Husband you've abandoned me. Fine, I'll focus on raising my son - Chapter 216 Who do I trust

Chapter 216  Who do I trust

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Jasmine didn’t have a formal education, but she was quite adept and capable; she had an understanding of accounting. As I looked out the window, the realisation that I was learning about her only now. In the past weeks, I had been watching her and her relationship, no fling, with the Carrington. I noticed how different and proactive she seemed.

Why was it that ‘boy’ was the one who got to see this side of her? If I knew she wanted to work or was interested in it I would have allowed it. As she was my arranged wife I thought she wanted to live the closeted simple life at home.

Upon arriving at the HQ I went straight to my office and sat at my desk. About 20 minutes later Edward came into the office and “Sir you arrived earlier than anticipated,” Edward commented when he walked into my office.

“Yes, I finished what I was doing earlier,” I said as my eyes focused on the folders on my desk. “Would you like an update on today’s schedule, so far?” He asked me. “No, continue as normal, I will receive the update later. Don’t disturb me until I call until my schedule officially starts after lunch and that goes for everyone else,” I told him.

His face scrunched up in confusion. “Yes, sir,” he still accepted however.

Upon Edward closing the door behind him I recalled I had to call the laboratory as I had promised Jasmine I would. I took out Jasmine’s phone which I had taken with me and kept in my suit pocket. I switched it on and went to her emails. I had my men remove the password so I could easily access it. I knew Jasmine wouldn’t have given me the password given the situation. I looked in the emails but didn’t see any update from the laboratory. Even when I typed it out. Neither did I see any messages or calls. I called one of one of my men and had them go to the laboratory and inquire about the DNA results.

My focus then returned to the documents on my desk and what I was hoping to understand. I took out the draft papers Jasmine had been talking about from the folder I had brought with me.

Looking at the drafts it was difficult to tell what they were about as Jasmine said. There was no heading label just figures. I then took out the company’s finance reports I had requested Edward to give me. Including all the comprehensive ones I had requested. I wanted to compare the drafts to the company finance records.

For months I had this gut feeling that something was wrong and the company finance records were being messed with but I never found anything wrong when I checked the documents. So I would brush it off thinking I was maybe I was imagining things but having Jasmine affirm this feeling I had me thinking maybe I was right to be suspicious.

Jasmine’s findings heavily suggested that someone was targeting me and perhaps had taken Anthony with that goal in mind.

Perhaps these drafts could could prove it. If the numbers matched some of numbers in the accounting records perhaps I could find something had been changed.

For the next hour I went through document after document looking through all the. Suddenly a phone began ring bringing me out of my thoughts. It was Jasmines phone this which I had put on my desk. I read the name of the caller and a frown formed on my face. It was the Carrington. I watched it ring until it stopped. He was rather persistent I thought to myself in annoyance. I recalled Jasmine asking for her phone earlier and the guilt that weighed heavily on me. He rang again and I declined the call. Then went to the contacts and put his number on block caller.

I felt awful holding onto Jasmine’s things like this but I couldn’t stand the Carrington. I put the phone down and got back to the documents. As I continued to go through the files, I soon realised that this was going to take a bit of work. I would need help to go through them because it was almost the end of lunch, and I had other things to attend to. I had been missing so many work hours in the last days.

Perhaps I could call Edward to get some people from the financial team.

Then I suddenly stopped myself as Jasmine’s words rang in my mind. “The person might be someone who knows a lot about the company” and has access to company documents. They might be an employee, I thought to myself as the realisation hit me. How else would they have gotten company documents unless they work here?

If my gut feeling was right, and someone was messing with the finances of the company, they couldn’t risk the culprit finding out I was onto them. working to find them if I had the finance team investigate. “Then who do I trust?” I asked myself as I put away my earlier thoughts. Who do I get to help go through these documents?

The past week, I had been having trouble with my estate servants and who I could trust after the fire. It just highlighted how much the culprit had infiltrated my inner circles. I couldn’t just suddenly cut down my company employees the same way I had cut down on the estate staff based on how I felt. That would not only violate the HR laws but would also compromise the company. There were thousands of employees who worked for the Acland group compared to the less than 50 that worked at my estate.

I put away the files as I prepared to leave and carry out the tasks I had to do for the day. My mind was contemplating how I was going to go about this situation.

By the end of the day I was feeling confused, frustrated and nervous all at the same time.