A loud gasp erupted in the entire board room, as Adrian dropped the announcement of his marriage, making it astoundingly clear that he was married to the one woman, who was the key to his permanent ascension to the seat of CEO.
To most of the board members, who had previously turned against him, it had turned out to be an hour of grave concern.
They only worried about their future, when Adrian was guaranteed to take over as the CEO and they only wondered what he would do against them.
But for Jake and his son, it was a moment when the time had entirely stopped.
They felt the feet underneath their ground completely vanish and their souls afloat out of their bodies, as the one last straw on which they were clinging on to was the wishful thinking, that Adrian may have just brought Diana
