Bride to Be, Not Me

Chapter 198

Back at the hotel suite, Janice lay down to rest as Edward took care of her.

She sighed helplessly. "I'm not that fragile. The doctor just said to avoid strenuous activity."

"We're in a foreign country. It's better to be cautious."

Edward had doubled the usual number of bodyguards for this trip. He was worried that something unexpected might happen and affect her condition.

When his phone rang, he said, "I'll answer this call."

"Alright."

He stepped into the living room, poured himself a cup of tea, and listened to the voice on the other end.

"Onley Group is preparing to enter the domestic market ahead of the competition. It looks like the entire family is moving back to the country. Those crochet designs that suddenly made waves in the international competition all came from them. "They've been secretly hiring retired seamstresses at high prices to build their reputation and establish a foothold in the domestic market."

The voice continued, "Onley Group's approach has always been the same-throw money at the problem first. If that doesn't work, they'll crush any opposition. They ensure that seamstresses who refuse to join them have nowhere else to go, so they're forced to either give up the craft entirely or submit to Onley Group.

"Your girlfriend is lucky she's a local. Otherwise, she might not have escaped their tactics."

abroad working under them. They were experts at monopolizing the industry. In the past, the top seamstresses and

she also refused to work for them. Onley Group wasn't just trying to suppress

focus was investigating what had happened to Janice. "I got

soon as possible. The people from

on the phone belonged to Theron Yates, Edward's late grandfather's former secretary. The Moore family addressed him respectfully

once been among the most powerful figures, and Theron had

Theron continued to watch

Yates,"

more thing. There's someone else you should know about. It's Zedrick Jovarek, the heir to

Janice also received a

was from Cortez Thorne, who had once helped her mother.

the country? Are they

and boutiques. But why bring in seamstresses? They arrived by

went on, "I heard you're working at Prosper Stitch Group and doing well. Keep an

home for the

seamstresses had gone abroad. Even

this information. As someone in the logistics business, he had access to

abroad when she passed away, so he hadn't known about it. That was why he was unable to help the two children

that in mind.