CHAPTER 645 HANNAH’S PROMISE

Chapter 645 Hannah’s Promise

In the dining room, Hannah watched Oscar very closely.

She felt this man always said the saddest things in the plainest tone.

"Once my birthday was on the training day." Oscar said peacefully, "My mom brought me a cake she

made before parting. And she said her biggest wish was for Cian and me to live a long life."

Hearing this, Hannah felt her heart twitch.

Although all parents wanted their children to be healthy, many seemed to take it for granted. Especially

for kids, no parents would frequently talk about living a long life. Because these words were basically

for the elderly. Parents would wish their children happiness, academic success, and so on.

"How helpless was she to this world to make this kind of wish?" Hannah thought.

"The cake made by her did not taste good, just like yours," Oscar commented.

Hannah couldn't distinguish much emotion in his indifferent tone.

"But it's warm and toasty." Oscar smiled and said, "That was the first and the last time I ate my mom's

cake. The next time I saw her, her body had been dumped at sea. At that moment I suddenly

understood the meaning of living a long life my mom said. And I also seemed to understand their

abandonment and cruel training in my childhood."

"Oscar," Hannah took his hand tight to warm him, "I'll make a cake for you every year."

Oscar slightly smiled, and his eyes seemed to sparkle because of tears, "Right."

And those sad feelings were just hidden by him. He never allowed himself to get down or to be sad.

Oscar was about to go to work. Hannah had asked for a day off today. After dropping Oscar off, Jimmy

turned back to the Cooper building to pick up Hannah and headed for home.

She wanted to give Oscar a surprise.

As Hannah arrived at the villa, Max also felt surprised looking at her. But he quickly knew what she was

going to do. Then Max accompanied Hannah in decorating the room. Property © .

Max was no less careful with her than Oscar. He even was more nervous than Oscar. If she had any

big body movements, he would have almost had a heart attack.

Hannah couldn't help but sigh that Max and Oscar were such a consistent family.

Finally, they gave the villa good decoration. And Hannah rest satisfied to wait for her husband to come

home.

In the afternoon, Hannah called Manuel and Theodore respectively to invite them for dinner. Both of

them accept her invitation immediately.

Theodore was even kind of excited. He had to look after Little Bunny who was in her rest of

confinement, so Hannah guessed he must have felt bored at home. And now he could get some fresh

air outside.

Compared to Theodore, Manuel was calmer and more collected. He just said he would try to leave

work on time.

After hanging up, Manuel continued to concentrate on his work. Sometimes he even wanted to enrich

himself with work or numb his mind.

"Mr Johnson." Callie knocked and opened the door.

"Uh-huh?"

"The inner council will be held in ten minutes."

"OK." Manuel nodded.

Callie wondered if she had imagined that Manuel had become more addicted to his work since Susan

left him. Although he also worked hard before, his attitude towards work didn't seem so fanatical at that

time. Currently, he was just like an AI machine without a human soul.

Then she sighed because she had no idea why Susan would choose Henry. In the public eye, Manuel

was so much better than Henry.

Ten minutes later, Manuel was sitting in the conference room.

There would be an inner council every week to reanalyze the work from last week and make plans for

next week.

Manuel gave an earnest and methodical report on the operation of the whole company, which focused

on the current maintenance business of the large groups. And he concluded that it had a good trend.

For the moment Sway Bank didn't end well, and there was a rumour among the bank that it would

withdraw its hosting in Northfield.

It wasn't a rumour.

Henry was clear that Sway Bank had prepared for its escape. And he also offended them openly.

If he hadn't caught out the responsible person in Northfield appointed by Sway Group, both of them,

Henry and the representative from Sway, would have been held legally responsible. Besides, their

business cooperation was already against commercial law. So the person in charge of the other side

also dare not offend Henry and could only eat grievances quietly. But since then he had been

blacklisted in the international banking market and was certain to be excluded. That meant it was

difficult for him to develop in this industry in the future if he didn't work at Phillips Bank.

The flames of anger inside Henry were fanned by Manuel's report.

He wanted for the end of Manuel's presentation while gritting his teeth secretly.

After listening to the result, everyone applauded Manuel. They hadn't had much hope for this business

or expected he would deal with it. Accordingly, Manuel did impress them all this time.

If anyone still claimed that Manuel got where he was with the help of a personal connection, that would

be seen as making trouble out of nothing.

Later, Manuel went back to his seat. And the board members were all complimenting him.

As always, Susan attended the meeting too. Sitting in the corner, she could still see Manuel shine like a

diamond now. Unexpectedly, Manuel had become an abler, better person since she left.

Susan put a slightly bitter smile on, although she felt good for him in her heart. She lowered her head,

listening everyone to praise Manuel.

Only a few people knew how hard he worked to get where he was now.

In such a harmonious meeting, a member of the board suddenly stated, "I have to say Mr Johnson has

been a great surprise to our company since he came here. In this case, we gave Sway a loud slap in

the face! That dismisses the minds of those who want to enter Northfield!"

Other members of the board echoed him, which was obviously to please Manuel.

"I admire and even esteem you with all my heart, but..."

As if having anticipated what he would say, Manuel looked at him calmly.

"I'm wondering if the promise you made when you joined the company still holds up."

No matter how well Manuel did, there would still be someone who spitefully cared about his former

promise.

Before Manuel could say what he wanted, Edward spoke, "Manuel has already delivered more than

what he promised before. So we don't have to go back to the past, right? Markets need to be flexible,

and we need that, too!"

He was clearly defending Manuel, which made Henry's expression more malicious.