“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

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

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

didn’t look relaxed. In fact, he was tense. I have

There are about two weeks before that. We’ll

time, Ben called back, “Ms. Blackwood isn’t feeling well. She

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

this later. For now,

“Yes.”

all appointments for that night. He wanted to go home soon and spend some time with his kids, but it was already

to be in 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 and win. You’re

put her chess piece down and signaled, ‘Is Zachary the

head and

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