Chapter 259

At the very least, its deficit shouldn t have increased year after year.

Caroline continued scrolling, and soon she discovered that there was something off with the company’s accounts.

When she had made a bet with Eddy a few months ago, she had once transferred 500 thousand dollars to Evans Group’s account. However, there was no record of this in the company’s ledger at all 1 Just then, her phone rang again, and the caller asked, “What do you think? Do you want it?”

Caroline inhaled deeply and sald, “Yes. How much is it?”

“One thousand dollars,” he replied.

Caroline blinked, finding it dubious. She thought that perhaps he had missed the word “million.” What she just read should cost more than the price he requested.

She subconsciously tapped a finger on her table as the thought of this being a fraud flashed through her mind.

Caroline didn’t give the private detective Is she suspecting 24h swer, which made him het Turning to look at Charles, who him, he mouthed, Charles composed as ever. But deep down, he was more anxious than the private detective, A moment later, Caroline spoke. “Are you sure that you’re asking for one thousand doll “Yes,” the detective replied nasty Worried that she would regret her decision, he added, “One thousand dollars is enough. Do you want H “Yes,” Caroline told him. “But you have to send it to another email address of mine.”

Later, she gave the detective an email address that she rarely used. Once everything was done, he hung up and humed to Charles, “You clearly had no faith in me.”

Charles tossed him a sideways glance and said. “Stop babbling and send her the information.”

“Okay, fine. Where’s my thousand dollars then?”

He barely finished his sentence when he received a notification on his phone, Glancing at the screen, he carefully counted the zeios.

There were five zeros, which was just the right amount.

He beamed and said, “Thanks a bunch, boss. Don’t hesitate to call me when there’s a task like this in the future.”

Charles didn’t reply. If anything, the private detective should be thanking Kirk instead.

Charles returned to Morrison Corp and knocked on the door to Kirk’s office. After entering the room, he reported his progress. “Sir, we’ve successfully sent the information to the madam”

To be frank, Charles was rather pleased with himself, so he added, “The madam will never know that you’re the one behind this.”

Kirk raised his head from his work to stare at Charles with his piercing eyes, and the latter felt himself shudder from the gaze.

“Is something the matter, sir?” Charles had expected at least a bit of compliment upon completing his mission this time, but it surely seemed like he overthought it.

Kirk handed him a tablet. Charles’s mood flipped upside down after looking at the screen, which displayed a piece of news in the entertainment segment.

It said that Adrian Sorkin and Caroline had married in secret. There were also pictures of them both having dinner together and leaving the restaurant one after the other.

“Don’t tell me that you knew nothing about this.” A frown creased Kirk’s forehead. His tone made it hard to tell if he was fuming with rage or not.

Exasperated. Charles failed to respond. He had been so immersed in trying to find a way to give Caroline the information regarding Evans Group that cost almost a million dollars that he didn’t have the time to surf the Internet.

“I–I’ll contact all the media platforms to remove it from the trending searches section,” he said.

Kirk loosened his tie at Charles’s words, and the icy look in his eyes faded away a little.

Just then, his phone started ringing. It was Sean calling.

The moment he answered the call, he heard Sean’s unrestrained laughter booming from the other end of the line.

*This should’ve been a story about three people, but your name was never once mentioned in it! Kirk, my man, I’ll have a moment of silence for you!”

“Get lost!” Kirk snapped. His face was now as dark as a bottomless pit.

Sean stifled his laughter and joked. “In my opinion, you should just post a picture of your marriage certificate for the world to see.”

Kirk’s knuckles turned white as he said, “Don’t you dare think for a second that I can’t.”

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Ut course you cant Sean exclaimed.

He’d simply called to joke around. It wasn’t his intention to rub salt into the wound, so he said, “You’re Kirk Morrison, after all. Nothing can sland in your way. But it never crossed my mind that you’d one day feel so wronged and disheartened.”

Sean chuckled and added, “So, do you still have it in you to say that you don’t love Caroline?”

He was sure that Kirk loved her and would continue to do so until the end of time.

Instead of coming up with a response, Kirk hung up immediately. This caused Sean to go into panic mode at once.

“What are you standing there for?” Kirk’s brows were knitted closely together when he roared at Charles.

Charles knew this wasn’t the time to laugh. He tried his best lo stifle his laughter and stop the corners of his mouth from tilting upward.” Right away, sirl Right after leaving Kirk’s office, Charles felt that he couldn’t hold back anymore. He darted into the washroom and burst out laughing. Seeing Kirk low–spirited was simply a sight to behold!

On the other side, Caroline asked Cheryl to get her a spare laptop from the company. She then logged in to her email and opened the file. Fortunately, the laptop wasn’t attacked by any viruses.

Quentin immediately plastered on a flattering smile, “My tongue’s misbehaved. Just a slip of the tongue.”

Adrian stared into the lar distance and said, “I just find it mind–blowing that someone has so much power to wipe out everything about it in the blink of an eye.”

Quentin propped his chin up on a hand. “Well who else could it be? Of course It’s the Morrison family.”

1 Adrian turned to look at him.

“I heard that Mr. Morrison Senior is still hoping that Ms. Evans will marry into the family. That’s why he’s been urging his grandson to pursue her.

“You could say that the old man’s wired rather peculiarly. Usually, the rich shun divorcees like nothing else, but Mr. Morrison Senior doesn’t seem to care at all.

“All he wants is to make Ms. Evans…”

Quentin paused. He knew the rest of his statement couldn’t be more insinuating. Hence, he just swallowed the words.

Nevertheless, Adrian didn’t think much of it. “But aren’t Eddy and Layla getting along particularly well lately?”

“Yeah, I heard he’s helping her acquire Evans Group.” Quentin took a cigarette from its pack and slipped it between his lips.

“I guess he’s hoping that the old man would view her in a different light if she becomes the CEO. Who knows, it might even pave the way for their marriage.”

Adrian laced his fingers and rested them on the table. Upon giving it more thought, he agreed that only the Morrisons would do something as absurd as this.

After a pause, he asked again, “How are things going with the investigation for Caroline?”

“No one’s that quick, dude. It hasn’t even been a day yet.”

Adrian pursed his lips and spoke no further.

Right as Caroline got off work, she received a call from Kirk. He told her that he wouldn’t be able to discuss the shooting that night as he had other matters to tend to.

Kirk’s tone on the phone sounded normal. Caroline didn’t put much thought into it before she hung up and headed straight home.

Meanwhile, in a private room, Kirk tugged at his tie and downed a glass of alcohol in frustration.

Sitting beside him, Sean looked at him with contempt. “Is this even necessary? What Caroline and that man have between them is just a rumor, isn’t it? Wait, no, does it even count? The two of them are innocent through and through. They didn’t even hold hands.”

Kirk guzzled another bottle and let out an exasperated sigh. “If you want to get lost, you don’t have to hold back.”

Sean didn’t respond.

He quietly kept Kirk company as he downed more than a few drinks. As time went by, he realized that something seemed amiss.

Kirk was wobbling left and right, and his eyes were glossed over in a daze. It was as if … he were drunk!

The corners of Sean’s lips twitched. He knew exactly how high Kirk’s alcohol tolerance was. There was no way he would get drunk so quickly.

Initially, he thought that Kirk was playing tricks again so that he would have an excuse for Caroline to come by and pick him up.

A couple of minutes later, though, he saw Kirk staggering to his feet. It was then that he knew for sure–

Kirk was truly intoxicated.

In fact, he was completely wasted.

“Kirk?” Sean nudged him gently.

1.2 Kirk impatiently llung nim off, Uont touch me. Unly my wate can touch me.”

Sean was utterly dumbstruck.

Fine, then.

Still the same old model student from the School of Chivalry after all.

“I’ll call Caroline and let her know to come pick you up, then.”

“Don’t.” Now that he was drunk, his usual calmness was nowhere to be found. Instead, there was a touch of cuteness as he slurred, “Don’t call my wife.”

“Why not?”

“I don’t want to argue with her over Jealousy. I don’t want to receive the cold shoulder from her…”

An exhilarated Sean pulled out his phone and started a video recording.

“Repeat what you just said.”

Now that Sean had solid evidence on hand, he couldn’t wait to see Kirk try to deny his love for Caroline the next time around.

However, Kirk suddenly swayed his body