“What?” Zachary frowned. “Robbie saw his mother?”

“No,” Bruce answered firmly. “I blocked his sight. He shouldn’t have seen Ms. Lindberg.”

“Shouldn’t have?” Zachary growled.

“I’m sorry for my incompetence.” Bruce was frustrated, but he didn’t defend himself.

“Calm down, Mr. Nacht,” Ben advised him. “You can’t hide it forever. Ms. Lindberg is still going to make a public appearance on the South Sea territorial waters project’s opening day. Even if the people from Southridge and Northridge aren’t seeing one another right now, they’d know she’s back on that day.”

Zachary frowned after hearing the explanation. “When’s the opening?”

month,” Ben answered hastily. “It’s already twenty-ninth

we have sixteen days to work with.” Zachary tapped the armrest of his leather chair, then he told Bruce, “Call Cynthia. If she’s

the request, but he quickly answered, “Right away, Sir. Give me

call, but he didn’t look relaxed. In fact, he was tense. I have to get Henry

before that. We’ll settle this before then,” Ben calmed him

back, “Ms. Blackwood isn’t feeling

surprised to hear that. He thought Cynthia would accept the invitation no matter what, but he never expected her to say no. “I see.”

serious injury. I saw her yesterday, and she couldn’t even get out

later. For

“Yes.”

wanted to go home soon and

a good mood, and he laughed heartily. “Good form, Cynthia. Good form. Not many people out there have the patience to play chess with me

chess piece down and signaled, ‘Is Zachary the

head and sighed. “It’s his

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