Husband you've abandoned me Fine I'll focus on raising my son novel Chapter 256

Chapter 256: The culprit

JASMINE’S POV

As Keith ’slept’ on the couch, I went through the documents he had put out. At his desk.

I decided to check the most recent project Keith said he had noticed something was suspicious. With the gathered invoices and reports. I confirmed and the documents added up several invoices, receipts.

It was early in the afternoon when Keith woke up. He sat up on the sofa and looked at me seated at his desk. After a moment, he then got up from his seat and came towards me.

"Found anything so far?" He asked as he came behind me by the desk. His arm casually draped around me and onto the arm of the chair on the other side.

"I’ve been able to confirm the miscellaneous expenses of this project," I said as I showed him the calculations I had done.

"The most recent project with a 16 million budget was done a month ago. There is a total of 4.6 million missing," I informed him. "The project only cost 10.4 million in reality."

Keith checked my calculations, his face tense, as he read through them.

He then scoffed as he put the document down. "How long has this been going on?" He asked in shock he then turned away for a moment and went to the window/sliding doors of the office. They overlooked the estate gardens outside.

"Money has been stolen from the company for at least five years now. I can’t believe this," he said, sounding ashamed. " I felt something was wrong, but never knew...Now my company is being threatened to get taken away."

We then took a break and had lunch. Afterwards, we continued to go through the other recent documents Keith had been suspicious of.

By the end of the day, we had finished going through 2 more financial reports of other projects Keith had noticed and felt something wasn’t quite right. We thoroughly dissected and checked all the reports now that we knew to check all expenses in the miscellaneous sections. We confirmed that more money was, in fact, missing.

Keith and I went on another break for dinner and to wash up before meeting again in his office to finish going through the rest of the financial documents. I had just finished showering in the bathroom of my bedroom. Upon coming out, with my bathrobe wrapped around my body, I went to my ned and lay on it.

I saw my phone on my bedside table and took it.

I was scrolling through it, going through different apps. I had discovered that Louis’ number was blocked the day before. I also saw several missed calls from him when I was unconscious and shortly after I had woken up.

So far, I hadn’t tried to call or communicate with Louis. I’m sure Keith had noticed that, and hopefully, that gave me ’brownie points’ to some extent.

I turned to social media apps. When I opened Stargram. Instantly, many stories of the people I follow appeared on my for you page. There was no one I could talk to about my situation who could help me, I thought to myself as I casually scrolled through the stories. Among the people I follow I then saw Megan and Mike’s story. I followed both of them separately. Their stories were very similar to each other.

It showed them at the beach spending time together as a couple. In one picture, it showed them kissing, in another, they were holding hands having drinks, and in anothe,r they were playing in the water.

I smiled, happy for them. They were finally together after a while of not sharing their feelings.

I liked their photos and put heart emojis on them. I’m sure Keith wouldn’t have a problem with me liking pictures. I then continued to scroll as I contemplated.

I knew my brother or family wouldn’t help me either so communicating with them would be a waste of time. I bit my lower lip. There was no one I could contact.

I then shook my head, dismissing my thoughts. I had work to do; I could worry about this later. Keith and I are so close to finding the culprit now.

I put away my phone and got dressed. I then left my room and returned to Keith’s office to continue going through the documents. He was already back in his office at the seating area, going through the documents.

We worked through the night together and finished off the remaining 2 documents Keith had been suspicious of. After a few hours, we confirmed that more funds had in fact been stolen.

A total of just over 20 million dollars had been taken from the calculations we had done. Keith and I were shocked. And not to mention if this had been going on for at least five years, how much money had actually been stolen?

Certainly more than 50 million if this has been going on for that long.

To think that if Louis and I hadn’t gone to Kensington, we wouldn’t have discovered all this. I was in complete shock.

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