Husband you've abandoned me. Fine, I'll focus on raising my son - Chapter 254: Miscellaneous expenses

Chapter 254: Miscellaneous expenses

JASMINE’S POV

I had to figure out out how to communicate with Louis I thought to myself as I read through the financial documents. The first step of getting Keith to give it back to me was done.

The phone was obviously being monitored by Keith. The minute he saw me call Louis it was over.

It’s odd that my theory was right, though. I occasionally glanced up at him as I worked. I thought of the folder full of pictures of me

I would have never guessed Keith’s feelings without the folder in his office. Throughout the 7 years before Diana arrived, we were never affectionate toward each other. At least not like this. He touched and been more attentive to me in the past week than in the whole 7 years.

Mind you, those images in those folders were taken whilst he was still with Diana and supposedly planning to marry her. The entire reason he had abandoned Tony and me was because of her. So where did this obsession come from? Throughout our entire marriage, he told me he had strong feelings for Diana, and that’s why I should never expect love from him. So what the hell happened in the last few months since I came back?

“Shall we go home?” Keith asked me.

I blinked as I was brought out of my thoughts and looked up at him in surprise.

I looked at the giant clock on the wall and saw it was 8pm already. I hadn’t even realized since I was so engrossed by the documents and my thoughts. We were working late lately. Keith was balancing the investigation and his work schedule so thats what took more time.

“Uh, yes,” I replied as stared at him. He then held out his hand for me to to take.

I stared at it for a moment before I took it and he helped me up as. How I wish I could crack open that skull and understand what he’s thinking. He seemed eager and was getting me more comfortable with being more affectionate with me. Though I knew deep down he also closely watching me as well.

What do you want from me in the end? Do you really expect me to accept everything you’ve done and we move on like this?

Regardless of his confusing desires, I wouldn’t continue to soften up though. If being kinder to him got me my phone back I imagine it would eventually make him lower the surveillance on me.

We arrived at his estate and after having dinner together and talking briefly we then split up and I went to our separate ways for the night.

All through the night I continued thinking of how I could contact Louis.

I was in the seating area of my bedroom everything laid out on the table in front of me. I knew Keith wasn’t in his bedroom he would stay in his home office. Looks like neither of us were able to sleep. I checked the time on my phone on the table next to the documents and saw it was around 3am now.

My eyes lazily glanced from the document and back to the draft paper as I continued to contemplate.

I reached the end of the document as I always have and then flipped over to the next page when something suddenly clicked in my mind. I went back to the eyes suddenly caught something.

The some of the figures were the same… I almost missed it because my mind was distracted.

Now alert I reexamined the the rough draft and the Acland document. Keith had said that he felt something was wrong whenever he checked financial reports and the budgets always exceed what he anticipates but the numbers always add up when he investigates further and checks the numbers closely.

I looked down at the document I was inspecting, it was from 5 years ago. I just read through it. It was a project where a budget of 10 million USD was approved but the expected budget was 7 million. That is 3 million dollars that should have been saved. However, looking at the Acland document, it shows 6 million was used for vendor payments and 4 million was used for miscellaneous expenses bringing the total to 10 million dollars. All the expenses are accounted for.

My eyes then flicked to one of the draft paper and my eyes focused on the section I had read that had raised alarm bells.

It showed what at first seemed like a random 10 million dollar figure which matched the budget of the project. But then is had further deductions that followed afterward of 6 million.

Then from the remaining 4 million there were further deductions of 3 million. I compared the two documents more closely and them noticed something. My eyes went back to the Acland document.

It looks like 3 million dollars was taken from the project budget and then put in miscellaneous expenses in the Acland document. The actual money spent was 7 million dollars for the project 3 million was supposed to be returned. My eyes widened at the realisation.

This just might be it. The piece of evidence that drafts do in fact contain accounting information from the Acland Group. The culprit working with Diana was stealing from the Acland group.

Immediately I got up my seat and ran to the door.

“Ma’am?” The bodyguards said nervously as they came toward me. Preventing me from moving around too much.

“Call Keith, tell him to come here now!” I instructed them. I was sure he was awake and still working

After about 5 minutes Keith came to my room. I was pacing back and forth as I waited.

As I had expected, he hadn’t been sleeping. He then came to the seating area where I was and looked at me

“Jasmine, you should be asleep,” he commented as he approached the seating area.

“Keith, none of us can sleep in this situation,” I told him the reality. His lips pressed to gather.