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

cops just called. After some

solo job or a gang thing?

but the cops

twenties did us over, fresh from a stint in the slammer for a bar fight. At first, they were playing hardball, insisting they

innocent Cornelia under the bus. Zack was fuming when he heard this. He didn’t want to bring it up with Cornelia, fearing it would hit her hard. But he thought, why should Cornelia bear the brunt of someone else’s

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

Those who smear a girl with such dirty

two are, they couldn’t escape the eagle eyes of the cops and the hard facts. The cops found not just one fishy money 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

the drift, “So, even though both the police and us know that Clair’s the

right” Zack 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

recently, all the earnings went towards buying a house and paying the mortgage. They already splurged

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