Wife is a Lawyer novel Chapter 13

“Notify the Affairs Department that we are terminating our collaboration with the Hale Cobb Law Firm.”

Peter said in a deep voice.

“OK. I’ll get right on it.” Noah couldn’t make it out why his boss made such a sudden move, but he would never dare to disobey Peter's orders.

It's just ...

After a while, Noah said, “Sir, the owner of Hale Cobb Law Firm is your fiancée’s best friend. I fear that this may ... may damage their relationship.”

“Inform the Legal Affairs Department that we’ll pay double indemnity.” Peter announced firmly.

...

In the afternoon, at the Hale Cobb Law Firm.

Adriana looked at the people in front of her, confused. “Is there anything wrong, Mr. Holman?”

Noah and the lawyer next to him made a quick eye contact, then the lawyer took out a contract from his briefcase.

“Well, according to our assessment, your company doesn’t seem to meet our standards of cooperation, so the Board of Directors decided to terminate the collaboration. As for the penalty charge, we’ll pay you double compensation.”

He handed a notice of the breach of contract to Adriana.

Her brows were furrowed in deep concentration—she didn’t see that coming this quickly.

She took a look at the notice. The original settlement with Horizon Global was twenty million, but now they generously offered forty.

“As far as we know, your company was founded fairly recently in Waverly. Your yearly income is about ten million. After subtracting your expenses, we don’t think you’re able to earn forty million in three years.”

Noah said to her.

She had to say, forty thousand grand was indeed a big figure, and she couldn’t deny that she was beguiled at first.

But she had always stuck to her principles.

“Well well, very impressive, Mr. Holman. You seem to be quite acquainted with our financial transactions.”

Adriana handed him another contract, “This one, right?”

Noah took it and turned a few pages to check, then nodded, “Yes.”

“OK.”

Adriana nodded, took the contract back, and then dropped the two files into the shredder, which soon turned into scraps.

“Excuse me, Mr. Hale?” Noah stood up and exclaimed.

Adriana said calmly with her hands in her pockets, “Tell Peter, we intend to terminate the contract anyway. Now, we have the best of both worlds, really.”

When they left, Vivian closed the door and went up to Adriana, “Mr. Hale, what happened?”

Something wiped the smile off Adriana's face. She had her elbows on the desk, hands holding her forehead. “I think I need time alone to think right now, thank you.”

Vivian wanted to say something but the words just wouldn't come out of her mouth, so she turned around to leave the office and closed the door.

“Asshole!”

Adriana said through clenched teeth the moment the door was shut,

Lately Adriana had been trying to avoid Luis, but Peter's still accusing her of this. She had also thought about terminating the contract, but she couldn’t afford to pay the huge indemnity.

She didn’t expect that Horizon Global would bring it up first, even with double compensation. Were they trying to see if she's a greedy person?

If she accepted the money, that will only confirm all his prejudice towards her: she’s getting close to Luis in order to hit on Peter; she's seeking money from the Alston family; she wanted to marry Peter Alston.