Chapter 626

Juan leaned in. “Who did you go to see ‘Absurd World‘ with?”

Debra’s heart pounded. “You’re still clinging to that? I went with Erica. Is that a problem?”

But Juan was relentless. “I had Joe check the ticket records for every theater in Seamar City. There’s no trace of you or Erica. You didn’t go to any cinema. Why did you lie?”

Debra’s jaw dropped.

“You’re insane,” she managed to say. “Joe is your top secretary, and you made him dig through ticket records? You’ve officially lost it.”

“Absurd World‘ wasn’t a box office hit. It wasn’t hard to check,” Juan said, his tone serious. “Stop dodging the question. Why did you lie?”

Debra knew that he liked the film, something even Joe didn’t know.

In the past, Debra’s eyes had always been filled with fear and disgust when she looked at him, could never understand what he had done wrong.

and he

family. A businessman’s intuition told

amiss.

land that turned into the McKinney Group’s first major commercial street. Everyone thought it was

as Juan moved closer to her. “What else are you

Juan’s relentless questioning, Debra steadied her

know about her rebirth. Talk of

come up with an excuse, a sound from outside the cave

breath hitched. Juan grabbed her hand and pulled

the thick bushes at the entrance, they saw two burly men dressed in black raincoats. Their guns were gleaming under the faint

Debra whispered,

men weren’t leaving, maybe having found their hiding

couldn’t go out

leaned in closer and whispered,

sure enough, she could feel a faint breeze against her

hard to believe since they

crept deeper into the cave, their movements slow and deliberate. Soon, Juan found the source–a narrow tunnel, where the wind was coming through. It was their

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