The Billionaire's Unexpected Proposal by Samantha

Chapter 50

The next morning, instead of going to Stone Corp

pas usual, Evelyn headed for her office at Empowered.

She had received a call from Susan the previous night, informing her that the board was having a meeting that morning to discuss disciplinary measures for her, and she was to fish out the person behind the article and their source or face the consequence.

She had come to Ludus for a promotion not to face the consequence of an action that had nothing to do with her, Evelyn thought as she looked out

of the window of her cab.

She was not going to let anyone, not even Sandra or Michael, get away with messing with her integrity in this manner and making people question

ber character.

As she walked into the building, she stopped at the reception stand and asked the receptionist to ask the heads of all the teams to gather in the conference hall for a meeting Instead of going to her office, she went straight to the conference hall to wait for them, since there was nothing for her to do in her office.

Ten minutes later, the heads of each unit came in one after the other and they all sat around the conference table.

Evelyn couldn't believe that the first time she would be addressing her subordinates here would be over an issue like this, and it angered her even

more.

Evelyn looked around at everyone seated at the table, "Im sure I do not need to tell you the reason I called for this meeting." Evelyn said as she TOK and paced around her seat.

"I'm going to go straight to the point. Who released the article on Mr Derek Stone? And on whose order was it released?" She asked as her gaze moved from one person to the other.

The

editor cleared his throat and all eyes turned to him, "The information came in through our tip line from an anonymous source some days ago. We looked into it. Checked old pictures of Derek Stone and the

order?" Evelyn asked and

wasn't I informed before the story was published?" Evelyn said,

she had figured that if someone was doing it to set her up, then the information must have come as an

is all about gossip. How were we supposed to know this would cause such a commotion? It's not like we can inform you about everything we publish here. Besides, you haven't resumed here officially yet,

you all knew I was working on an exclusive with Derek Stone, yet you went on to publish something like this about him. Do you have any

think of that. I'm sorry. I didn't realize it would blow up like this. I just wanted to get the story out there," he said and Evelyn sighed, feeling a wave of frustration "Who is the head of IT here? Is there a way

anonymous callers. Besides, it wasn't like the tip was false," he said and Evelyn massaged her temple. "I guess that's the end of this meeting. You can all leave," she said and

eyes as she made

ng hard and fast.

couldn't believe that there was no way for her to prove her innocence. Inside her office, Evelyn bowed her head as she let herself break down in tears. She didn't know what to do. She was feeling confused, frustrated. angry, and wronged While Evelyn was busy trying to figure out the way forward, Derek was in his office, a frown etched on his face as he wondered why

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thinking about all that had transpired between them from the moment he received

he admitted that he didn't exactly handle things

that she was responsible for the article, but after last night and how she had reminded him of the NDA,

He mused as kept replaying everything that happened from the moment he woke up at the resort to

narrowed his eyes when he remembered how confident Michael had been that it was Evelyn who had released the news when he didn't even

Michael had also talked about Evelyn releasing confidential information which she was supposed

one responsible for all of this? Derek mused

to believe

Why

Michael do such a thing? What did he stand to gain by releasing such