Chapter 40

Autumn frowned, pondering what nonsense the kid was spouting this time.

Jason was shamelessly grinning, and quipped) “Full service tonight. Let’s settle it all in one go.”

Estrella chuckled dismissively, “Sure, if you think you can handle it.”

Their shameless banter left Kristin and Autumn exchanging embarrassed glances, feeling awkward beyond words. Estrella and Jason had turned their cheeks crimson with their talk, yet those two acted as if it was nothing at all.

Autumn gave Estrella another poke in the waist. “Estrella, did I raise you to talk like this?”

Estrella furrowed her brows, turning to Autumn. “Mom, if you keep poking my sides, I’ll never be able to have kids.”

“God forbid!” Autumn spat out the words thrice, dismissing the jinx.

Kristín, caught between amusement and dismay, quickly tried to smooth things over, “Look, since the kids have agreed to make a go of it, let’s leave them to it and head back.”

Autumn nodded in agreement with Kristin, and the two women made their exit.

Once they had gone, Estrella gathered herself and headed straight for the Dorvold Group headquarters.

In the chairman’s office, Cole was on the phone. Estrella pulled up a chair and took a seat across from him. After Cole hung up, he looked up at her. “Aren’t you working today? Don’t you have the law firm to attend to?”

Estrella, with her legs crossed, probed, “Mom mentioned you were troubled by some company issue involving the Lamont family.”

Cole sighed, “You don’t need to worry about the company. You and Jason just focus on building a good life and having a baby.”

baby will come, but the company is

is our most critical project for the latter half of the year. We had a solid grasp on it, but somehow, the Lamont family got a hold of our project

percent less?” Estrella scoffed. “The Lamont family not interested

just trying to best us, to win the project and put Dorvold

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price is not high. If we go any lower, we’d be shooting ourselves in the foot, which might be exactly what they want.””

relegated to the second tier, which will affect us for years

him out, Estrella said, “Send me the project proposal and the bid to my

at the company.

have the time and energy for this? Can you manage with

time She was already heading for the door. “Just remember

Cole replied, rising to see her

get a firsthand look at the development in Digital Springs. “Estrella, what

with a grin. “Just checking out the city’s future

was because of these cases that she met influential people. After

any good spots, I might just buy a block,” she joked.

chat in my office. I’ll show you some promising developments.”

As she hummed to herself, ready to leave

Here on business too?”

“Give up on divorce

back, “Thanks to your family, I’m about to switch careers.”

got guts, challenging the Lamont family on your

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