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 have to terminate the labor

said to Kent, "Escort her out. I need

he couldn't persuade her to leave, quickly called

resentful, shot back at Brandon, “Brandon, are you afraid you'll

the meeting

the meeting room door and stepped inside but didn't sit

a section from the lobby's surveillance

was stunned, "How

footage exposed the relationship between Sophia and Theresa, and he wasn't sure if Sophia was

a history of this sort

to hide her relationship

surveillance room from the 17th until today," Brandon

Kent nodded, "Got it."

log I asked you to get?" Brandon

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

and work handover, haven't checked my email yet." Kent quickly added, "I'll

nodded, "Get on the surveillance

Kent nodded

the

distribute some pastries to the whole company.” He

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

had already left the

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

the company was big, with plenty of departments and hands to

delegated the task in the group

shock, everyone was more puzzled than anything else about distributing pastries company-wide, since it wasn't exactly a festive occasion. "Mr. Crawley's just had a baby

in his work group chat, and as

Crawley

Crawley's got kids

you're pulling my leg, right? Does Mr. Crawley even

not like we've ever seen Mr. Crawley take

A stand-up guy like Mr. Crawley, all prim and proper, not chasing skirts - he'd be the type to spoil his wife rotten. No matter how busy, he'd make time

My dreamboat, Mr. Crawley, has gone and secretly tied the knot and had kids on

married with kids, you wouldn't stand a chance. The queue of ladies wanting

girl dream without getting slapped awake? Boo-hoo. Why did Mr. Crawley have to brutally shatter

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 little princess too? As long as Mr.

care, as long as I

a care and roughly understood why Brandon had decided to suddenly announce the joyful news of his daughter. He was cutting off

not easy to broadcast the news about a wife who hadn't been won

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

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

after emoji lined up neatly

but laugh and cry, sending

there's nothing more painful in this world than watching

kids, and still having to put on a brave face and prepare

"Count me in."

"Me too."

"We all are."

of responses, someone finally asked

not that little cutie he