with it."Mr. Johnston, there's still no news on Iris," Max said, disappointed. "Was she always so good at hiding before?"Max considered it highly unlikely that Iris had already left San Joto unless she could fly. Despite the size of the city, there were few places for Iris to hide. Where could she hide without being discovered?Jared's expression was gloomy. He did not expect that there would be no information about Iris's whereabouts."Should we call the team back?" Max probed. If the manhunt slackened, Iris might let down her guard and show herself."No. She'll lose patience eventually," Jared replied. She could hide all she wanted, but there would be times she would need to show herself to survive."Yes, sir," Max responded. "I'll send in more manpower.""How is it on Lawrence?" Jared asked coldly. Compared to Iris, Jared felt Lawrence was a bi
"What are you talking about, Steve?" Nicole asked. She thought everything was resolved at Johnston Group, so she was confused when Steve said things were restless there."Wait, you don't know? Did Jared not tell you?" Steve said in surprise.Nicole asked again, "What's going on?""Iris held a grudge after that incident with Jared and teamed up with Lawrence to get back at him. Her plan backfired, and Iris is now wanted by the authorities, but they haven't caught her yet," Steve explained. Assuming Jared did not want Nicole to worry, Steve told Nicole about the recent events.Nicole's face turned white. It was hard to believe the news. "With Lawrence?!"'T-This can't be. How could this be real?!' Nicole thought."Didn't you lend some money to Lawrence before? He didn't actually need it. He just wanted to use you to threaten Jared." Sean sighed. Initially, he was oblivious to the situation. But upon discovering that Jared was searching for Iris, he was able to piece everything toge
Judging from her expression, it seemed like Nicole already knew plenty about the situation."Why didn't you tell me?" Nicole was a little upset, wondering if Jared did not trust her enough to tell her.Jared stretched out his hands and signaled her to come over.Nicole gave Jared a side eye and stood still. Her stance seemed to say, 'Don't bother calling me over if you're not willing to explain things.'Jared shook his head and sighed. Then, he approached Nicole and pulled her down to sit on the sofa beside him."It wasn't intentional. I just felt like it was unnecessary to bring it up." As a matter of fact, Jared did not want to put Nicole in a difficult position. He did not expect her to still find out in the end."Johnston Group is about to be in trouble, and you think it's unnecessary for me to know?" Nicole got angrier. She thought, 'I see. So, he never thought of sharing his burden with me.'Jared grabbed her hands and said gently, "Don't worry. No one has the power to rui
To put it in another way, the huge slide in Johnston Group's stock price was not caused by anyone but an internal system error. The strangest thing was that none of them detected anything weird in the system. There was no trace of being hacked at all."Yeah, that makes sense." Nicole smirked.After going through the system, she definitely made some discoveries. And what she found matched Max's findings.Max widened his eyes in shock. "Ms. Nicole, are you saying that there's something wrong with the management of our company?"He found it hard to accept his findings because he did not see any problem with the employees. After all, they had just gone through a thorough revamp. There were no suspicious people in there.Nicole nodded and explained, "It's a problem with the management, but it doesn't concern the employees. It had something to do with the management system."Max was shocked. "There shouldn't be any problem with the system."Johnston Group's management system was desig
However, Nicole was not going to express any opinion on this matter. After all, win or lose, it all depended on one's abilities.What made her feel angry was the fact that Lawrence would actually make a move on Jared. She never expected that to happen. Yet, she knew that this was not just business competition."If you help him, maybe he might lose a little less," Jared said jokingly.Nicole could not help but roll her eyes at Jared. "Are you mocking me?""If you knew about this, would you have helped him?" Jared questioned."You're being childish." Nicole looked away and chose not to answer his question.If she had known earlier, she would definitely not give Lawrence a helping hand. In fact, she might advise Lawrence to stop. That way, Lawrence would not suffer such a huge loss as well.Looking at how Nicole reacted, Jared got the answer to his question. A smile formed on his face.Then, he tilted his head downwards and left a kiss on Nicole's forehead. With a wide smile, Jare
DING!A notification came from the computer. Jared and Nicole instantly became serious."That's early. I didn't know she was such an impatient person." Nicole gave a look of disdain. Initially, she thought that she would have to wait past midnight for Iris to make a move."She must have thought that no one had noticed her movements yet." Something flashed in Jared's eyes. This was the reason why he did not show any reaction to the matter during the day. He was also trying to make Iris lower her guard by doing so.Nicole nodded slightly as he understood Jared's intentions. However, Nicole wanted Johnston Group to return back to normal after this particular night.Standing in front of the computer, they could see that someone had entered the system. Since there were no warnings that popped up, they were sure that it was Iris who entered the system using the password.Nicole quickly went to work on the computer and searched for Iris's location.Max roughly heard some noise, so he k
It was not up to a secretary to talk about Nicole and Jared's affairs."You don't deserve to be with Jared!" Iris shouted furiously."I don't deserve to be with him?" Nicole snorted. Then, she calmly turned to Jared and said, "It's a pity that we're getting married soon.""No! That can't happen! It's impossible!" Iris instantly broke down and shook her head like a madwoman. She refused to believe it.Nicole narrowed her eyes and spoke in a cold voice. "These are none of your business. No matter what the reason is, they're not valid reasons for you to harm the company. Especially if it's because of your one-sided feelings."Jared did not wrong Iris. And yet, Iris took advantage of his kindness and wanted to ruin Johnston Group completely. That was simply unforgivable!Nicole's words caused Iris to tremble even more. Iris even looked at Jared instinctively.However, she did not expect Jared to ignore her totally. She did not even give Iris one glance.Iris gritted her teeth, and
Iris was trembling badly, as if a basin of cold water had just poured on her head.It made sense. She had lost her chance and she made too many mistakes. It never occurred to her that Nicole was already Jared's wife.By chance, Iris had heard that Jared had a wife in the past. But from what she understood, the lady was long gone. And now, she suddenly returned and was alive with two kids.The siren of the police car sounded in Iris's ears. She knew that everything was over for her. Her face turned pale.Iris remained silent the whole time when she was being brought onto the police car. She seemed to have lost the will and energy to live. Even her eyes looked as if she were in a daze.After watching the police car leave, Max ordered his men to leave. When he was finally alone, he heaved a sigh and shook his head.'Iris is such a fool! Even if Ms. Nicole never returned, Iris would've never had a chance,' Max thought.'If Ms. Nicole never returned and disappeared forever, Mr. Jared