Chapter 246 Checks And Balances

Kerr reached over and wiped the tears from Nicole's beautiful eyes. "Don't worry. Our baby's fine.
Everything's okay. You'll feel better soon, I promise." His tone was gentle and soothing.

When it came to Nicole, Kerr's patience and thoughtfulness knew no bounds.

If she was scared, it was because he'd failed to protect her. His heart filled with shame and self-
recrimination.

"I'm so sorry, Nicole. It's all down to me. I should have looked after you better."

Nicole shook her head. "No, no. It's not your fault at all. Someone wanted to hurt me and my baby, and
we never could have predicted it." The main thing was knowing that her baby was fine. It was a huge
relief.

Still, she couldn't completely get her head around it. Who could possibly be so cruel and vicious that
they actually wanted to kill her and the baby like this?

"We have to find whoever did this and stop it from ever happening again."

Remembering it now brought her skin out in a prickly, cold sweat. Fear struck deep in her heart. She
should have been more careful at the time. She'd been so lucky that their baby wasn't hurt because of
this.

Kerr took Nicole's hands in his. "It must have been Sunny. But don't worry. I've sent my team out to look
for her. I won't let her get away with it this time."

The reason he hadn't done anything to Sunny before was that she too was pregnant. No matter what,
the baby was innocent. But now it seemed that Sunny had been asking for trouble.

And she deserved to be punished.



Nicole frowned at the sound of Sunny's name. It seemed to her that as long as this woman was in her
life, she could never be at peace. She'd forgiven Sunny over and over again, but Sunny never left her
alone.

"She blames me for taking you away from her. But the baby is innocent. How could she hurt the baby?"

Sure, Sunny could be jealous, and Nicole knew it. But she didn't think the woman could also be quite
so vicious.

"Nicole, you need to look after yourself. Let me handle this." Kerr really didn't want to burden Nicole.
He hadn't expected her to suffer so much because of him.

After planting a soft kiss on her forehead, he turned and walked out of the hospital ward.

At the door, Avery and Bonnie watched Kerr leave, casting quick glances at each other. Together, they
walked into the ward to stay with Nicole.

"Mr. Gu..." Jared saw Kerr walk out and hesitated, unsure of what to say. By now, the whole business
circle probably knew that Kerr had been dismissed.

What Jack had done had undoubtedly made Kerr a laughing stock. Jared was worried that Kerr would
be angry if he found out about it.

"Did you find Sunny?"

Kerr didn't want to think about anything else right now. Someone had attempted to harm Nicole, and he
wasn't about to let it go any time soon.

"I asked someone to go looking for her but I haven't heard any news yet. Mr. Gu, about the Gu Group...
Something has changed." Jared hadn't dared to leave, so he'd asked Kim to look for Sunny.



Before Jared could say anything more, he noticed Kim approaching from the other end of the hallway.

"Mr. Gu, I've just come from the He family's villa. Daniel isn't home and they have no idea where Sunny
is now. Apparently, she left the villa in the morning before the wedding. Nobody knows where she's
gone."

Kerr took in the words,

his expression darkening.

"Actually, Daniel did come to the church once before the wedding. He obviously knew our plan. I
managed to stop him." Harley's explanation spilled out quickly.

He'd already noticed Daniel's grudge against Kerr and Nicole, but he was sure the man wouldn't stoop
so low. It was clearly Sunny who had sent the gift box to scare Nicole.

Maybe Daniel was just covering for her.

Kerr took out a cigarette, lit it, placed it in his mouth, and took a deep puff.

"Let me get this straight. Daniel is supposed to be in the Gu family now. And the Gu Group has nothing
to do with me anymore, right?" Kerr looked directly at Jared. The man hesitated, not knowing what to
say. How was he going to break the news to Kerr?

Kerr had already guessed it, though. He knew Jack would come up with a good explanation when he
spoke to Daniel. It wasn't like Jack hadn't threatened Kerr before. He'd borne a grudge for a long time,
ever since Kerr had established Ning Group for Nicole.

To cut a long story short, Kerr's removal from the Gu Group wasn't a huge surprise.



Jared nodded. "Yes, I just got the news." He admired how tough and unflappable Kerr was. The man
had just lost the entire Gu Group and yet he seemed not to care about it at all.

"Did they mention who would take over the Gu Group? Is it Moore?" Kerr knew that his father wouldn't
hand Gu Group over to Moore so soon. After all, Moore hadn't achieved anything in the company and
he was just an adopted son of the Gu family in people's eyes, so it would look suspicious if he suddenly
got promoted to CEO of Gu Group.

What was more, Jack knew full well that Moore was an ambitious man. He just wanted to take
advantage of Moore, using him to get at Kerr. As far as Jack was concerned, the two men could keep
each other in check.

"No, Kelvin didn't say anything about that. It sounds like Jack's planning on running the company by
himself. Moore's just his assistant." Jared thought back to what Kelvin had told him. He certainly hadn't
mentioned telling Kerr to hand the company over to Moore.

Kerr's eyes glinted meaningfully as he stubbed out his cigarette, his gaze focused on Zachary, who was
sitting in silence. "How about you? What do you think of all this?" he asked.

He waited patiently for Zachary's answer. The man always acted like he refused to have anything to do
with the Gu family.

Harley and Ken both also looked at Zachary, confusion written all over their faces. Until today, they'd
thought Zachary was Nicole's friend. They didn't know much about him, apart from the fact that he'd
been adopted by the Lin family.

Zachary always kept a low profile. Besides, he lived abroad all year round. It wasn't like they even had
much contact with him.



Zachary made no move to avoid Kerr's eyes. He opened his mouth slowly and asked, "Do you think I
will want Avery to end up like Nicole?" Zachary glanced in the direction of Nicole's ward where Avery
was.

Nicole was calm and smart while Avery was...simple. He wasn't sure if she could accept a life like that.

"If you want me to sort this out for you, you'll never be entirely free of it. You can never truly run away
from it." Zachary wouldn't shoulder the responsibilities for Kerr so easily. After all, Kerr was the one
who had caused so much trouble.

If Kerr wanted to leave, then he had to clean up his own mess first.

"Don't worry. I'll get rid of Moore for you before I leave here," Kerr promised. Kerr had been holding
back in the past, biding his time and using it to find evidence of Moore's little tricks.

Now that he had all the information he needed, it was time to fight back.

"What are you talking about? I don't get it. I've only been away for a few months, but it feels like a
century! I don't understand a word you're saying," Ken said.


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