Worship The Ground You Walk On novel Chapter 87

After the K Group and the Crawford Group launched CCU Project in the press conference, Ben received a call immediately.

It was from Hanna.

From her shaky voice, he could tell that she was really in a panic.

“Ben, I know it’s not a good time to call you, but… I really don’t know whom else I can turn to now. I’m sorry!”

She kept apologizing on the phone. She was pretty desperate now.

As Simon proposed, there would be a celebration party tonight, and of course, Ben would attend the party as the head of the Crawford Group.

And now he was waiting for the party and in a good mood, so he just said calmly, “What’s going on?”

“It is about my company. I don’t know what exactly is going on. The men from the court and the police station are going to arrest the vice president of my company all of a sudden, but Robert has disappeared!”

She was agitated and couldn’t explain the whole thing clearly.

Ben felt the situation was likely to go badly.

“I will ask Nate to fish for information and update you later,” Ben said hurriedly.

Once he hung up the phone, he ordered Nate to gather information about the Lewis's.

Thanks to Nate’s expertise and the information network of the Crawford Group, he figured it out very soon.

According to the information, the Vice President Robert Lynn in the Lewis's misappropriated all the circulating funds in the account of the company and ran away after selling all his estates.

He fled to a country that didn’t have an extradition treaty and now enjoying an easy life.

But life didn’t go easy on Hanna. To help Claudia keep her old house, she had spent all the funds of the Lewis's in bidding for her house in the auction, which annoyed all their shareholders. She had put in a lot of effort to calm them down but still had incurred huge debts.

The misappropriation was not the only bad news for her. Robert also framed her with all his crimes like illegal fundraising and fraud. If she was convicted, she would have to spend a long time in jail.

Her life almost got ruined only in a few days.

Hearing Nate’s report, Ben couldn't stay calm anymore. He called Hanna back and hung up after speaking only several words to her, but that made Hanna feel relieved immediately.

He said, “Wait for me. I will be back soon.”

Besides, he also commanded Nate to assign the task of defending Hanna to the lawyers of the Crawford Group.

Before he left, he had got everything arranged appropriately.

Prudent and resolute.

That was what he was.

When he was talking to Simon after the press conference, Christine noticed that he looked a little bit worried. So she sneaked up on him and heard the conversation between him and Nate, knowing everything about what happened to Hanna.

So she walked fast and stopped Ben without letting Simon know.

“What makes Mr. Crawford so worried? Is there something wrong with a fair lady you know in your country?”

Her words and sardonic attitude ignited his anger.

However, he was taught not to reveal his feelings easily. So he was just looked at her grimly and said, “The Crawford Group and the K Group do have conducted cooperation in the project, but it doesn’t mean that I have to report to the K Group about everything I do, right?”

“Of course not! But I do really care about Mrs. Crawford, so I want to ask you a question if you don’t mind. What will happen to her, who is seriously ill, if you just go back to your country right now and leave her behind?” she asked him directly.

He suddenly looked gloomy and unpleasant after she mentioned Claudia.

After a few seconds of silence, Christine stopped waiting for his reply and said, “I guess Mr. Crawford has never put Mrs. Crawford into consideration, right?”

She had already read his mind.

To know one’s thoughts and secrets by observing his subtle expression was Christine’s trick.

Meanwhile, Christine didn’t intend to be euphemistic at all, “I also notice that it’s quite common to have a spousal relationship like Mr. and Mrs. Crawford in this circle. So maybe we can talk about it frankly.”