Trouble in Paradise by Three Way

Chapter 0424

I did not stay in Jay Caldwell & Co. for long as I had a dinner that night. The project manager from Hawk Corporation had invited me for dinner.

I had purposefully leaked the Information to Frances, so I was not the slightest bit surprised to see her sitting at the side of the table when I entered the private room.

The project manager got up and greeted me respectfully as they shook my hand. I turned to look at Frances coldly, only to see her fidgeting in her seat.

She looked extremely uncomfortable. It seemed that after all this time, she had still failed to realize that the gap between us had grown incredibly large. After the usual pleasantries, I pretended to have finally spotted her as I went to greet her. "Ms. White, I didn't expect to see you here today." Frances/smiled and said, "Lily told me that you're planning to increase your investments in this project."

I immediately understood why she was there. She had already pieced together what was happening and could no longer watch from the sidelines.

I did not answer her as I turned to look at Lily unhappily, Lily quickly got up and poured me a glass of wine as if trying to deny Frances' claims.

Frances also knew that everyone in the industry had always been cautious to not be so frank with their words. That's because one wrong word might cause someone to fall into the other party's trap.

But after acting as the madam of the Hawk family for so long, she was no longer as thoughtful and considerate of other people.

The atmosphere immediately tensed. After recalling that my goal today wasn't to put Frances in her place but to tempt her, I quickly stood up to smooth things over.

I said, "There are indeed some issues with the investments. Whether I continue investing or not still depends on what Lily says next."

Upon hearing this, Lily instructed her assistant to hand me a document. She stood beside me and said, This is a report of our project's progress.

planned to finish the project within the

Corporation had originally planned to come up with 50% of our

there's a very serious

before rolling her eyes and placing her focus back

long time now. I have

second Lily finished her sentence, Frances interrupted her and said anxiously, "How

at of my money into the

my death if I can't get a single time back from this investment. Ariana, you're the one who asked me to invest in this project. You need to take responsibility. You can't let me lose all my ity scoffed and said, "Ms. White, I'm sure you know that each investment has its own risks

funding had been placed on hold ever since Mr. Hawk's

joined the finance department, every request

problem."

as she said, "Why was I uninformed about

that Lily and Frances were about to start arguing. I quickly

the problem before pointing fingers

be difficult for

find another corporation to cooperate with us and bring in more investors. That will help us minimize our

to increase their investments and promise to divide the profits

excitement grew as she clapped her hands

investing up to ten million dollars. But if we were to remove those restrictions,

on

amount