A marriage deal with billionaire stone (Ivy and Silas)

Chapter 70: Thomas Stone; Alcohol And Guilt.

"What? How is that possible? What happened?" Silas probed, his voice sharp with

concern.

Thomas swirled his glass before gulping down. His chest pounding with guilt at the lie he just told his brother. Not a lie, he thought, not the truth either.

"I just found out," he said.

"Do you know who it is?" Silas asked.

"Nope, but I'm working on it. Don't worry," he said in a small voice trying to sound reassuring.

"Do you need help?" Silas asked. "I could hire extra hands."

"No, no," he said, "but I appreciate the gesture. Don't worry I'm working on it."

"Alright bro," Silas said softly.

Thomas poured another glass of vodka and sipped. The cold sensation hit his chest, melting away his guilt. "Thank you for bringing back Sonia. Send my regards to Ivy."

"Sure," Silas replied. "Wade's been calling you."

"I'll get back to him. Thanks," he said softly so Silas wouldn't clock that he was dismissing him.

"I'll come see you tomorrow," Silas said. "My regards to Rosie."

"Thank you, Si. Goodnight."

"Goodnight," Silas said before hanging up.

Thomas dropped the phone on the table and turned to the window. The lights in the distance calmed him as he drank his vodka.

He was supposed to be glad Sonia was doing business with him again. He had seen her missed call, but his thoughts were too jumbled to talk to her yet. The situation of things were robbing him of his excitement.

He turned away from the window and sank into his chair. He glanced at his wristwatch. It was late. Yet he didn't want to go home, he just wanted to bury himself in work and forget everything.

A knock on the door pulled him from his thoughts.

"Come in," he said, refilling his glass. He didn't care if his staff saw him like this.

Sabrina walked in, her laptop in her hand. "Evening sir."

Successfully unlocked!

"Hey, Sab," he said, waving her in. What did you find?"

sat down across from him. "The email's been

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Thomas Stove, Alcohol And

reply?"

"Nothing yet," Sabrina said.

sent a mail to one of his clients, Mr. Anderson,

his password before the information

follow-up email, stating the initial one was a mistake meant for someone else. He couldn't tell his client he was

right now with everything he was already going through, he couldn't possibly lose another client. He had hoped Sabrina could do some tech things that could reveal who sent the

a genius like Sabrina

to

regret. "But the team is working on it." Thomas nodded again, taking another sip of his drink. The leak was the least of his problems at the moment, but

Dr Albert's earlier message. He

phone buzzed. Sonia again. This time,

he said, forcing

reach you," Sonia said

He couldn't possibly tell her he had ignored everybody's call. "Thank you for coming back, Sonia. I appreciate it and I promise that the whole thing will never happen again," he said. His heart plummeted at his statement as

be the one apologizing, Thomas," Sonia said. "Mistakes happened. I should

"Would you be willing to share the

enthusiastically. "That wouldn't be an issue at all. I'll have my

heaved a sigh of relief. "Thank you so

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nice doing business with you Sonia said. He

was smiling.

it is."

sister-in-law is awesome by the way,

he said with

awesome, he just didn't trust her completely. And Slas? He

Sonia said. "Is next week a good time to meet so

"Yes," he replied.

See you next week," Sonia

night, Sonia," he said,

his

was the only way to

he was being investigated, he hadn't been himself. Even though the media weren't talking about him like before, he still couldn't get himself to

And then clients left.

And then the miscarriage.

his drink before the pain could get to his chest and refilled

phone rang again. He picked and saw that Rosie was

just wanted to

having to face her.