Nancy placed her hands on his hips. “Investigate? Does it mean that you have a lead and that you know who did it?”
Nancy was extremely sharp to decipher his words. Jory was naturally not going to lie. “I’m not sure yet. I just called him but he didn’t answer.”
“Perhaps, you can get through now?” Nancy gave him an encouraging glance. “Why don’t you try again?”
After waiting for another thirty-seven second, both of them gave up on calling him. Jory turned off his phone. “When you arrived just now, I was about to head over to see him.”
“The reason I rushed over was because of this too…” Nancy sighed. “Joan and Larry must be devastated to hear the news in the morning. After all, it has been a long time since something like that happened.”
Staring at her anxious expression, Jory asked, “You do care a lot about them, don’t you?”
Nancy nodded without hesitation. “Of course, they are my best friends.”
Before Jory could respond, Nancy dragged him into her car. “Come, let’s go and find the culprit. We need to question him on what his motives are. I don’t believe he has fled just because he isn’t answering his phone.”
Jory had wanted to say something to defend Dustin. But, when he grabbed onto her hand, the words that left his mouth were instead, “Let’s go in my car. Or perhaps, I’ll turn on my GPS and you can just follow me in your car.”
Nancy smiled helplessly. “Does it matter whose car? Come, let’s go.”
At Norton Corporation, Larry had learned his lesson from the last time. Instead of going through the front door, he entered via the back door with Joan. Upon reaching his office, he realized that the main entrance had been swarmed with reporters who were waiting for their appearance.
“Luckily, we managed to avoid them.” Joan patted her chest to calm herself down.
Larry remained expressionless as he was used to it by now. “What’s the use of avoiding them? What is done is done. Unfortunately, we do not have a solution as of now.”
Joan held his hand in an attempt to give his cold hands some warmth. “There has to be a solution. There definitely has to. We will face this together.”
Larry smiled back at her as he clasped the hand that held onto his. Both of them were like travelers of the south pole desperately trying to survive the cold by giving each other warmth.
The moment he walked out of the elevator, Larry received a message from the largest shareholder of Norton Corporation. Joan too, peeked over to read the contents of the message.
It stated: Shareholders’ meeting in ten minutes.
Despite how short the message was, Joan’s heart dropped when she saw it. Tightening her grip on Larry’s hand, she choked, “Can it be t-that they…?”
Larry massaged her palm with his thumb as if he was trying to rub her worries away. He softly reassured, “No, they won’t. I didn’t do anything wrong. Hence, they have no reason to strip me of my power and position yet.”
Ever since the previous misunderstanding, Larry was no longer as brazen as he used to be. Instead, he was now filled with a sense of calmness and humility that wasn’t there before. Hence, Joan could see a shadow of his former self from his words. To her, he seemed exceptionally confident and she could recognize that the invincible Larry was back. Therefore, when he said they would be fine, she definitely believed that to be the case.
The atmosphere at the shareholders’ meeting was tense. Everyone’s expression couldn’t be any more solemn. All the attendees had taken their seats and were waiting for Larry’s arrival.
The meeting room was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop. The only sound that could be heard was Larry’s footsteps and the beating of their own hearts.
