Lynette ♡

Chapter 16

[General POV]

Julius Haynes entered his hotel room and tossed a file on the bed with a sigh.

The meeting with a potential business partner had not gone the way he had hoped. For reasons unknown, the business partner from Korea didn't seem at all thrilled with his proposal and showed little to no interest in any of the presentations his company had prepared. Mr. Park was anything but enthusiastic about investing in the new branch of Motion Industries he was planning to build in Seoul.

To be honest, it bugged him.

Julius Haynes was always confident in his abilities and in his business's performance. Over the years, he has shown what he could achieve and no project of his has ever failed. However, recently, things haven't been great within the company.

Investors have unexpectedly pulled out their investments in various projects, top managers and company directors have decided to quit, and HR has been bombarded with complaints regarding pay grades and wages. Julius didn't know what was wrong. He always made sure that he paid his workers with what they deserved and he always ensured that his company never missed a payment of wages. He didn't know why his company directors suddenly left nor why investors were pulling out.

There was something wrong.

There was something going on in the company that he was not privy to.

'There is someone behind this.'

Julius was almost ninety percent certain. Bad things like this didn't just happen out of nowhere unless there was a crisis in the market but as far as he could tell, the market was stable and had little to no fluctuations as of recently. The company's reputation was still very much intact and there was nothing wrong with the financial reports. It had to be something else.

Someone was pulling the strings and Julius needed to find out who.

'Could it be Janeson?'

His first suspect was his old business rival; Nicholas Janeson. That guy had always had it out for him ever since their university days. Janeson was obsessed with beating him in anything and everything and couldn't stand it whenever Julius came first. It was, however, a one-sided childish rivalry that Julius honestly didn't care about.

'No. It couldn't be him. Nicholas is competitive, yes, but he is not someone that does things from behind.'

Janeson was many things but if there was one thing to note about him, it was that he was always upfront and straightforward. He didn't hide his moves and stayed behind the scenes to manipulate everything. That wasn't the kind of person he was.

His second suspect was Ludos Francois.

Julius sat on the bed and loosened his tie, glaring at thin air. Just the thought of that bastard's name made him want to punch something in anger.

Ludos Francois, the CEO of PK Enterprises. He was a snake that loved pulling underhanded moves to get what he wanted. Even going as far as to kill people to hide his tracks. He was good at that and he enjoyed it.

He was the person that Julius hated most in this world.

He was the man that slept with his ex-wife.

In other words, Ludos was the father of Lynette - the girl who was currently living in his manor.

In fact, Julius had long suspected that Ludos was up to something. A man who stole his wife and impregnated her and bragged about it was nothing if not despicable. Julius had longed to get revenge on that bastard ever since it was confirmed that his wife had an affair with him. That was the real reason he decided to take Lynette in.