Chapter 525

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 525

“What’s wrong, Stuart?” asked Ava, looking visibly worried.

“It’s ruined!” said Stuart, his face pale as a sheet. He then ran down the stairs immediately and Ava followed close behind. She waited for him to be done with his phone call before slowly approaching him.

“Stuart…? What’s wrong? Please don’t scare me!” asked Ava, repeating her question. She was getting increasingly worried with every passing second.

Stuart wasn’t a man who only had his looks. He had properties within Mayberry and his parents were fairly successful people as well. Essentially, he had the whole package. He just seemed to naturally outshine all of Ava’s other colleagues in the company, which was one of the reasons why she liked him so much in the first place.

Ava had always dreamed of marrying Stuart in Mayberry one day. If she was lucky, she’d love to be able to work there as well. Due to her father being the principal of her high school, she had been both prideful and cynical from a young age. All her crushes she had had up to this point were on men who had powerful backgrounds and were very rich.

“This is bad, Ava. Remember that company that we invested in with Mr. Wilson? Something’s gone wrong!” said Stuart in a panicked voice.

Ava immediately knew what he was talking about. The investment in that company had been ordered by one of the directors. Stuart, as well as Mr. Wilson, were involved in the process. Since the company wanted to earn more through investing, it was natural for everyone in the company to want more of that money too. Money was money, after all.

Thus, they decided to invest in a company as well. They would operate on their own and report back to the main branch so that they’d provide funds for investment purposes. This particular company had already been given funds of over eighty million dollars, but only those involved knew about the company.

Everything seemed to be sailing so smoothly. The main branch had already approved of their funding requests, and they thought that with all the investments going around, they would never be found out.

Besides, the company had provided double insurances since they were using the name of another local business. Nothing should’ve gone wrong.

“I have no idea what the higher-ups were smoking, but they’ve just decided to check in on our company! What more, they seemed to know what they were checking for! Since they weren’t able to balance the financial statements, they had suspected that someone was committing fraud!”

Stuart was having a panic attack. He knew that this was it.

“It’s weird though! The business isn’t that big and we didn’t provide that much funding either! We even made sure to use another business’ name too! There’s no way they could have detected this that easily!”

“I have no idea how either but that’s the least of my problems! The higher-ups are now investigating both the director and Mr. Wilson. I’m most likely going to go down with them too! Oh god, what should I do? If the company decides to report us, we’ll be sentenced to jail!”

Seeing how panicked he was, Ava began panicking herself. However, she suddenly had an idea.

Patting herself on the head, she explained, “Wait, there may be a solution to this! Why don’t you use a scapegoat? They can take the full blame for you then all your problems should be solved, right?”

“Who though? This is serious business!”

Ava thought for a while before snapping her fingers. “I think I have a plan!”

While all this was happening, Gerald was calmly filing documents for the company.

Fay simply smiled when she saw him working. “You’re so hardworking Gerald! You just keep on going, company after company!”

Gerald simply smiled back before replying, “Well, I have to make sure that everything’s been checked.

Besides, I quite enjoy doing this and I’ve learned a lot too!”

The main reason the company was being investigated on was because Ava had been boasting so much about Stuart’s achievements. When Gerald found out that Nathaniel and Stuart were very close, he immediately checked on the projects that they had proposed.

After some investigating, he was able to detect multiple errors in their documents. One of the companies that Stuart had proposed was even under the name of Waylon’s father’s business.

It wasn’t really that big of a deal at first, but how would a fairly successful company not branch out?