The Formidable Heir

DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THEM?!

"Yvonne? Yvonne?" Lucian calls and gently taps on the desk to get her attention.

Yvonne's cheeks burn and she flushes in embarrassment seeing she has just been caught ogling. She quickly averts her gaze and lowers it to the desk before slowly sitting.

Lucian chuckles lightly at her flushed cheeks and sips his coffee. "I didn't catch you ogling. It didn't happen. Now answer my question."

Of course, he did. He had just said that to make her feel better.

Yvonne, however, knows he just lied. But since he can go that far to make her feel better, she quickly composes herself and sighs as she says, "Before Mr. Chad Kennedy purchased this company, we were on the verge of closure."

"Why?" He furrows his brow.

"I can't exactly say Mr. Wood," she sighs exasperatedly. "Things just kept deteriorating and we kept losing funds.

"We had to depend on loans. But at a point, all the banks refused to offer us loans until we pay up the money we owed them.

"I didn't know what to do. I had tried so many ti