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.

0.0%

11:22

+4

X+

X+

**

III 0 <

Keeping The Boss Happy Is Part Of My

really did have a

back then, she and Kristian would've been the kind of couple people

second before continuing. "There's something I'd like you to do for

"Go ahead," Gerard said.

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

Freya didn't want to get into another argument with

Gerard looked puzzled. "Why?"

Kristian know

doesn't want to owe me." Freya didn't sugarcoat it, even if she knew Gerard wouldn't get it. "If he finds out after he recovers, it'll

to get better, and when that day came,

his lips into a thin line, wanting to speak but

you need anything, call me," Freya said, handing him the signed

"Okay." Gerard accepted it.

Freya left, Gerard finally made his

way he could pass the reins back to

treatment, Gerard had to stay sharp and keep a tight

he couldn't let word get out about Kristian's condition. Isaac had been crystal

apparent that Kristian wouldn't recover anytime soon, Freya had already

all of it to keep Melinda and Lionel in the dark, to spare

the office, Freya returned to her car. She dropped into the driver's

pieced together what Jacob meant about

before the last one.

that on the day she told him she was being

before it broke, he had sat on the beach, enduring the cold sea breeze all night, only making

worse.

gunshot alone wouldn't have

24.5%

+

11:22

<

Boss Happy Is Part Of

a knot

had all unraveled like this. If she had known, from the moment she signed those divorce papers, she should've vanished somewhere quiet-no laptop,

things wouldn't have spiraled

tap on the window pulled

opened her eyes to find Ellis standing outside, a

flickering in his gaze.

and rolled the

somewhere," Ellis said, one

warm.

go anywhere, so she steeled herself and said, "It's

a reason,

is part of my assistant duties," Ellis replied with a deadpan expression,

Freya was speechless.