I leaned back against the couch. I did not even feel like opening my eyes right now. I just reached out and caught the phone with my sixth sense. As soon as I did, I felt the phone vibrate.

I peeked at my notifications. Jordan had already responded.

"I don't care about these boring things."

The messages that Mullen had sent were, "I got discharged. I'm home now."

One would never respond if they were not interested. Jordan might seem annoyed, but that was not the case here. Not at all.

I replied calmly, "Really? I thought you'd want to know what I'm doing."

After waiting for two minutes, there was no response from the other side. He was probably ticked off that I had exposed his true intentions again.

This was just how I wanted it.

It was not fair that I had to suffer from being separated from my family while he was having the time of his life. What goes around will always come back around.

Now, I needed to calm down. I was planning to ask Tobias for help in finding out how Hendrix was doing. Although he might turn me down out of fear of angering Jordan, money was always a great motivator. I strongly believed that if I could offer him a high enough price, there was nothing he would not do.

Sadly, when I called him, there was no answer.

decided to send him a message. "Five

he immediately video-called

been so busy lately that I completely missed your call. What's going on? It seems like you've got a big deal to

already knew, but he was

we were not that close. Since I needed

know if Hendrix is dead

asked with

I'm giving you, there's no way the job is that easy." Since we were talking business, I did not bother

a glib tongue, he was fair. Seeing that I was not in the mood to joke, he immediately became

thought of it. Hopefully, you won't be that hard

froze for

it

usual fawning expression. "Haha, what are you saying? I've always been

so." I really did not want to hear any

come from Tobias but rather a gossip magazine. The media was honestly

joke either. "Wise CEO infatuated with C-list

it simply, Hendrix was supposedly accompanying

smirked. It made

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