Chapter 1344:
In what felt like the blink of an eye, night had passed.
The next day, Gerard showed Melvin around the area. They ate, drank, and chatted casually.
At lunch, Melvin glanced up and asked, “Isn’t your wedding tomorrow? Shouldn't you be getting ready?”
“It’s all arranged. | just have to follow the schedule,” Gerard replied, steady as always. “I've just been feeling a
bit anxious, so | figured I'd talk it out to calm my nerves.”
Even if it wasn’t a sweeping romance, there was still a fondness there. And anyone would feel a little jittery
before a wedding.
“Go work,” Melvin suggested, completely deadpan.
Gerard blinked, clearly taken aback.
He looked genuinely puzzled. “Work?”
“Yeah.” Melvin’s tone was entirely serious. “When | get nervous or out of sorts, | work. Ten minutes usually does
the trick.”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“I've got nothing to work on,” Gerard answered nonchalantly. “Over the last few years, | handed off all the
smaller stuff to my two assistants. My boss barely givesanything now—he just takes care of most things
himself.”
“Is he planning to fire you?” Melvin asked without missing a beat.
“No way,” Gerard shot back automatically. Once again, he found himself thinking that Kristian really had
changed. “He said it’s t| settled down, so he gavespace to start dating.”
Melvin paused, visibly surprised.
In his mind, Kristian had always been the kind of boss who drove his team hard. Gerard had complained about it
often. But clearly, people really did change.
“But now that | think about it,” Gerard said, piecing things together, “I feel like he only lightened my workload to
keep himself busier.”
He thought back to all the little moments and added thoughtfully, “These past few years, he’s either been
working overtat the company, staying at the family estate with his parents, or holed up at the villa he once
shared with Freya.”
Isaac and Melinda used to worry about him quite a bit. But somewhere along the line, Kristian must have said
something to put their minds at ease. After that, no one brought up his personal life again—not even the
executives or shareholders at Shaw Group.
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Just then, Kristian showed up.
Gerard spotted him first and greeted him politely.
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His eyes flickered for a second, a faint trace of shock surfacing.
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