Skylar fumbled for the light switch as she got home at dawn. The expensive furnishings did nothing to mask her loneliness in such a big and empty house.

Skylar would always take a shower and head to bed once she got home. As long as Tobias was not around, she would not enter his study.

However, she had been sleeping poorly for the past few days despite her exhaustion. She often lay awake on the bed for hours on end.

Skylar suspected that she was stressed out. Work, relationship, and friendship problems all played a role.

She entered the study and sat on Tobias’ chair. She began flipping through the neatly arranged documents on his desk.

She did not understand a thing—the documents were full of complicated jargon in both Ustranian and Chanaean. All the documents had Tobias’ signature on them.

 

Flipping to the bottom of the stack, she saw the words “Quest Group” on the last page.

The Quest Group was Thomas’ company. When he had first established it with his wife Irene, the industry was amazed at their decision to go into business together as a couple.

 

was that Miranda had been the victim in Thomas and Irene’s seemingly

funds from Irene’s family to establish

bound for ruin.

Group had plans to acquire

had never been one to

though, she pulled out her phone and took a picture of the document. She wanted to ask Tobias if his decision to buy

it were not for special reasons, Tobias would never have considered

on his desk back to its original

on the computer and browsed its contents. The clicking noises

interesting from her digging. The only games on the computer were minesweeper and

games are as

Tobias’ study did the trick. She

ring. The ringing grew louder just

her eyes still closed. Upset at the disturbance, she answered angrily, “Who are you? Why are you calling in the middle of the night? I don’t want a loan or any expensive liquor deals. I’m not looking

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