Chapter 777 Investment Withdrawal
At night, Emma sneaked out of bed when Noah fell asleep. She left quietly to the study and switched on Noah’s laptop. However, she didn’t expect that he would set a password.
Emma gave it some thought and entered her birth date. However, it was incorrect. Then, she tried again with Noah’s birth date, which was also incorrect. Lastly, she gave her last shot and entered Stephanie’s birth date, which turned out to be the correct password.
Conflicting feelings rose in Emma’s heart while she looked at the laptop’s home screen. She murmured while she clenched her fists tightly, “Noah, didn’t you say that you don’t have any feelings for her? Then why would you use her birth date as your laptop password? Or did you gradually develop feelings for her?”
The more she thought about it, the more ironic it felt to her.
But it was not the time for her to be sad. At first, Emma wanted to access Noah’s email. However, she didn’t expect that he had changed the password for his email.
The grimace on Emma’s face deepened. She knew that Noah had his guard up against her now. Back when they were in an affectionate relationship, not only did he give her his email password, but he also gave her the passcode for his bank account. To her dismay, Noah became wary of her after he was married.
Still upset, she tried all three of their birth dates, but none were correct.
Emma then searched through all the folders on his laptop and found the proposal that Noah and a person named June created to destroy the Clinton Corporations. It also recorded the plan where the family of the patient who was electrocuted by the phone made a scene in the company.
Emma scanned through the proposal, hurriedly took out her flash drive, and made a copy. Then, she unplugged her flash drive, wiped out all traces of her using the laptop, and switched it off. She finally felt at ease when the laptop screen darkened.
“What are you doing in the study?” Noah’s voice suddenly sounded behind Emma, and the latter was scared out of her wits.
She frantically hid the flash drive behind her and stammered, “I-I’m here to check if the windows were closed. There was a power outage two days ago, and I lit a candle in the study. But I accidentally left the windows open, and the wind almost blew the candle onto the floor. It haunted me when I was trying to sleep just now, so I had no choice but to get up and check on the windows. I can’t help being paranoid since I live alone. I’m sorry.”
However, Noah was staring at Emma’s hand, which she was trying to hide behind her back. “What are you holding?” he asked.
Emma’s eyes brimmed with tears and turned red.
“Noah, we have been in a relationship for so long now. Don’t you believe me?” she asked pitifully as tears rolled down her face.
Noah’s expression softened a little as he saw Emma crying.
“I just want to know what you are holding. Come on, let me have a look.”
With that, Noah walked toward her. Emma could feel her heart in her throat. If he saw the flash drive in her hand, the consequences would be unimaginable, and their relationship would fall out completely.
She hadn’t gotten any benefit from Oscar yet. Hence, she couldn’t fall out with Noah. Or else, she would lose her source of income and end up on the street.
Suddenly, the phone in Noah’s hand rang while he was approaching Emma as if God had heard her prayers.
Emma immediately felt a weight lifted off her chest.
When Noah saw the caller ID of the incoming call on his phone, his expression immediately brightened up.
He answered the call and asked gently, “Steph, why aren’t you sleeping yet?”
“Where are you? I’m craving pickles and don’t want the maid to get them for me. Can you buy some for me?” Stephanie’s voice sounded from the other side of the phone.
“I’m still in the company to work on some documents. But, if you are craving pickles, I’ll get them for you now. Do you need anything else?”
“I want to have some barbecue skewers too. Can you buy some for me? I’m hungry.”
“Barbecue skewers are not good for your health. How about this? I will get you some pumpkin soup since it’s good for digestion.”
“No, I don’t care! I want barbecue skewers. I’m hungry now.”
“Okay, okay. I’ll get everything for you. I’ll get the maid to prepare you supper first, as I might arrive home after one or two hours later. I don’t want you to starve.”
“Okay.”
After Noah hung up the phone, he looked at Emma and said, “Emma, Steph said she was craving barbecue skewers. I’m going to get it for her now. You know, I have to rely on the Clinton family, so I can’t upset her. You should go back to sleep. I’ll be leaving now.”
With that, he took his laptop and rushed out of the study.
Emma stared at Noah’s back with mixed feelings when he left the study. As she clenched the flash drive in her hand tightly, her heart turned cold.
Noah promised he wouldn’t develop feelings for Stephanie. In fact, he said that a woman like Stephanie, who only knows how to have fun and enjoy life, could never compare to me. However, he chose Stephanie over me and made me his mistress!
What a joke!
He said he loved me, but he left enthusiastically when he received a call from another woman. On the other hand, he only sneaks out to meet me when he has time. Sometimes, I don’t even get to meet him for up to ten days or even half a month.
A plan flashed across Emma’s mind as she stared at the flash drive in her hand. It was better for her to expose what Noah had done to Oscar and walk away with a plump reward than to try to win Noah’s heart.
The next day, Emma gave Oscar a call. She told him that she had the plan Noah created with a person named June and asked Oscar if he was interested in taking a look.
Oscar told her to courier the documents to him and that he would pay her a hefty sum if the information was useful to him.
Naturally, Emma followed his instruction and paid extra to get the documents couriered to Clinton Corporations as soon as possible. The courier company then arranged for them to be delivered immediately.
Oscar briefly scanned through the plan and ordered someone to transfer a sum of money to Emma’s bank account.
Emma called Oscar when she received the money, but the latter did not pick up.
He looked at the content of the plan and scoffed coldly as he finally realized that Noah and June were the masterminds of everything that had happened to the Clinton Corporations.
Oscar didn’t know both of them were so close. He had given the Walker Group a lot of resources out of his respect for Olivia. However, he didn’t expect Noah to be so ungrateful and try to destroy the Clinton Corporations with a foreigner.
What a good plan!
Since Noah was ungrateful, Oscar would not spare him any mercy. He wanted to see if the Walker Group could succeed without the support of the Clinton family.
Without warning, he abruptly withdrew all their investments in the Walker Group, and Noah was caught off guard.
The latter sat in his office and called his secretary over. “Why did the Clinton Corporations suddenly withdraw their investments?” he questioned with a gloomy expression.
“I have no idea, Mr. Walker. Mr. Clinton’s secretary called and told us that the Clinton Corporations want to invest in a big project, and they’re currently short of funds. So, they can’t work with us for now. That’s the only thing they told us.” The secretary paused momentarily, then she asked cautiously, “Mr. Walker, since you’re a relative of Mr. Clinton, why don’t you call him and ask about it?”
However, Noah already had an ominous feeling about the situation. He was certain that Oscar had withdrawn his investments to teach him a lesson not to offend the Clinton family or risk losing everything.
“You may leave now. I’ll ask him personally.”
The secretary nodded in response and left Noah’s office.
Noah gave it a lot of thought before he decided to make the phone call.
After entering the phone number, he hesitated for a while before he finally gave Oscar a call.
“Hello, Oscar.”
“Yes?” Oscar responded placidly.
“Oscar, why did you suddenly withdraw all of the investments? Everything had been fine previously, hadn’t it?”
“I heard that you have a close relationship with June. I don’t like working with someone who took advantage of our family and then ganged up with others to go against me. Since you’re ungrateful, I’ll have to withdraw all our investments. I still have a lot of work to do, so I’m not going to talk to you any further.”
With that, Oscar hung up on him.
“O-Oscar…”
The color immediately drained from Noah’s face, and his hands trembled from fear. He didn’t know what exactly Oscar knew. However, he was sure that the Walker family would be ruined if he didn’t come up with an explanation.
