Inside the study…
"It was a wild-life photographer who blackmailed Angus, and he was shot dead last night at the dump yard," Francis sullenly reported. "What surprising is that his dead body was found in the sea-high area where our project is going on. The workers are all panicked and refuse to work. The cops seized the entire place. I somehow managed to suppress the news from spreading."
He exhaled exaggeratedly, leaning back in his chair. "Imagine if word got out. The stock price would have plummeted abruptly. I am still wondering how Sean and Angus could do anything to harm the image of the company in the name of rivalry with you."
Declan was dead silent. He didn't even bat his eyelashes. Only his eyebrows twisted slightly, while his grasp on the paperweight tightened.
