She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Left Me With Walls, Wheels, and Wounds 279

Chapter 279 Keeping The

Boss Happy Is Part Of My.....

"I figured as much." Freya's tone was heavy,

She had spent the last couple of days painstakingly sifting through every detail, but something still didn't sit right.

She couldn't quite put her finger on what it was, so she had roped Jacob in to help her test the waters.

"If you really want to know, help me break the third door's code tonight, and I'll show you," Jacob offered.

"No need." Freya was never one to push. "As long as Lawrence can save Kristian, whatever secrets he's hiding don't matter."

"Alright."

"Thanks for helping."

"It's nothing."

The call disconnected.

Only then did Freya turn back to her conversation with Gerard.

Under normal circumstances, if Gerard had discovered she was K, he would've been practically buzzing, probably shoving a notebook in her face for an autograph.

But right now, aside from that brief flicker of emotion when the truth came out, his mind was still tangled up in thoughts of his boss.

"Is Mr. Shaw really doing that badly?" He glanced at Freya, who was seated just ahead and to his right, his expression clouded with concern.

"Yes." Freya didn't elaborate. She swiftly signed the document laid out before her. "If anything worries you during this time, just come to me."

She signed a confidentiality agreement on Gerard's behalf.

Given her dual identity as the head of Anita International and an investment advisor for Briggs Group, she wanted to spare Gerard from any unnecessary burden.

"You really don't have to do this," Gerard said, sincerity in his voice. "I trust you."

"I know." Freya had always known Gerard was a decent man. "That's exactly why I should give this to you."

Gerard felt a tangle of emotions he couldn't quite name.

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did have a good

then, she and Kristian would've been the kind

"There's something I'd like you to do

"Go ahead," Gerard said.

I had anything to do with Shaw Group's affairs. Don't mention

want to get into another argument with

Gerard looked puzzled. "Why?"

Kristian know who helped

sugarcoat it, even if she knew Gerard wouldn't get it. "If he finds out after

just wanted Kristian to get better, and when that

line, wanting to speak but holding

me," Freya said, handing him the

"Okay." Gerard accepted it.

left, Gerard finally made his way to

himself. There was no way he could pass the reins

stay

Kristian's condition. Isaac had been crystal clear-no leaks, not even a

wouldn't recover anytime soon, Freya had already put online safeguards in place. Anything concerning Kristian was blocked before it even had a chance

it to keep Melinda and Lionel in the dark, to spare them the

leaving the office, Freya returned to her car. She dropped into the driver's seat, leaned back, and

only today, through Gerard, that she pieced together what Jacob meant

before the last one.

the day she told him she was being taken away, he was still lying in a hospital bed, burning

and before it broke, he had sat on the beach, enduring

worse.

gunshot alone wouldn't have caused

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thought left a

If she had known, from the moment she signed those divorce papers, she should've vanished somewhere quiet-no laptop, no phone,

wouldn't have spiraled this

on the window pulled

find Ellis standing

flickering in his gaze.

straightened and rolled the

to take you somewhere," Ellis said, one hand tucked

warm.

she steeled herself and said, "It's work

without a reason, I'll

boss happy is part of my assistant duties," Ellis replied with

Freya was speechless.