Chapter 173: It Was Better When Amelia Was Here
But what she has learned now is less than one-thousandth of what Jasper knew.
Jasper could stay incredibly calm at any time.
As if everything was under control.
No matter how many times he faced desperate situations, he could always find unexpected ways to reach the best solution.
As long as he was there, no one dared to bully her.
No one dared, because she was Jasper's only daughter.
But still, he died.
He jumped from a tall building and died right in front of her.
His brain matter and blood splattered everywhere, his eyes wide open in death.
That scene made her wake up startled in countless midnights.
Amelia clenched her right hand.
She must take back what belonged to the Martinez family and find out the truth about Jasper's death.
She must.
……
The Brown Group's stock price slowly climbed back up. Although there was still a loss in the end, it dropped much less than before.
Later, the Brown Group took a series of measures, such as public announcements and so on, which gradually stabilized the stock price. And until now, not a single major partner has announced cutting ties with the Brown Group, so everyone believed it should slowly recover afterward.
Time flew by quickly, and soon it was the midday trading break.
Financial bloggers also came out with their analysis—
From what we can see now, the Brown Group's products, quality, and partners all seem fine. Listed companies have their own ways of handling things. I'm just curious how they'll deal with Isabella's situation.
I'd really like to contact William's ex-wife Amelia. After all, Amelia worked at the Brown Group for seven years, and there was a stock price fluctuation incident back then. I'm very curious about how they handled it at the time.
……
Other netizens were focused on other content from Isabella's livestream.
"Isabella said they never had sex, is that true or false?"
"Who knows?"
"If what Isabella said is true, and they really weren't together, then she doesn't really count as a homewrecker, just someone who made an extremely unreasonable demand."
"What about William then? He said he has feelings for Isabella, so what kind of feelings? Gratitude? Feelings of appreciation? Feelings can include many things, and William did divorce Amelia because of this, that's true, right?"
"Good point."
"I'm curious how all this will end."
……
On the other side, after William dealt with a series of matters, Rhys asked him what he wanted for lunch.
But William had no appetite. He just said he wanted to go downstairs for a walk and told Rhys to prepare something simple.
Rhys wanted to say something but ended up keeping quiet.
Rhys was very angry today.
He had pulled an all-nighter last night helping deal with company matters, and then Isabella showed up out of nowhere today... which really pissed him off.
William said to prepare something simple, so he'd order what he liked and what was expensive, two portions—one for William and one for himself. If William had no appetite and didn't eat, he could have both!
William had already taken the elevator downstairs.
This was his private elevator. He hesitated for a moment, then pressed a certain floor.
The elevator arrived quickly.
William silently walked out.
This floor was very noisy now, with countless people on the phone, coming and going.
Some people greeted him when they saw him, but more people were busy with their heads down handling matters.
Phone calls rang everywhere, one after another.
This floor housed the company's market value management related departments. Going around to the other side was the financial department established by the Martinez family.
Everyone there was also busy at the moment.
Looking at these people, Amelia's figure seemed to appear before his eyes once again.
In the past, she often appeared here, strategizing and planning.
Had she seen the news?
If she saw his moves, what would she think?
William couldn't help wondering.
But then he suddenly remembered that Amelia was more likely to have seen Isabella's livestream...
His head started hurting again.
She must be laughing at him—after she left, he couldn't even smoothly handle such a simple crisis.
He thought again of those days and nights when she was by his side.
On those nights when she woke startled from dreams, she would always curl up in his arms, and he would always pat her back and comfort her softly, their two hearts close together.
He missed her so much.
Missed her until his stomach hurt.
"William, what are you doing here? Aren't you going to eat lunch?" A voice came, pulling William back from his thoughts.
He composed himself and saw Felicity, who happened to be passing by.
"How's the situation now?" William deflected and asked about something else.
Felicity's expression wasn't good.
"The stock price is fine for now, it's just..." Felicity glanced at William, not finishing her sentence, but the meaning was obvious.
Wasn't it just that Isabella's moves were too amateurish?
Now her friends were all making fun of her.
"It was better when Amelia was here." Someone in the distance muttered, voicing what Felicity was thinking.
But she wouldn't admit it and just sent the person away.
When she came back, William was already gone.
After walking around, William felt even worse.
He returned to his office, looked at the food on his desk, but had no appetite. He just waved his hand: "Take it away."
Rhys smiled: "Yes, Mr. Brown."
On the other side.
Someone knocked on the door of the small office Amelia rented.
Amelia looked up and saw it was Dash.
"Dash." Amelia smiled and stood up.
Dash walked in and handed over a lunch box.
"I figured you'd be very busy today. I happened to be passing by, so I brought you something good to eat." Dash lifted the lunch box and opened it, taking out the food he brought box by box.
He placed them on the empty desk nearby.
Everything was still warm.
Amelia couldn't resist when she saw this.
"Dig in." Dash said.
"Then I won't be shy." Amelia said with a smile. She remembered that the Wilson family had hired a new chef with excellent cooking skills.
"Yes." Dash nodded with a smile. When Amelia invited him to eat together, he said, "I've already eaten, you go ahead."
Amelia first had a sip of soup.
"Yes, that's the taste!" She said seriously to Dash, "If your family's chef ever stops working for you, you must introduce them to me first."
Dash's eyes were full of her smile. He smiled and said: "Okay."
Watching Amelia eat happily, Dash continued: "In a little over a month, there's an academic conference in Veridian, and I'll be going."
Amelia stopped and looked at Dash, waiting for him to continue.
"Same as the information you got from Jeffrey, I asked friends I know in Veridian to look into Isabella's situation, but the medical institution she's at has very strong confidentiality and won't casually leak patient information."
Dash said: "When I go to attend the academic conference, I'll ask around more and do some on-site investigation to see if I can find out anything."
Amelia looked gratefully at Dash in front of her.
She had played with Mia since childhood, and Dash practically watched her grow up.
He had always taken good care of her. She didn't have a real older brother, so she had always treated him like one.
"Thank you, Dash." Amelia said sincerely.
"No need to thank me." Dash said, patting Amelia's head.