The Woman From Hell

Back at the company, I wondered if I should tell Theo about having met Keith and Nibel. I had been a little absent-minded while we ate lunch because of that.Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

Theo reached his hand out and shook it in front of me, the corners of his mouth curving upward slightly. "What are you thinking?"

I put down the chopsticks. I figured I should tell him.

Theo needed to know Keith's position at least.

I looked at Theo. Truthfully, I still could not bear it. It felt like I was pouring salt on Theo's injured heart.

As if seeing how conflicted I was, Theo covered the back of my hand. "Didn't we say we wouldn't have secrets between us?"

"I just met Keith and Nibel," I whispered, looking up carefully to observe Theo's reaction.

I noticed the corner of his mouth twitch before he broke into a smile. Theo turned his gaze to me. "You must not have controlled yourself and gone up to scold him, huh?"

Although Theo was right, he looked as if it was obvious that I was violent.

I pursed my lips and lowered my gaze slightly. "I went up to him to question him, but I wasn't very angry."

Theo burst into laughter again when he heard this and looked at me with a smile. "I'm honored to have a wife who stands up for me."

"Keith seemed uncomfortable to me. He also admitted he leaked the information to Wolfe Group. I really don't know what benefits Nibel offered him that he was able to convert Keith who had been dead set on following you."

The more I thought about it, the angrier I felt. I wanted to find out what conspiracy Nibel was hiding. "He went to great lengths to poach Keith from you. It's probably not just his talent he wants, no?"

Theo's eyebrows furrowed. "You're right. "

Hearing Theo agree with me, a sense of unease rose in my heart. "Could Keith still take Grant Corporation's resources with him?"

"It's not impossible."

I could not sit still. "I'll go look through the project Keith had been working on before."

Theo stopped me the moment I stood up. He patted my hand to comfort me. "Don't be so agitated. It'll be okay."

Theo was still as calm as ever. I looked at his calm and relaxed expression yet failed to calm myself down. "The situation is already desperate. How are you still so calm?"

"Remember what we said about Nibel's ambition to gain a foothold in the country. There's still another point."

My brows furrowed when I heard that. "What is it?"

"He wants to beat me," Theo straightened up and said seriously.

I thought about how Nibel had asked me to cooperate with him to defeat Theo at the beginning and my head went off like a bomb. "So, he has also been holding onto that idea, unchanging. Was it also part of his plan to partner up with Grant Corporation?"

"Yes. The partnership was to make us let our guard down. He also used that opportunity to get close to Keith to gain his trust before taking him away from me. Nibel knows it'll be a heavy blow to me to lose Keith."

"It's a painful blow, Due to the change in personnel in my project with Keith, our partners would more or less lose some of their trust. Their attitude toward me is also very perfunctory. It'll be easy for Keith if he wants to take back this project."

Theo suddenly smiled. "He has already started."

Immediately after that, my phone rang. I looked down at the caller ID. "It's President Zus from Hecto Group. It's one of Keith's projects." "Answer it."

I slid a finger across the screen and answered the call, "Hello, President Zus. Is there something you need?"

My expression changed drastically as I listened to his voice. "What? You want to terminate the contract?"