Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Owen adjusted his glasses, his expression unreadable.

The next moment, Corley crossed the street, heading towards Roseanne. "Was about to head up to see you, didn't expect to bump into you here." "Something up?"

"Yeah," he nodded, his face somewhat serious. "Can we talk somewhere else? Is that okay?"

Roseanne glanced at Owen, and Corley's gaze naturally followed.

"Fancy seeing you again, Mr. Reynolds."

Owen replied, "Not so fancy, considering you're here for Roseanne. It's easy to run into me."

Corley paused, his eyes narrowing slightly.

Owen met his gaze squarely, calm and unflinching.

"Half an hour, will that do?" Roseanne checked her watch.

"That's fine."

"Let's sit down at that coffee shop across the street."

there were mostly coffee shops and restaurants, and it was still quiet before the evening classes ended and students

was relatively

the point as she sat down. "What's going on?

incidents in the Maldives, our legal team gathered some evidence. But since we couldn't directly link it to the case at hand, it wasn't included

new while going through it recently,

Roseanne

look at

her a report, highlighting certain sections with a red pen, "Pay attention to the marked

through it, her expression grew more

venomous snake popping out of a gift box, according to the feasibility analysis here, it's unlikely Millie could have

frowned. "You're saying Millie

seems highly likely, given the

gathered his thoughts, "pursuing this further might not hold

officially

deserve to know the full story. Plus, it's a heads-up, Millie is not as simple

to avoid contact with her. Also, be wary of your surroundings and

if something comes up. I'm always available,

hands and shrugged,

help but

too busy for me to