Chapter 34: Chapter 34

Jace saw something on the table. She approached the center table and his fingers picked the pink doll which lay on the table. Looking closely at it, it looks childish. Could it belong to his wife? Well, the doll looks cute. He's not a fan of all this stuff but he doesn't know why he found this particular small pink doll cute. He dropped it back on the table and walked towards the bathroom. After taking a warm bath, he got ready for work. After dressing up, he looks like the prince charming he is, so handsome.

He's about ambling out of the room but his eyes caught the pink doll once again. He picked it up and tossed it inside his trouser pocket.

Leaving the room, he sauntered downstairs before heading towards the parking lot where Victor is already waiting for him.

Victor greeted him and bowed slightly before opening the door for him. Victor in turn took the driver's seat, putting on the ignition, the car slowly drove out of the colossal compound. Two other cars followed behind them.

“Mike called, he said that some of the shareholders are threatening to withdraw their shares because of the huge amount of money missing from the company's pocket," Victor said. The car is already moving on the smooth black road.

“What the fuck…. When did money start missing from the company's pocket." Jace looks confused, his eyes are also going through some files that Mike recently sent to him in his phone.

“I'm confused as well. I don't know what is going on these past few weeks we were away."

“And what was Mike doing? I trusted everything in his care. Move the car faster!"

He ordered. Victor followed his orders and increased the speed of the car. In less than a few minutes, the luxurious car parked in the spacious underground parking lot of the huge company.

Jace didn't even wait for the door to be opened for him. He quickly opened the door himself and hastily walked towards the elevator. He's furious right now, the files Mike sent to him was boiling his anger.

His bodyguards waited behind, he only went up to the sixteenth floor which is the conference floor—with Victor.

His secretary was already waiting there for him, she passed him some files. He flipped through the pages and threw it to her.

“What the heck is this! How did this happen!" He yelled. His secretary could do nothing but flinch in fear. Mike came immediately as he tried to explain things—the sixteenth floor was in commotion.

“What the fuck is going on Mike? Explain!"

Mike gathered his spirit, this is not the time to let Jace's husky voice scare him. He needs to speak fluently without stuttering to be able to explain things.

“I do not know how this happened. It just happened all of a sudden. This morning, the shareholders requested to have their shares back. They called an emergency meeting claiming that a lot of money was missing from the company's money and it was traced that you were the one who took it," Mike carefully explained.

Jace scoffed, this is ludicrous. How can a huge amount of money suddenly start missing from the company and they blame it on him?

“Where the heck is the chief financial officer?!"

He yelled, walking into the conference room. The chief financial officer is there with other top officials in the company together with the shareholders. The conference room was in chaos but once Jace walked in, everywhere was silent. Jace stood tall as his eyes scanned through every face in the room. The traitor, no traitors are among them. They couldn't maintain eye contact with him as they all looked elsewhere except looking at Jace.

After a long silence with Jace glaring at each person in the room, he gracefully took his seat. All the mouths that were running before he walked couldn't say a word again.

“So no one is going to speak, are we going to stare at ourselves all day?" His voice was as cold as ever.

A few seconds of silence went by before one of the shareholders stood up.

“Two hundred million dollars is missing from the company's money. That's a huge amount of money that could affect our shares in this company. The evidence we gathered pointed at you. It is either you pay back the money or we withdraw our shares from the company," Mr Brandy said.

After his speech, Jace laughed out loud. They have evidence against him? Such idiots. He knows the evidence they are talking about is fake so he didn't bother himself about looking at it.

His laugh is so menacing that it brought fear more than confusion to everyone in the room. They glanced at themselves, why is he laughing over such matters. Has he sensed their dishonesty?

“Martins." The coldness from his voice made the chief financial officer to greatly flinch.

“S…sir," he stutters.

“What happened to the money?" His dark eyes were boring into his, making the man shiver…. he couldn't utter a word.

“I…I…"

“Mr Martins knows what happened to the money. If you guys know how you fabricated the evidence that led to me. Do the same and bring back the money." There was no expression on Jace's face as he spoke those words. He stood up to walk away from the conference room. These people are so funny, how could they create such a lame plan.

“Mr Williams, we know that this is your company but we are talking about our money here. We could sue you to court," one of the shareholders practically said.

Jace sniggered, “You can take me to court, I can assure you that you will be the one to end up in jail. Like I said, you guys should bring back the money you took."

His voice laced with authority, he didn't waste any time as he walked out of the conference room. The chaos once again arose in the conference. They couldn't believe the fear that took over them just because of that young man, they are all older than that boy but his presence alone frightened them.

“What should we do? Jace, this is not a measly matter,"Victor said as they were walking towards the elevator.

“Gather our loyal men and have them spy and investigate each of the shareholders and the officials."

“I will do that right away. I don't know why but I'm having a feeling that Kevin, your cousin has something to do with this."

Jace stares up from his phone and places his attention towards Victor. “What do you mean?"

“Kevin is very jealous of your success. You are not only building your company to a great height, you might as well take over the family's company. The company is going to a great height because of you so it's possible that your grandfather might make you the CEO after him, " Victor replied. They are already inside the elevator going up to the nineteenth floor where Jace's office is located.

“Kevin, that fool… how dare he meddle with my company. Have our men gather enough evidence to expose those shareholders and the chief financial officer. Once everything is settled, I will have those fools withdraw their shares and I will strip the chief financial officer off his position."

“Don't you think making them withdraw their shares will affect the company?"

“I will take care of it, you don't need to worry. I will rather have the company fall than have those traitors around."

Getting to his office, he handled some things. Victor has already contacted his men and they have set off to work. After spending a long time in the office. Victor drove him home.

“Are you really going to perform at Phillips' birthday party? The situation is tight to give such stuff attention," Kevin said as they drove home.

“I've already given him my words," Jace simply replied.

When they arrived at the mansion, they met Kevin in the living room, it looks like he's purposely standing in the living room. Jace gave Victor a nod to go ahead, he bowed his head before walking out of the mansion.

“Welcome home, little brother!" There's sarcasm in Kevin's voice.

Jace smirks. “You are such a fool Kevin. You don't need to rejoice so long because your plans have failed already. Stop trying so hard to bring me down because you will always fail."

The smile on Kevin's face quickly faded and was replaced with anger. Jacs smirked the more, ignored him and walked away; striding upstairs to his room.

He opened the door to his room and walked in. He met his wife while reading her book. She has earphones in both her ears. She seems to be reading and listening to music at the same time. She didn't even notice Jace's presence.

Jace couldn't believe that all the anger he was feeling had been washed away just by seeing the face of his little wife. His raging heart was somehow calmed. The most adorable thing is that she's engrossed in the music she's listening to and also her book thereby not noticing his presence. He walked to the bathroom and took his bath. Putting on a black pants, he decided to let her know of his presence in the room. It seems that she will never know that he's back if he doesn't tell her himself. He sat down at the couch which stood in front of her with the round table demarcating the two couches.

She was able to notice his presence only when he touched her. She flinched a bit and looked up, removing the earphones from her ears in the process, her cheeks slightly turned pink as her eyes fell on his bare chest.

“You… you are back?" she mumbled. She's surprised to suddenly see him in the room, when did he come back?

“I came back like ten to fifteen minutes ago," Jace replied and then a smile crept his lips seeing the expression on her face. Like she couldn't believe that he came back ten minutes ago without her noticing his presence.

“What music are you listening to?" He asked. So funny, something in him wished that she's listening to his music. He wonders if she has listened to his music. If she does, did she like it? He knew that lots of people liked his songs but it would definitely make a difference if his wife didn't like his songs.

To his disappointment, she mentioned the name of another song. Has she listened to his song and didn't love it and then decides not to listen to it again.

He carefully masked the slight hurt in his eyes as he gave her the pink doll. “This should belong to you."

She happily collected the doll from him. Seeing how happy she is with the doll, it looks like it was given to her by someone special. But then his heart aches in a sudden jealousy, who's that special person in her life.

“Who gave you the doll?" He couldn't help but ask.

“It was given to me by my friend Darren," she quickly replied. Now, he regrets asking her that question, the jealousy in him burned even more.

Darren? A guy. If he had known this doll was given to her by a guy, he would have destroyed it rather than giving it back to her. The special person who gave her the doll is a guy…. He couldn't hide his jealousy.

He stared at the clueless girl who couldn't maintain eye contact with him. She doesn't know how jealous her sincere answer made him.

It looks like today didn't want to end well for him. It started bad and ended bad.