After the divorce, he begged

Riley didn’t believe Jeffrey and replied, “Doesn’t matter to me if you look into Amelia or not. I’m just wondering why Amelia wants to keep their backgrounds hidden.”

Jeffrey arched his eyebrow. He wondered, ‘Is Amelia really not her mentor?‘

“Dig all you want if it’s just business,” Riley said with a half–shrug. “But if there’s anything personal in there, snooping’s going to make me look like an ungrateful brat.”

“Didn’t you say your mentor retired?” Jeffrey asked calmly.

“Yeah,” Riley replied.

“Since she’s retired, whatever’s on the internet has nothing to do with her anymore. If you want to dig something up, try it,” Jeffrey said.

“Okay,” Riley agreed.

“Go ahead,” Jeffrey said.

Riley glanced at the computer screen with the security feed, hesitated for a bit, then finally gave in and decided to help him out.

Amelia had a different name, so even if Jeffrey tried to follow the clues, there was no guarantee he’d dig up anything. Besides, Amelia had some connection to Riley, which was just Jeffrey’s guess.

“Hold up!” Jeffrey called out suddenly, just as Riley was about to switch the screen.

Riley asked casually, “What do you want to do?”

Jeffrey thought he saw something, but it flashed by too fast. “Rewind the footage two minutes,” he said.

Riley obeyed, eyes on the monitor where Rebecca chatted with the middle–aged stranger. Seeing nothing weird, she shot Jeffrey a sideways look and teased, “It’s just a normal conversation. Don’t tell me you’re even jealous of this?”

Jeffrey didn’t say a word. His gaze remained fixed on the surveillance camera, never straying from the two figures on screen.

Right then, that fleeting thought in his mind finally clicked into place, all those nagging questions suddenly making sense. Jeffrey wondered, ‘Why does that guy look so familiar? Now I get it.’

Watching his face, Riley shot him a sly look. She thought, ‘Is he seriously jealous right now?‘

“Don’t

like him?” Jeffrey asked to

call them-”

blurted out before she

look, his eyes cold.

me two minutes,” Riley said, flipping into full gossip mode. She split her screen–surveillance feed on one side, digging up background

with Amelia, maybe he’s the reason she disappeared from

scene.’

through the first layer of Amelia’s defenses and dig up some info. But when she

clocked her sudden

Riley said, her fingers flying as she tried to break through another line of defense. “All I got was

‘Amelia was already this good at tech back over twenty years ago. If she hadn’t disappeared from the scene, she’d probably

already figuring he’d

fifty years old, CEO of the Guzman Group,” Riley read off the screen. “Back in his younger days,

everything he knew about it. The company was in the top

its growth was impressive. The current leader was known as a big–picture thinker, and a few years back, he managed to reinvent the Guzman

“Anything else?” Jeffrey asked.

mind still busy working out how to crack Amelia’s second layer of defense. “Once I dig up something more, I’ll let you

shut, he

up almost immediately. “What’s

said, suspicion churning in his mind. “Set up a paternity test for them as

replied, not missing

knew everything she was trying to find out. She had no idea he was

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the hospital room. With Amelia showing no sign of waking up, Rebecca leaned against the bed, clutching Amelia’s hand as she gossiped about her failed divorce and random everyday

Rebecca muttered, “Mom, if you keep sleeping like this, I can’t take it much longer. Honestly, I don’t know what to do. There’s no way I can win

and there was still no sign that Amelia was waking up. Rebecca was scared that if Amelia didn’t come around by

mom, huh?” Timothy strolled in to check on Amelia, giving Rebecca a

be

answered without