CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

Chapter 46

Silas noticed that Natalie was struggling with all the belongings in her hands, especially with her leg injury. It looked as though she was about to fall anytime. While he remained quiet about her demeanor, he didn’t really want to see her fall. Hence, he extended his hand and offered to help. “Let me help you with the laptop.”

“Thank you, Mr. Campbell.” Natalie didn’t find anything wrong with his behavior and handed over her laptop to him gratefully.

There were important documents relating to her drafts on that laptop. She wouldn’t have to worry about dropping and damaging the laptop if someone helped her with it.

They arrived at the meeting room shortly after.

Following Silas’ instructions, she sat down at a seat near the door.

Despite entering in a low-profile and quiet manner, she still managed to attract everyone’s attention.

Jasmine was the first to spot her. The woman’s gaze swept past her briefcase and laptop. For a split second, the corners of her lips curled into a slight smirk.

“Mr. Shane.” Natalie looked at the man who was seated at the head of the table.

“Are you ready?” He asked as his gaze moved toward her.

She nodded in response.

“Let’s begin then.” Shane interlocked his fingers and placed them on the table, ready to listen to the presentation.

Natalie took a deep breath, opened up her briefcase, and pulled out a blue file from it.

However, her body froze when she opened up the file. “What is this!”

“What’s wrong?” Seeing the color drain from Natalie’s face, Shane narrowed his eyes and wondered what happened.

Natalie clenched her fists and uttered, “My drafts are missing!”

“Missing?” Shane raised his brows in suspicion. Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

Natalie nodded and showed him the contents of the file. “Look! It’s all blank paper! My draft has been stolen!”

“Stolen?” Jasmine pursed her lips and mocked. “Ms. Natalie, please don’t come up with excuses. I bet you didn’t even complete your drafts, did you? Who would steal them for no reason?”

“I wouldn’t be too sure about that!” Natalie turned her head and stared at Jasmine.

The latter twitched slightly and slammed her fists on the table. “What do you mean by that? And why are you looking at me? Do you think I was the one who stole your drafts?”

“I didn’t say anything yet. Ms. Jasmine, did you need to react like this?” Natalie’s face darkened as she remarked coldly.

Jasmine gulped and instantly got furious. She was about to retaliate when Shane interrupted.

The man could no longer watch this debacle continue. He commanded, “Alright! Enough!”

“Enough?” Jasmine pointed a finger at Natalie in anger. “Shane, look at her! She’s delaying the meeting, and...”

“Do you not understand English?” Shane cut her off. His demeanor was as cold as ice.

Frightened by his reaction, Jasmine dared not speak anymore.

Shane shot her a meaningful look before turning to Natalie. “Do you have scanned copies?”

“I do. I always make a copy and save it on my laptop. But I suppose that is gone too.” As she spoke, Natalie powered up her laptop and clicked on the file. Indeed, it was empty.

While she was quite angry, there was no surprise that this would happen.

After all, if the physical copy were already stolen, there was no way the thief would miss out on the scanned copies.

Shane fell silent upon this. At that moment, the only sound in the meeting room was the rhythmic tapping of his index finger on the conference table. Nobody could tell how the man felt.

After a while, he suddenly stood up and announced, “Let’s end the meeting here today. We will talk about the drafts for Project Rebirth on another day.”

Once he said that, the attendees of the meeting did not stay any longer and dispersed.

Within a few moments, only the three of them were left in the meeting room.

Natalie picked up her laptop with one hand and her briefcase in the other. “Mr. Shane, I would like to head to the CCTV room.”

“I suppose you want to see who took your drafts?” Shane guessed her intentions almost immediately.

“Yes!” Natalie nodded and glanced at Jasmine at the same time. She wanted to see how her half-sister would react.

To her surprise, Jasmine was unusually calm. There was no panic to be seen on her face. It was to the extent that Natalie doubted her own suspicions.

Could it be someone else? Perhaps it wasn’t Jasmine.

Just as she was engrossed in her thoughts, Shane spoke up and approved her idea. “Go ahead then,” he said.

“Yes, Mr. Shane.” Natalie shoved her thoughts aside, thanked Shane, and stepped out of the meeting room.

After she left, Shane narrowed his eyes at Jasmine and asked, “Tell me, did you do it