Twins in Her Womb (Bianca and Luke Crawford novel) novel Chapter 625

In the private room of a restaurant.

The guests guzzled bottles upon bottles of alcohol. They had to hide their true feelings and maintain smiles on their faces even though the bitter taste lingered in their mouths.

Luke was drinking with Mr. Norman and his men. He had drunk a lot of alcohol.

He had a high tolerance for alcohol. Though he managed to decline most of the offers to drink, there were too many people toasting him.

Everyone at the table was an influential politician or government official. Luke dared not decline too many of their toasts.

He felt a little tipsy, though his mind was still sound. "There's something that I'd like to ask, Mr. Norman. T Corporation has always obeyed the law, and we only start a project only after we obtain the requisite permits. We have checked every document, permit, and schedule at least three times, and we have not found any problems. I would like to know if the company has done something wrong to deserve the stop-work order."

He poured a glass of alcohol for Jack. "Please let me know if there's something I can work on."

The handsome man seemed drunk, but his gaze remained stubbornly sharp, as though he was determined to find out the truth.

Jack did not drink that glass of alcohol, neither did he answer Luke's question. Instead, he gazed profoundly at Luke. "Let's not talk about business today, Luke. How about we chat about our personal lives?"

Luke knew very well that Mr. Norman was not one to engage in small talk. Neither was he.

For people like them, time was money.

However, Luke considered Mr. Norman's status and agreed to his suggestion.

He lifted his glass and clinked it with Mr. Norman's class. "Alright, let's not talk about business today. Bottoms up, Mr. Norman."

Half an hour later.

Without talking about business, Luke managed to find out the reason why Jack Norman had tried to trip up T Corporation.

Mr. and Mrs. Norman had found out that his mother had swapped their baby, and they were using this opportunity to threaten Allison to tell them the truth about the incident.

Luke knew that Mr. and Mrs. Norman were honest and considerate people who would not resort to threats. However, they had abandoned their principles just so that they could reunite with their birth daughter. It seemed that they were desperate.

However, he hesitated to tell them the truth.

Personally, he did not want to see Bianca reunite with the Norman family. On the other hand, he could see that the couple seemed to be obsessed with finding their birth daughter. He could also see that Mr. Norman's hair was turning white from worry, and he did not know if not telling them the truth was the right thing to do.

Now that he knew Mr. Norman's intentions, it would be a lot easier to deal with it.

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Allison went to T Corporation for an "investigation." What she found was exactly like what Jason had told her.

The company was in a financial crisis because of the stop-work order.

She became very nervous.

She did not want to see her son's company in financial trouble.

All those years of living luxuriously had made her a spendthrift. She did not want to return to a life of poverty.