A Love Rekindled

Chapter 48

Not long after seeing Kate off, Cindy left early, leaving me and Caraline to be the only ones tearing our hair out. "They probably won't withdraw their investment," I recalled Kate's words about Bruce. "He will calm the storm down for Cindy’s sake."

Caroline didn't agree with me. "So what if he does? Cindy undermined us today. She could easily claim credit for our work tomorrow. In my opinion, we need to prepare for the worst.”

Caroline meant that they should look for other investors.

But Richard didn’t seem interested. Who else could we approach?

"I heard Samuel knows some people. I want to ask him for help," Caroline piped up.

I was surprised. "Are you still in contact with him?”

Caroline avoided my gaze. "Well, he does well when it comes to... that."

Since it was for the project, I agreed, "Let's give it a try."

For the next two days, Caroline was busy meeting with Samuel.

Samuel was popular in Cloudons before and had quite a wide network. He even knew some foreign investors. More importantly, he promised to help. Caroline and I were on edge and didn't dare to relax even for a moment.

But then, John's call came again. "Nance, Mr. Harold wants you and Ms. Whittaker to come to Roeval right away." This was sudden.

I probed, "Did he say what it's about?”

"He didn't. But judging from Mr. Harold's expression..." John trailed off.

Caroline and I felt a headache coming on. We didn’t know what Bruce was up to.

Half an hour later, we arrived at the president's office.

AS we pushed the door open, Bruce was on the phone, speaking in a2 foreigndanguage. He was fluentin it, and I eouldn't make out a single worethe said. But his tone wasn't very 7 friendly.

After exchanging a glance with Caroline, we patiently waited on the side

After a while. Bruce finally hung up the phone. He glanced at us and asked, "Do you two know why I asked you to come here?" “Just tell us straight, Mr. Harold." I didn't beat around the bush.

Bruce twirled the pen in his hand and cocked a brow. "I heard that you two have been in contact with new investors recently?”

The news had reached him.

‘Haha, I'm still standing strong, and. you're already I in a hurry to find SS someone else?" Bruce sneered."Do yout think anyone would pickup Roeval s leftovers?" t6 -

Caroline and I had a bad feeling about this.

We heard Bruce say, "Since I can't sense any sincerity from you, we might as well call an end to this deal.”© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

We were caught off guard by Bruce's bluntness. He even knew that we were looking for other investors, so why did he suddenly get so angry? Bruce glanced at me. "Things have changed.”

I was suddenly speechless. Who said money can't talk?

Caroline tried to ease things over. "Mr. Harold, we're just a small studio. We can't possibly compete with your company. We..."

"Spea king.of your company’s code .

of condwet,” Bruce interrupted S Caroline, It's really in line with the character of the person in charge."

He glanced at me and added, "You're good at making backups.”

He was being extremely sarcastic.

After a while, John asked us to leave the president's office. In other words, we were kicked out. Caroline was puzzled. "Bruce doesn't seem like a petty man. Why did he suddenly turn his back on us?”

I also felt that Bruce was acting strange today. "Maybe someone has been putting ideas in his head.”