Chapter 88 

She put her reddened, freezing–cold hands into her pockets. “I just got here.” 

Her face was flushed red from the cold wind. He wasn‘t blind, so he obviously wouldn‘t believe her. “Get in the car. Let‘s head to the hotel first.” 

When they got to the hotel, the first thing Christopher did was take a shower. While he was doing so, Margaret kept thinking about what to say to him. Before she could make up her mind, the bathroom door swung open. He had a bathrobe wrapped around him. He lit a cigarette but only puffed it twice before putting it out again. “What‘s going on?” 

In a panic, she couldn‘t bring herself to say anything. Her face was flushed. 

He picked up the watch he had taken off earlier before showering and fiddled with it. “Does this have something to do with Jodie?” 

She nodded. “Yes. D–Do you think you could help out?” 

of whether I can or not. Every business has its ups and downs. Because of this matter,

a loss? It was the Clark family‘s mistake for losing the materials. As a businessman, I can only do my best to fix what happened

think about it from their point of view? Tell me how much you‘ve lost in total. I‘ll find a way to pay it off with Jo. Her dad

stop putting everything on yourself. You can‘t do it, so I won‘t accept your proposal. This

didn‘t know how to convince him any further. It was true that he hadn‘t done anything wrong. With a deep breath, she replied, “All right. I understand where you stand now. Just pretend

 

“That‘s not the way you should be helping people. It‘s so suspicious that the person who supposedly stole all the materials just so happened to die in a fire. From what I know, that person didn‘t even have the time to resell the parts yet. Anyway, I don‘t care about all that. That is for the Clark family to deal

But if even the police couldn‘t solve it, she doubted she had the power to do so either. It wasn‘t that easy to retrace the

head and headed toward the door. Christopher looked at the watch in his hand. With a frown, he said, “It‘s late. Just wait for me to finish

wasn‘t in the mood to hang around. “It‘s fine. Jo must feel horrible now. I think I should go spend some time with her. Is that

then you‘d better be

choice, she

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