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.

 

did not know was that Miranda had been the victim in Thomas and Irene’s seemingly perfect

Irene’s family to establish

given birth to a male heir, their marriage was bound for ruin. She could not keep up with the grandeur

right then that the Ford Group had plans to acquire

had never been one to pry into Tobias’ business

the document. She wanted to ask Tobias if his decision to buy

decline. If it were not

everything on his desk back to its original

switched on the computer and browsed its contents. The clicking noises from her mouse were jarring

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

are as bland as his

like the documents in Tobias’ study did the trick. She fell into a

grew louder just as she was about to dismiss it as a

phone with 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 for a

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