Mr. CEO Your Wife Has Wanted a Divorce for a Long Time (by Zora Pradeep) novel Chapter 583

Chapter 583

After the New Year, Maggie was back at Cole like nothing had changed.

A couple days later, she attended a government meeting on Cole’s behalf.

She arrived at the venue and was just about to take her seat when she spotted Julia.

ulia saw her too, but quickly looked away.

Her eyes swept around the conference hall, though

–

no Franklin anywhere.

he’d half–convinced herself he wasn’t coming when, right as the meeting was about to kick off, Franklin finally walked in.

ulia’s shoulders dropped with relief.

hen she watched him take the seat next to Maggie, and the small smile she’d just managed faded right back off her face, leaving something dim and hollow in

¡er eyes.

Over at their table, Franklin settled in and said to Maggie, “Morning.”

Maggie: “…Morning.”

nd that was that. She turned away and didn’t spare him another glance.

he meeting got underway. Franklin didn’t say anything else.

lalfway through, during the break, Julia made her way over to him. “Franklin.”

le looked up and gave her a nod.

Got a few minutes after this wraps up?” she asked, keeping her voice light. “I wanted to talk to you about something.”

I’ve got a dinner thing right after.”

It won’t take long. Just a few minutes.”

ranklin nodded. “Sure.”

ilia smiled.

Maggie had just stepped out to the restroom and came back to find Franklin and Julia mid conversation.

ler expression didn’t flicker. She was heading back to her seat when a few of the business reps at the meeting spotted her and pulled her into conversation.

By the time she’d finished the small talk and sat back down, the meeting had already resumed.

When it wrapped up, Maggie worked the room for a bit, then headed out.

On her way out, she caught a glimpse of Julia walking toward Franklin again.

ranklin broke away from the crowd. “What’s up?”

‘It’s about Wilson Tech and my dad’s company,” Julia said.

Over the New Year break, she’d reached out to Franklin multiple times trying to get together. Ited barely responded to any of it

Which meant that from the holidays until now, they hadn’t seen each other once.

Both Wilson Tech and Brown Tech had resumed normal operations after the New Year, but the cash burn was brutal, and every major project was still dead in

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he water with no breakthroughs in sight.

he walked him through the situation at both companies.

ranklin listened. Then, after a beat, he said, “It sounds like you’re both hitting a wall on the technical side. If you need it, I can point you toward some solid

alent.”

ilia’s smile faltered. She was about to say something when Franklin’s assistant Jake appeared at his elbow. “Mr. Wilson, we should get going.”

ranklin nodded, then looked back at Julia. “I’ve got to run. We can pick this up another time.”

..Okay.”

he stood there watching him leave long after he’d gone.

e knew perfectly well that Wilson Tech and Brown Group were short on technical support.

ut even with the right people in place, what good was any of it without money? You couldn’t fund a project on talent alone.

oth companies were hemorrhaging cash right now. There was no way Franklin didn’t know that.

e knew. And he’d said absolutely nothing about it, just smoothly sidestepped to “let me recommend some people.”

hat was his way of saying he wasn’t going to help.

took Julia a long moment to pull herself together. She turned and left, heading straight back to Wilson Tech.

he’d barely walked through the door when Sophia rushed over. “Sis, did you see him? Did you see your husband?”

lia nodded.

phia and the others lit up, crowding around her. “So did you talk to him about the company? What did he say?”

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