The CEO's Empathy Pregnancy Pains

Chapter 222 Old Memories

Roger was the first to leave, trying to keep his pride intact.

Alice couldn't stick around and inconvenience Michael and Emily any longer, so she quickly grabbed the embarrassed Luna. "Sorry, Michael, we gotta go. Emily, I'm really sorry."

But Luna, still clueless, yelled out, "Alice, are you nuts? Why are you apologizing to them? They should be the ones saying sorry. They owe us..."

"Shut up!" Alice cut her off, dragging her away and vanishing into the crowd.

The conference room was left in an awkward silence.

Emily took a deep breath. Seeing that Michael still wasn't letting her go, she gave a couple of coughs.

Michael snapped out of it and quickly released her hand.

With a weary smile, he said, "It's okay now."

Emily knew Michael was just trying to make her feel better.

The Ward family was circling them like vultures. Except for Alice, everyone seemed to have a bone to pick with the Smith family. And what debts has The Smith Corporation not settled yet?

Emily was clueless. She only knew that for now, things were settled, but the Ward family would be back, and more trouble was on the horizon.

some serious insistence from Emily, Michael finally spilled

when Emily realized that these families, who seemed so close and friendly, were actually scheming against each other. Even though Michael's dad treated Roger like a true friend, it didn't

was critically ill, while Michael was still young and Mason fell sick unexpectedly. This left the Smith family in a

thought, letting

friend's help, but once Michael's dad passed away and the Smith family lost its leader, Roger did a complete 180. He not only

his shares to create rifts within the Smith family, trying to take control of the whole

just wanted him to have a major shareholder status to make things easier, but

this, Emily finally got

terms, the Ward family was raking in the 10% profit from the shares without lifting

feel angry. "Then what does Mr. Ward mean by repaying

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to save Smith Corporation. Roger was happy to help, but my dad was always worried it would mess with

he verbally promised Roger that if Smith Corporation couldn't make it, he'd give him half of the company when it was sold as compensation. If it did survive, he'd

hesitated for a

Emily caught on quickly.

now? He wants both the

But I didn't expect... Roger secretly recorded it and messed with it, making things as complicated as they

trouble before. Today was the first time. Alice is totally against

up in ages, came with his second daughter. It looks like he's dead set

must be facing something big. Roger's determined and prepared. Otherwise, he wouldn't have made such a scene today. We need to come up with a strategy fast. We can't

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