Chapter 62 You’re Taking Her Side

Three days later, Sally was losing it. “Tobias, your daughter’s gone nuts. I just asked her to meet my nephew, and now she’s accusing him of sexual harassment! My family runs a company too, you know. Even if she wasn’t into him, no need to go around slandering him!”

Tobias was fuming. “You’re serious? She went to the police? They’re not even touching it. No evidence.”

Sally stomped her heel. “Tobias, did you forget she’s a lawyer? She could twist anything into anything. She could make black look white if she wanted to.”

Tobias tried to calm her down. “Alright, I hear you. She’s coming back in a few days for her grandma’s memorial. I’ll talk to her then.”

Kaia clocked back in at the firm after her short leave. Warren gave her a once-over, concern all over his face. “Are you okay, Kaia? The Graves Group merger’s on pause till next week. Why not stretch your break a little and get some rest?”

She forced a tired smile. “We only get three days of

bereavement. Anything more counts as PTO.” Besides, too much still needed her attention. She couldn’t afford to just sit around.

Jude called them both into his office. “Kaia, how are you feeling?

Back in the game?”

“I’m good, Jude. Really.”

“Alright. You and Warren are going to Ease Electronics this afternoon for due diligence.”

and

been family-owned for a decade, and the internal drama was a mess. Politics ran deep, which made their

with a cold front. “Ms. Domont, Mr. Wright-here are five years of reports. Contracts? Those

your sales team has backups. Mind

time for

the job. Kaia was used to this. She’d have to work with what

by the sales department with ten cups of milkshake-asking for help. The manager, Camilla, was easygoing and agreed without hesitation. Not

data landed in Kaia’s

smile and left with Warren. Warren threw her a thumbs-up. “Damn, that

Kaia chuckled, “Not bad.”

at her phone-it was a text

be so stubborn.

that before they

the message without a second

work, Tobias

looked curiously at the well-dressed, scholarly-looking man. “Kaia, is that your

go ahead. Tell

calmly toward Tobias’

message I

Kaia’s lips. “Yeah, but

“You’ve been getting more and more disrespectful lately. I’m your father, but you won’t even return

bitter. “So what if you’re my dad? Your wife drugged me and had her nephew try to assault me, and you-my own father-want me to just forget it and pretend everything’s fine so we can all

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