Chapter 639

The phone suddenly rang, cutting off their conversation Cornelia shot a glance at Ben, signaling that he could scram, no need to keep hovering around her desk.

Once Ben took off, Cornelia picked up her phone. The caller was Zack. He knew Comelia usually didn’t carry her personal phone during work hours, so he dialed her office

line

Zack’s voice. “Cornelia, the cops just called. After some serious

“Awesome! Was it a solo job or a gang thing? Any puppet masters pulling the strings?”

scenes, but the cops can’t

Zack continued, “Two young punks in their twenties did us over, fresh from a stint in the slammer for a bar fight. At first, they were

the bus. Zack was fuming when he heard this. He didn’t want to bring it up with Cornelia, fearing it

“Cornelia, I’m not keeping this from you because I trust you. I want you to know, you can’t let

sweat it. Those who smear a girl with such dirty tricks will

transfer, but a whole string of their misdeeds. With the evidence stacked against them, they spilled the beans, including that Clair was the one who orchestrated the sabotage

the police and us know that Clair’s the puppet

sighed, “Those two blew the ten grand they got on gambling. They’re broke, can’t compensate us. Our loss of a few tens of thousands might be gone for good, and we’ll have to cough up for studio

made of money. Though the comic studio had been doing alright recently, all the earnings went towards buying a house and paying the mortgage. They already splurged

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