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How could she possibly help Damian now!
Lounge.
Damian flipped through the recent financial reports.
In just one week, the Barrette Group’s stock had plummeted, and the company’s market value had evaporated by 3.2 billion dollars.
No wonder the shareholders were getting restless!
Damian tossed the report back onto the table.
Lindsay stood to the side, unable to come up with any constructive suggestions.
From the company’s perspective, the board’s proposal was currently the best and lowest-cost solution, but also the hardest to implement.
At this point, getting Claudine to cooperate with Damian and put on a public display of affection was harder than reaching the sky.
Besides…
Lindsay glanced at the tightly closed door of the hospital room.
As a woman herself, if Damian tried to coerce or entice Claudine into cooperating, even she would feel sorry for Claudine!
After signing all the documents, Damian had already made up his mind.
“Notify the board that there will be a meeting next Monday. By then, I will give the group an explanation.”
Lindsay was a little shocked.
Although she had long known Damian’s outstanding business management skills, in the face of this PR crisis, aside from the board’s proposal, she really couldn’t think of any other solution Damian might have.
“Mr. Barrette, are you planning to have Mrs. Barrette and you…”
“Shouldn’t we ask Mrs. Barrette’s opinion first about this?”
Damian picked up the cigarette on the table and walked toward the door.
“Do as I say. I’ll handle the rest.”
With that, Damian had already left the hospital room.
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Inside the room, Claudine heard their conversation loud and clear.
She clenched her hands so tightly that the bedding in her grasp was wrinkled into a ball.
Lying on the hospital bed, she stared at the pale ceiling: Damian, this time, what are you going to use to threaten me?
I no longer love you; all I have left for you is hatred. What else can you use to threaten me?
After Lindsay left, the hospital room was filled with suffocating silence.
Claudine stared blankly out the window.
She couldn’t understand how simply falling in love with a man had left her so wounded.
She used to think her mother was pitiful, kept in the dark by her father for so many years, believing he loved and re- spected her, believing her marriage was happy and her family perfect.
But now, Claudine felt she wasn’t even as clear-headed as her mother!
Her mother loved her father, at least because he had pretended for decades, never revealing his true self in front of her.
At least, in her mother’s eyes, her father was loyal to her.
But what about her?
Five years of marriage, and she had never felt a trace of love. She had known for a long time that Damian didn’t love
her.
Yet she still deceived herself, thinking that her sincerity would one day make Damian see her differently.
But in the end, this marriage resulted in one dead and one wounded…
At that moment, the hospital room door opened, and Damian appeared before Claudine.
“Let’s talk!”
Damian was a successful businessman.
No matter the circumstances, he always managed to maximize his own interests.
But this time, the reason he hesitated for so long was because he wanted to find a win-win solution.
He had promised to make it up to Claudine, and naturally, he couldn’t go back on his word.
Damian came to the bedside and sat down.
Claudine had already guessed what Damian wanted to say.
The only reason she allowed him to sit here now was to see just how shameless this man could be, and what kind of scheme he had come up with to make her agree to cooperate with him and solve the Barrette Group’s current predica-
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Damian looked at the woman in front of him.
Once again, she was looking at him with eyes full of disgust.
Damian raised his hand, wanting to tuck the stray strands of hair on her face behind her car.
But as soon as his hand reached out, Claudine avoided him with a look of utter revulsion.
Damian’s hand hung awkwardly in midair.
His fingers curled into an empty fist and dropped down.
He finally spoke.
Without any unnecessary words, he got straight to the point.
“Just now, you must have heard what we were talking about outside.
The last incident caused too much of a stir and had a very negative impact on the company. Right now, the best solu-
tion is for us to come forward and explain to the media that it was all just a misunderstanding.”
Claudine could hardly believe how Damian could say such things with a straight face.
Even though she had long known that this man had never loved her.
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