I Am the Sweetheart of Mr. CEO-Chapter 442 - 441: The Girl from Six Years Ago (45)
If her guess was correct, everything he did had originally been for that other girl. Something must have happened to her, which was why he hadn’t been in a relationship for so many years. He was only so good to her because they looked so similar. "MYONLY"—his one and only. He must have loved that girl deeply to have kept her picture from six years ago until now.
Indeed, she was just a stand-in after all. It made sense now; what qualities or virtues did she possess to deserve such profound affection from him? So, that was the reason. She had foolishly believed herself incredibly lucky to have met someone who loved her so much. It turned out to be nothing more than this.
Vera Wave clutched her pillow tightly, her heart aching as if pierced by a knife.
It wasn’t because of his deception, nor because he loved her as a substitute, but because the person he loved was not her. This was what distressed her the most.
Her blurry vision fell on her left hand. She slowly reached out, her fingers closing around the ring on her ring finger. She bit her lip and, finally, began to slide it off, bit by bit. As she did, tears streamed down her face like pearls from a broken string.
Just as the ring was about to come off, she suddenly tightened her fingers, gripping the ring tightly in her palm.
Taking off the ring felt as if it would hollow out her heart; she couldn’t bear to do it.
"What should I do?" She buried her face in the pillow and muttered, "Kris Cooper, what do you want me to do?"
「At this moment.」
Kris Cooper had just returned to his apartment. He casually tossed his jacket onto the sofa, poured a glass of juice from the refrigerator, and immediately took it with him into the study room. From a drawer, he retrieved the documents he had been halfway through reading.
This thick pile of documents contained the results of the investigation conducted by his subordinates in Singapore. All personnel connected to the Kashima project, in which Walter Wave had been involved, were listed in these documents, making the pile quite substantial.
After reading a dozen pages, he casually reached for the glass on the table, only realizing it was empty when he lifted it to his lips.
Putting down the glass, he refocused his attention on the documents in his hand and turned to the next page.
He was busy at the company during the day. Furthermore, Vera Wave had been injured for the past few days, and he also had to take care of her. His time was limited, allowing him to thoroughly review these documents only at night.
Time passed unknowingly. The pages he had reviewed were set aside on the table. He marked those whose identities were questionable with a red pen and then separated those documents from the rest.
Turning to one page, he saw a familiar logo. Kris Cooper’s eyebrows twitched, and he immediately straightened up from his slouched position in the chair.
"Ashton Real Estate?"
He picked up the bound document in his hand and carefully reviewed it.
The document revealed that Ashton Real Estate had also competed for the Kashima project, but the government had ultimately chosen Walter Wave over Ashton.
Kris Cooper’s gaze moved downward, finally landing on the list of personnel at the bottom of the file. The document clearly stated the names of the main people in charge of the project at the time: Christoper Cooper, Kate Palmer.
A project worth billions was not to be taken lightly. Christoper Cooper himself had been in charge of it, with Kate Palmer, the director of the Planning Department, as his main assistant.
Clutching the document, Kris Cooper paced back and forth a few times before reading through the thin file from beginning to end once more. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
He had investigated Walter Wave before, so he naturally knew a bit about Walter Wave Real Estate. Walter Wave had once been a considerable business; although it couldn’t compare to Ashton, it still held a thirty percent market share in Imperial City.
