Chapter 32

+25 BONUS

The following day, Torrey Co. announced that it would be temporarily halting operations. This made the shareholders panle–halting operations generally meant that something was seriously wrong with the company‘ cash flow! It was highly likely there would be a breach of several contracts if the problem wasn’t immediately dealt with.

Everyone sat in the conference room and waited for Gwen to arrive and make a decision. She’d been managing the company, after all.

Soon, John arrived. Gwen was behind him. When everyone saw her, they hurriedly asked, “What should we do now that operations have been halted, Mrs. Torrey? Everything will be over if we continue like this!”

Gwen wasn’t sure what to do when she saw how panicked everyone was. She’d come to the company to destroy the evidence of her embezzlement because she was afraid of Ariana checking the accounts. Who would’ve expected something like this to happen?

It was all Ariana’s fault! She’d pissed Brian off, resulting in problems with Torrey Co.’s cash flow! The company wouldn’t have ended up like this if not for Brian withdrawing his investment capital.

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worry, everyone. Ariana is the cause of this–she offended Mr. Lodge, making him withdraw his investment capital. I’ll take her to the Lodge residence to apologize to Mr.

even know how to look at ledgers and the accounts! We need you to take over again to

have to talk some sense into Ms. Torrey, ma’am. We can’t afford to offend someone as powerful as Mr.

be ruined if we don’t have any cash for operations to continue!”

forced herself to continue smiling, but she felt even more uneasy. After leaving the conference room, she turned to John and said, “Ariana knows something is wrong with the accounts! Hurry up and make sure everything checks out–we can’t let her find

John wrapped an arm around her waist when

the Torrey residence. She sat before her laptop and watched the surveillance footage. She smirked

before shutting

said, “There are already issues with Torrey Co.’s cash flow, Mr. Lodge. The 50–million–dollar project has been halted, as have their other projects. The Torrey family will

caved yet?” Brian asked.

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