Departure with a Belly (Alaric and Victoria) novel Chapter 239

Chapter 239
A faint glint flashed across Bane’s eyes as he asked, “Is that so?” He tried to hold
back his emotions and put on a smile. “Which discerning company president
discovered your potential?”
Victoria shot him a complicated look, making him even more uncomfortable.
“What happened?”
“It’s him. He’s the investor.”
Even a usually calm person like Bane had suddenly slammed on the brake and
stopped on the side of the road. The incident startled Victoria, who then turned to
look at him. Fortunately, the road was empty, or their sudden braking would cause a
car accident.
Once he stopped the car, he took a deep breath and quickly returned to his calm
state. “Is that so?”
She thought he looked a bit off and nodded. “Yes, but are you okay? Why don’t I take
the wheel from here?”
“It’s fine, Victoria.” Bane turned on the engine again and explained, “I overreacted a
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little just now. Did I scare you? I didn’t think he would do such a thing.”
“No, you didn’t, but just… don’t step on the brake like this again. We’re lucky there
were no cars behind us, or we might’ve gotten into a dangerous accident.”
“Okay. I was wrong. I’ll keep that in mind.” He readily admitted his mistake and
apologized.
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Victoria felt relieved as this was one good trait about Bane. He was not
self-centered and was willing to admit his mistakes, giving her leeway in everything.
If Alaric had been in this incident, he would have scoffed and retorted, “What’s the
matter? Think I’d get you into an accident? Don’t fret. Even if we had to die, I would
die before you.”
Though they had separated for five years, she could still easily remember his
expressions and tones in such situations. She shook her head to get those messy
thoughts out. Then, she quickly exited the car upon arrival at the company. “Thank
you for the ride. Be careful on your way to work.”
Following that, she turned around and left. She had not gone further than a few
steps when she heard someone opening and closing the car door. When she turned
around, she saw Bane approaching her. “Come on. I’ll walk you to your office.”
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She tried to reason with him, “But-”
“Is there something wrong with that? I’ve never stepped foot in your company since
you started it. Am I unwelcomed to get a tour?”
“Of course not.” She tugged her lips. “Let’s go.”
The two entered the elevator together.
“What were you saying before you received the phone call?” When Bane’s voice
sounded inside the quiet elevator, Victoria felt her nerves tense.
Yeah… What was I going to say? “I forgot. Why don’t we discuss this later?”
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Just as the last words escaped her lips, the elevator doors opened. Since her focus.
lay on the investment, she did not give it much thought and exited the elevator after
the doors opened.
He stood inside the elevator as a shadow flashed across his spectacled eyes. If his
memory served him right, her words were, “If you’re willing…”
What could be next? Perhaps it might be something he wanted to hear but was
interrupted by the phone call.
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It was not until the elevator doors were about to close that he slowly emerged.
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After opening the door to her office, Victoria saw a spectacled man sitting before
Henry. The suit-clad man had a neatly tied-up tie and a briefcase beside him. He was
holding a stack of documents while discussing something with Henry.
When they heard movement from the door, they looked in that direction in unison,
after which Henry rose to his feet and nodded at her. “Miss Selwyn, this is Mr.
Levane, the representative from Cadogan Group.”
In the meantime, Terrance shot to his feet when he saw Victoria’s face and stared at
her in bewilderment. Before coming here, he was confused about why Alaric would
make such a strange investment out of nowhere, so much so that he even called
Peter to ask him about this. However, Peter told him not to ask questions and do
whatever he was told because he would soon find out the answers to his questions.
Peter was right. The answer had appeared.
All of Terrance’s doubts were instantly solved upon seeing Victoria’s face. I was
wondering why Mr. Cadogan would suddenly invest in a small company. Turns out
the answer is here.
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Now that they had an investor, Henry was clearly in a better mood as he came
forward to greet Victoria. “Miss Selwyn, I-”
Just as he was about to speak, he saw a handsome man with gold-rimmed glasses
and a gentle temperament entering the door. Then, the words he was about to say
immediately vanished.
The gentle-looking man had a strong aura. Once inside, he swept his gaze across
the entire room before looking at Henry and fixing his inquisitive and probing gaze
on Terrance.
Having worked at the management level for many years, Henry immediately noticed
Bane had a superior’s temperament. Adding on to the fact that he came in after
Victoria, he instantly guessed the two had some sort of relationship, so he sensibly
decided to shut up.
“Hello.” Victoria approached Terrance to shake his hand.
He nervously and stiffly reached out to shake her hand while nodding like a
woodpecker, muttering, “H-Hello.”
After getting a closer look, he was astonished by how beautiful Victoria was and
now knew why Peter was exaggerating with his words when describing Alaric’s
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ex-wife. Back then, he was even skeptical about Peter’s choice of words but threw
his skepticism out the window after looking at a photo of her.
Now that he saw her in the flesh, he thought the photo only showed ten percent of
her actual beauty. She’s so beautiful, he thought while apprehensively withdrawing
his hand.
She smiled and asked, “Excuse me, but where is Mr. Cadogan?”
“M-Mr. Cadogan? He’s not here today.”
That was something Terrance found strange as well. Why did Alaric ask him to
come here instead of visiting himself? He was helping her, yet he did not want to
appear before her.
After thinking about it, she decided to use a more straightforward approach. “Where
is he now?” She would go and look for him.
“Y-You’re looking for Mr. Cadogan?” Once he asked that, he took out his phone and
stammered, “I-I’ll call him.”
Before he could make the call, she stopped him with her snowy-white hand. “There’s
no need to tell him. He knows who I am, so just tell me where he lives.”
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When she reached over with her hand, her fingers touched Terrance, causing him,
someone with zero love experience, to instantly blush red.
“S-Sure.” He then told her the address while stammering, his ears were blushing so
red that they were almost the same color as blood, His strange demeanor went
unnoticed by Victoria, who was wholly focused on the serious matter,
“Thank you.” She looked at the document before the two.
Henry blinked before staring at her and then at Bane, softly admitting. “It’s a
hard-to-come-by chance, so I’ve already agreed to it before you arrived.”
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