Chapter 48

Pencil skirt. Check.

Enough make up so I didn’t look dead. Check.

All the preparations for the company growth meeting done. Check.

After avoiding returning back to reality, I had no choice but to catch the earliest flight back to attend this meeting held at the company. I had managed to hide away in my quaint apartment in Canada for almost a month before I received this email a week ago from Lucy informing me about this meeting. It was not one to be missed and neither could I attend it remotely.

This meeting was important. It determined the growth of the business and also the standing of the bet which I was still determined to emerge victorious.

It was not a meeting for investors and I had not been expecting any of the investors to be there but that was changed at the last minutes as I got in to my office to gather my things for the meeting. Lucy entered my office after knocking once on the slightly ajar door.

“I’m just dropping by to inform you of a slight change in plans.” She mentioned hesitantly testing the waters before she spoke.

I looked up from the papers that I had been organising. “The meeting better not be cancelled.” I said with a narrowed glare but she shrugged it off.

“No, that is still on but Mr Crawford will be sitting in on the me at her blankly.

I blinked a few times looking

Why? Why was he attending the meeting when he had no business being here. This meeting was for the company team and myself and no external persons.

I waited for Lucy to correct herself but she didn’t. instead she just looked at me for some sort of

response.

“What? Why?” I blurted out, my disapproval to this change of plan audible enough for her to frown and not understand why I was so opposed to it.

and most vital investor. Apparently we do not have much say in

to know about his meeting?!” I demanded to know but she scowled.

part of the meeting. He probably won’t say a word and

trusted and in the past month that I had been away, I had sealed my heart and mind from him knowing that he was no good and I could not trust a

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would be attending. Nothing more.” I

broken off.” I did a double take as she said

are you talking about, Lucy?” I questioned her and she

beneath a rock.

in baffled surprised before closing the door behind her. “No one truly knows what happened between him and his fiance but news broke out shortly after their engagement that they have split. There has been no further explanation and, quite frankly, no one is brave enough to ask Mr Crawford about the real reason it had come to an

better things to worry about.” I said pursing my l*ps. “Either way, his personal life is none of any

fooled me once before about Pheobe’s standing in his life and I was done with him, Pheobe or not. I’d given him

She agreed but

gathered the folder

that I wanted to know before him what the companies progress had been. If it was unfavourable for me then I could buy myself more time and fix it until I

one had already been seated and, by the look of it, had been awaiting my attendance. I frowned thinking that there was no way that I could have been late and checked my

at the end of the large table trying not to pay attention to

head of analysis, who steered us through the figures and highs and lows before her counterpart had taken over to go

the verdict to be delivered about whether or not the company had reached the percentage of

we have managed to boost progress by an impressive 10 percent

can’t be correct.” I blurted out without thinking.

that that figure was wrong. The team had

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