Leo took a shaky breath. He finally mustered the courage to look up slightly, gazing at Mark with eyes filled with guilt and palpable fear.
"Forgive me, sir... I had no choice," Leo said without hesitation before finally lowering his head again.
In that tense silence, Leo's memory flashed back to the events of an hour ago.
At that moment, Leo had just stepped out of the elevator into the office lobby. His steps halted instantly when he saw Beatrice standing there, as if she had been waiting for him. Beatrice didn't smile; she merely gave a cold gesture for Leo to follow her.
They ended up at a private restaurant in a corner of the office area that was still closed to the public.
At the table, without much preamble, Beatrice immediately forced Leo to speak. Beatrice placed a document on the table—a document containing Leo's family secret, one he had kept tightly hidden all this time.
