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.”

was insistent. “I’ll live well and the baby will come, but the company is

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 proposal and undercut us by almost ten percent. The higher-ups

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

best us, to win the project

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quoted price is not high. If we go any lower, we’d be shooting ourselves in the foot, which might be

a breath, “If we lose the project, Dorvold Group could be relegated to the second tier, which will affect us for years to come.”

said, “Send me the project proposal and the bid to my email. I

had a background in law and had interned at the

the time and energy for this? Can you manage

already heading for the door. “Just

replied, rising to

the law firm but headed to the Urban Planning Bureau. She wanted to get

Estrella replied with a grin. “Just checking out the city’s future developments. I want to see where it’s more suitable

cases, inheritance cases, and some minor cases, it was because of these cases that she met influential

I might just

on, let’s chat in my office. I’ll show you some promising developments.”

useful information from their conversation. As she hummed to herself, ready

on business too?”

his pockets, replied with a smile, “Give up on divorce cases to help out at your

“Thanks to your family, I’m about to

got guts, challenging the Lamont family on your own.”

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