Chapter 281 You Guessed It All?


Cormac watched as Alaric left the office, exited the building, and drove away.

Cormac stayed at the office until very late, holding the flash drive in his hand, feeling extremely guilty and conflicted.

Ambrose: [Once you have the flash drive, Mr. Nash, you can place it in locker 102 at Euphoria Center. As soon as the results come out tomorrow, the promise will be fulfilled immediately.] Cormac walked out of Nexus Innovations with the flash drive. Having already made a mistake, he had no way back and could only follow Ambrose's instructions.

When he closed the locker door, Cormac knew that the wrong deed was done and there was no turning back.

Cormac couldn't sleep at all that night. He didn't dare to think about Alaric's reaction when he found out, nor the consequences this would bring to Nexus Innovations.

But one thing was certain: as long as Aurora was safe, he would turn himself in and report Ambrose's threats.

Although Cormac had no evidence and might even be counter-accused by Ambrose, he had to do it, or he would never have peace of mind.

The next day was the deadline for submitting the design drafts. When Silas received the flash drive and tried to send the electronic draft to the designated email, he found it empty. "Mr. Knight, something is off. The flash drive is empty; there's nothing on it."

"What?" Alaric quickly checked and found it empty as well. They tried to recover the data but confirmed that it had always been empty, with nothing deleted.

"The flash drive was switched," Alaric said.

been switched? It had always been in Alaric's

got anxious. "What do we do, Mr. Knight? The deadline is 10 AM, and it's almost here. There's no time for the designers to

electronic draft was the only one,

phone rang. It was the head of the jewelry company

"Hello," Silas answered respectfully.

East International

small issue here. Could you give us a bit more time? We will soon..."

time, and if we give you an extension, they will surely object. We really can't do that." Silas wanted to

up, Silas asked Alaric, "What do we do now, Mr. Knight? Do we just give

can we do?"

We were so cautious. How is this possible?" Silas uttered. "Enough. It's done. Just inform

surprised by Alaric's decision, but it seemed they

they feared it might be leaked, so they only kept one copy, which

the office. He could almost figure out how things

if things were as he

I'll be home late. You go ahead and take the kids home." "Alright, but don't stay too late. You

I won't be too late," Alaric assured

window, lit a cigarette, and took a slow drag, exhaling

didn't know how much time had passed when the office door opened. Alaric, with his

waiting for him in the office tonight. After all, with such an incident, Alaric would easily

first

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