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"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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really did have a good

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

paused for a second before continuing. "There's something I'd like

"Go ahead," Gerard said.

anything to do with

into another argument with Kristian. "Just say it

Gerard looked puzzled. "Why?"

Kristian know who

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

when that day came, they'd go back to being strangers-just the way

thin line, wanting to speak but holding it

Freya

"Okay." Gerard accepted it.

finally made

most of the responsibilities in the office himself. There was no 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 clear-no leaks, not even a

moment it became apparent that Kristian wouldn't recover anytime soon, Freya had already put online safeguards in

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

into the driver's seat,

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

before the last one.

forgiveness had hit him so hard, or that on the day she told him she was being taken away, he was still lying in a hospital bed, burning with

fever for days, and before it broke, he had sat on the beach, enduring the cold sea

worse.

for that, maybe the gunshot alone wouldn't

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thought left a knot in Freya's

it had all unraveled like this. If she had known, from the moment she signed

things wouldn't

the window pulled her from

to find Ellis standing outside, a shadow of

flickering in his gaze.

and rolled the

said, one hand tucked in

warm.

exactly in the mood to go anywhere, so she steeled herself and

reason, I'll have your

is part of my assistant duties," Ellis

Freya was speechless.