The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 357

"This video's a bit off," the tech guy replied, sliding the progress bar back and forth. He discovered a two-hour gap in the surveillance footage from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM and was so shocked that his hands were shaking as he clutched his

phone.

Brandon also sensed something fishy, "What is it?"

"The footage from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM on the 17th is missing, just vanished." The tech guy replied with a quiver in his voice, double-checking the video and even the cloud storage, but it was the same story - the footage was wiped clean. Brandon swallowed the anger bubbling up inside him and asked with a frosty tone, "Has anyone been near the surveillance room lately?"

"No one during my shift."

The tech guy answered nervously. The surveillance room was connected to the security office, operated with a 24-hour shift system, and he was pretty sure no one had come by during his watch.

"Nobody's clocking out today until we get to the bottom of this."

After laying down the law with a chilly voice, Brandon cut the call short.

Theresa, who was busy with her own things, definitely felt the tension in the air and looked up, puzzled, at Brandon.

"Daddy?" She called out to Brandon hesitantly, "What's wrong?"

Brandon cracked a smile at her, "Nothing."

Then he told her, "Theresa, you hang out here with Grace for a bit, okay? Daddy needs to step outside to make a phone call."

He didn't want Theresa to see him getting emotional with his staff.

Theresa nodded obediently, "Okay."

Brandon picked up his phone and stepped outside to call Kent.

Just as he made the call, he heard Kent's baffled voice behind him, "Mr. Crawley?"

And with it, a slightly excited female voice, "Brandon?"

Turning around, Brandon saw Kent coming out of the meeting room, followed by Tia, and his brow instantly furrowed.

Tia, unfazed by his icy look, walked up with her arms full of documents and cheerfully said, "Brandon, we meet again."

Brandon's gaze skipped right over Tia and landed on Kent, "What's she doing here?"

Kent glanced awkwardly at Tia, then back at Brandon, "Your dad brought her in as legal personnel."

Tia was surprised, "Ah? Mr. Crawley is your actual dad?"

"Mr. Crawley" was what she called Daniel.

Daniel was the head honcho of the current travel and resort subsidiary, and

everyone there referred to him as Mr. Crawley.

Brandon didn't look at her, and just kept his eyes on Kent, "The subsidiary doesn't need legal personnel. Once the work handover is complete, compensate and dismiss as per the labor contract."

Kent, getting the drift of what Brandon was aiming at and worried Tia might press her luck, quickly smiled at her, "Ms. Temple, why don't you head back to the office?"

Ignoring him, Tia turned to Brandon, visibly upset, "Brandon, I haven't screwed up my job. On what grounds can you just fire me like that? Is this how Starlight Group treats its employees?"

at her calmly, "The department is dissolving, and there are no suitable positions available for the staff concerned, so we

Kent, "Escort her out. I

couldn't persuade her to leave,

resentful, shot back at Brandon, “Brandon, are you

the meeting room. Kent hurried

pushed open the meeting room door and stepped inside but didn't sit down, instead turning to face Kent

deleted a section from the lobby's surveillance

"How

it. The missing footage exposed the relationship between Sophia and Theresa, and he wasn't

history of this sort

mall's surveillance, Ivan had done this for her before. She wanted to hide her relationship with Theresa then, and she was capable of such an

surveillance room from the 17th

Kent nodded, "Got it."

that call log I asked you to

to Jerry to handle. I told him to send it to my email once he's done.

with Tia and work handover, haven't checked my email yet." Kent quickly added, "I'll send it to you in

on the

Kent nodded

turned to leave, his hand on the meeting room door handle,

to the whole company.” He

was taken aback, not quite catching on, "Under what pretext?" Brandon

already left

the go to see if Jerry had sent over the call log, while simultaneously arranging the distribution of pastries in

it done now, which was a bit rushed, but thankfully the company was big, with plenty of departments and hands to help. They'd had

task

puzzled than anything else about distributing pastries company-wide, since it wasn't

the pastries distribution in his work group chat, and as he expected, the chat exploded with

Crawley

moly. Mr. Crawley's got kids

pulling my leg, right? Does Mr. Crawley

ever seen Mr. Crawley take time off for maternity check-ups with

he'd be the type to spoil his wife rotten. No matter how busy, he'd

had kids on the down-low.

chance. The queue of

slapped awake? Boo-hoo. Why did Mr. Crawley have to brutally shatter

real, Mr. Crawley's marriage is so low-key he didn't even make an announcement. Why couldn't he keep it hush-hush all the way and hide his

care, as long as I bury my head in the sand, Mr. Crawley

without a care and roughly understood why Brandon had decided to suddenly announce the joyful news of his daughter. He was cutting off

who hadn't been won back yet,

and typed a message in the group chat, "Alright, alright, that's enough. Get ready to hand

with a barrage of emojis, revealing the defiance from the group in

emoji lined up neatly in

laugh and

in this world

still having to put on a brave face and prepare the

"Count me in."

"Me too."

"We all are."

responses, someone finally asked

little cutie he brought to