Husband you've abandoned me Fine I'll focus on raising my son novel Chapter 85

Chapter 85: The finishing touches

"I promised that what I’m working on won’t take long," I reassured Louis.

"What if Chairman Acland approaches you again?" he asked nervously.

"He no longer has a reason to continue coming to see me. He will focus on Diana. It’s Diana whom I’m more worried about," I told him.

My interaction with Keith had thrown me off a little but I wasn’t worried about him. I had Kyle and Harry to protect me in case anything happened.

He let out a sigh. "I’m not so sure about that," he said doubtfully.

I wondered why he was more nervous about Keith.

"At the very least promise me you won’t stay up late tonight again," he then requested me.

"I promise," I lied through my teeth.

Louis scoffed as he took another puff of his cigarette. He then moved away from the railing and drew closer to me.

My gaze was on his golden eyes that were locked onto me as well. He then stood right in front of me and lowered himself. His eye contact didn’t waiver as he did so. I was taken aback by his closeness wondering what he was about to do. I leaned further back on the table when he reached his arm out, and it went past me.

I looked back and saw he was simply putting the cigarette he was done smoking in the ashtray on the table. My body was blocking it. Why didn’t he just ask me to move then? I wondered.

"Liar," he then whispered in my ear as he came away from me, sending shivers down my spine and my breathing hitched.

He turned his head to look at me with a smirk on his face and then moved away from me.

"Good night, Jasmine," he said to me as he headed inside the apartment.

"Good night, Louis," I replied in a stunned tone,

That boy....I thought to myself as I watched him leave, shaking my head. How annoying. There were times I would look at him and recall the kind boy I used to know and then there were other times he was different.

Another interesting aspect of my investigation, was since I had taken more folders than I had initially intended I realized I had more documents from the prior years. In particular from before the Carringtons purchased the restaurant. Meaning I could compare the documents Gatwick had written with the ones from the previous reports.

It was from that I found out the difference in the budget the company had after the Carringtons’ purchased it. With the previous owner, each restaurant had a bughet of 100 thousand (USD) for monthly operations. Now it had a budget of 45 thousand. My jaw dropped to the floor. Less than half the budget!

This is what the head chef had been complaining about to the manager the other day. The difference in the budget was insane of course he would be angry.

I also noticed the difference in profits over the years. The extra folders I had taken were from 2014 and 2013. They showed a slow but steady decline in profits from 2013 to now in 2015. How sad I thought to myself.

As the hours passed and I continued to read through the documents I still didn’t find anything that stuck out to me. I just accepted that there was nothing odd I would find and would just present what I had complied so far to Louis.

I then began to reorganize the different documents I had sprawled all over my bed.

When I got to the accounting papers and I was about to start organizing them, it suddenly hit me. My eyes narrowed as I looked again at the accounting papers sprawled on my bed. I had organized the them according to dates and years so I could easily compare them. I looked at a paper on the budgeting and expenses from 2013 and then took one from 2015 and carefully studied it. Then I took another one from each respective year and compared them. Then again.

Something was a little strange about the numbers.