NOT THE USUAL CINDERELLA (Season 2)

EVIDENCE OF ERICH'S CONCERN FOR CLEOSA

"Eh. wait a minute. I'll be in the bathroom for a while.” With a little hasty movement, Alvero slightly ran towards the bathroom in his office.

While Deanda who saw Alvero's departure immediately leaned her body against the office wall while hugging the map on her chest with both hands. Deanda hugged her so tightly, because she herself was unbeknownst to her husband, actually trying hard to calm the pounding of her heart that was already beating irregularly due to her actions to Alvero just now.

With a smug smile on Deanda's lips that realized that while teasing Alvero like before, Deanda held her chest. Actually Deanda knew he himself would also be affected if he dared to tease Alvero like before.

Deanda herself felt so hard to control the pounding on her chest when her body was near Alvero earlier. There was a sense of happiness in Deanda's heart of realizing that both she and Alvero had each other and felt such a great effect on their bodies, as they came close to each other.

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“My Al, about the incident earlier this afternoon, I feel so curious. What exactly happened this afternoon? Why did you suddenly leave in the middle of our lunch together?” Deanda immediately let go of her curiosity by directly asking Alvero, as soon as she and Alvero returned to Alvero's study after they had finished their meeting earlier.

Because of their schedule to attend meetings, Deanda only had time to discuss the issue of Alaya's pendant, without having time to talk about Erich and Cleosa. Though actually he was so curious as to why this afternoon, Alvero suddenly left their lunch together with Erich.

“Nothing matters, it's just that I want to ask Erich if he actually has any special feelings towards Cleosa or not. I just want to make sure. Because actually, at the lunch event earlier, I've seen evidence that Erich does have feelings for Cleosa.” Alvero said as he removed the buttons of his suit, then sat leaning on his desk chair in a slightly aligned position with his legs straightened, to release his fatigue after the meeting of shareholders just now.

Today, the meeting of the shareholders is enough to make Alvero tired because so many questions about the business development plan of the company Adalvino, because Alvero stated to them about the company's financial audit will be, who will check the entry and exit of company funds for the last 5 years, in order to set a plan ahead for the company Adalvino.

For that purpose, Alvero deliberately announced that he would form an independent special team, so that the examination process would take place honestly and openly, without being influenced by those who intend to obstruct or thwart the investigation.

In the shareholder meeting, one of the attendees, of course Eliana who has a small share of the shares of the company Adalvino because of her status as a wife of Vincent. Unbeknownst to anyone, Alvero's announcement and decision just now was enough to make Eliana shocked, as well as angry and worried. Because Eliana knew, Alvero was trying to find evidence to further suppress her position, and was trying to get rid of her.

When Alvero stated he would be serious about dealing with the matter, Eliana knew, it didn't take long, Alvero would surely soon find an abnormal flow of funds going on in the Adalvino company, he said, even before the last 5 years. The flow of funds is not normal because Eliana has in various ways moved some of the funds of the Adalvino company.

Eliana had even done corruption on projects that were not handled directly by Alvero, who at that time needed the acc of the Gracetian king. So that Alvero who was still in the position of crown prince did not have full rights to handle the projects.

While Vincent's health condition is declining due to the effects of drugs given by Eliana, which sometimes even makes him start hallucinating, he said, making it without full awareness signed the actual cooperation contract papers became a way for Eliana to commit money laundering crimes.

(Money Laundering (English: Money Laundering) is an attempt to conceal or disguise the origin of money/funds or Treasures of Wealth proceeds of criminal acts through various financial transactions so that the money or Property looks as if it comes from legitimate/legal activities. In general, the perpetrators of criminal acts try to hide or disguise the origin of property that is the result of criminal acts in various ways so that the wealth of the proceeds of crime is difficult to be traced by law enforcement officials so that by freely utilize the wealth both for legitimate and unauthorized activities. Money Laundering is generally carried out through three stages: the first step is money/fund resulting from a criminal activity/crime is converted into less or less suspicious forms through placement to the financial system in various ways (placement/placement stage), the second step is to conduct complex financial transactions, layered and anonymous with the aim of separating the results of criminal acts from the source to various accounts so that it is difficult to trace the origin of the funds which in other words hide or disguise the origin of the wealth of the results of the act the penal (layer/layering stage); the third step (final) is the stage in which the perpetrator reinserts funds that have fled their origin into wealth that has seemed legitimate both to be enjoyed directly, invested into various forms of material and financial wealth, used to finance legitimate business activities or to refinance criminal activities (integration stage)).

At the end of the meeting, Alvero could see clearly how the change in Eliana's attitude that seemed unsettled and looked so riled up, making Alvero more convinced something was wrong and trying to hide by Eliana. Seeing that, Alvero really hopes that the team he formed specifically to deal with it can soon find a suspicious flow of funds as he had suspected so far.

“Where can you be so sure that Erich does like Cleosa? Did Erich admit that to you?” Deanda asked with a tone of voice and a face that looked so excited.

Alvero, who had just daydreamed about the condition of the previous shareholders meeting, immediately smiled at the question from the empress.

“It has been almost twenty years that I have known Erich. Of course without Erich saying anything, I could see that Erich had feelings for Cleosa. Either just a little like or just interested, or even already in love with Cleosa. To be sure, Erich has more feelings towards Cleosa compared to other girls.” Alvero's words, which he said with confidence, made Deanda smile with a happy face.

“Moreover, Erich is not a person who will care about the safety of others except me, you and Ernest, because in his brain he lives only to serve and protect me. But this afternoon, we've seen how he helped Cleosa who almost fell down this afternoon. It was the only thing I would never do to an Erich, unless I gave him the order to do that. One of the strong evidence Erich cares so much about Cleosa.” Alvero added an explanatory point that made him so certain that Erich did have special feelings towards Cleosa.