Billionaire's match novel

---- Chapter 646 Khloe felt a twinge of guilt. Right now, the one who truly needed care wasn't just her. Nick's condition demanded attention, too. Yet Nick had agreed with her in advance: he wanted to wait until the treatment was underway before telling his family. At first, Khloe had thought this unwise. But now, thinking of Loretta and seeing Arista, she realized he was right. Otherwise, the moment could have ended with the entire family collapsing into tears. Back at the hotel, Khloe had planned to let Arista rest for the night and discuss matters the next day.

But Arista was anxious, unable to wait. She had brought numerous clues from the past, as if she wished she could lay them all before Henry immediately. Before Arista arrived, George had also contacted Nick and Khloe via video call, personally explaining the chain of events from back then. Years ago, to develop the energy market, George and three close associates had invested in a large chemical project. Because they trusted him, all project decisions had been left to ---- George alone. "The blueprints bear my signature. The suppliers were my choice.

Even the construction team-| picked them myself," George said over the video, his face pale and drawn, calm as if recounting someone else's story. "They were all technical experts and told me that some equipment specifications were off. But the budget was too tight, and I just brushed them off. | didn't listen." He paused for a long time-long enough for the video to seem almost frozen Even now, he could not bear to speak of those old events. Nick did not know the full story, and George certainly did not want Khloe to know either. But Arista had pleaded with him.

And after Nick and Khloe had been tailed and threatened back in their country, he had received several extortion letters. He knew that the truth could no longer be hidden. "At the time of the accident, | was on my way to board a plane. Nick's mother was critically ill for the third time. When | got the call, | only knew there had been an accident at the chemical plant -nine people had died, over twenty were seriously injured." George never raised his face. His voice carried over the video, steady, betraying little emotion. * ---- "IL knew | should have returned. But then...

| just wanted to see her one last time." He explained to Nick and Khloe that the accident had come suddenly. He had panicked but had no intention of shirking responsibility. He only instructed someone to pass messages, saying he would handle matters upon his return. After that, no one could contact him. "I stayed with Nick's mother for seventeen days. When she passed, it was quiet-I had no regrets. But when | returned to take responsibility, it was too late. My three friends had already gone bankrupt paying the first round of compensation.

Two of them, unable to reach me, were driven to extremes-one forced by the victims' families to attempt suicide, the other injured in a mishap while fleeing abroad. Only one managed... he somehow found a way to extract himself almost entirely." Out of fear and selfishness, George had abandoned them, never anticipating that the situation would worsen. The casualties eventually reached a thousand. Because of his position and the Hunt family's influence in Goldmont City, the blame was pinned on his three friends. They were powerless to defend themselves.

When George finally tried to take responsibility, all he could do was settle financially. The elders of the Hunt family and ---- company executives stepped in to manage the remaining public fallout. Immersed in grief and driven by the need to protect the family's face and interests, George ultimately chose to withdraw completely. But from that day onward, he knew one thing: he had lost his wife. And he had lost his three close friends.