His Housewife Had Secret Identities novel Chapter 484

“No, I have to see Jonathan! Let me talk to Jonathan!”

Marina tried to push her way through, but the security guards quickly blocked her path.

One of them, a little too forceful, shoved her to the ground.

She ended up sprawled on the cold marble floor, utterly humiliated. People passing by stopped to stare, whispering to each other as they glanced in her direction.

But she refused to give up.

She couldn’t give up now.

Not with hundreds of millions in loans on the line, her parents’ entire savings at stake, the contract signed with Joker, and the penalty fees for breaking the mining deal—

It felt like she was being crushed beneath a mountain, each breath harder than the last. Nausea twisted in her gut; she could almost taste blood.

Her hands shaking, Marina fumbled her phone out of her purse and dialed Jonathan’s number.

No answer.

***

The Thomas Group.

Executive Office.

Jonathan stood face to face with Sprague. On the floor near Jonathan’s feet lay a shattered phone—thrown there by his father in a rage.

“I left this company in your hands, and now you think this entire corporation belongs to you alone?!”

Sprague was beside himself, voice cracking with fury.

“Listen to this! Just listen!” he barked, stabbing at his phone to play a recording.

“If Jonathan hadn’t given me that one and a half billion, I never would have beaten you so easily…”

It was Marina’s voice. No doubt about it.

“When you asked me to approve that loan, you never said it was for Marina. And I heard she’s lost everything—poured all the money into that failed mining venture. Now tell me, how am I supposed to explain this billion and a half to the board?!”

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