Mr Billionaires Secret Baby

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.

much say in the matter unless we wish to cause detriment to ourselves.” She warned me with tightly pressed

know but how on earth did he even get to know

what the big deal is if he is a part of the meeting. He probably won’t say a word and will sit as a bystander and nothing more. She said rationally but she did not know

heart and mind from him knowing that he was no good and I could not trust a word he said. It

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by surprise that he would be attending. Nothing more.”

did a double take as she said not, my ears rejecting what I

about, Lucy?” I questioned her and she looked at me like I had

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

way, his personal life is none of any of our concern.” I said but more as a reminder to

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

but very half

meeting. I gathered the folder

it was unfavourable for me then I could buy myself more time and fix it until I reigned in enough growth that Dante would lose the bet but if it worked to my benefit then I wanted to have a grand ‘in your face’ moment. His presence denied

at the boardroom, I noticed that every 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

I took the remaining seat at the end of the large table trying not to pay attention

meeting had commenced and was conducted by Jenna, our head of analysis, who steered us through the figures and highs and

breaths for the verdict to be delivered about whether or not the company had

changes that occured to the company, we have managed to boost progress

can’t be correct.” I blurted

was too little and I knew that that figure was wrong.

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