The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 471

"I'm on it right away."

After getting the nod from Brandon, Kent spun on his heel and left the office, grabbing his phone to call up the chief engineer to get the lowdown.

The chief engineer wasn't hip to the whole scoop between Sophia, Brandon, and the entire Starlight Group. In his eyes, hitting a snag during construction and bringing in the designer to brainstorm solutions was no biggie-not something to make a mountain out of a molehill over. He figured he had the authority to make the call, so he didn't make a point to fill Kent in on the deets.

Now, seeing Kent ringing him up specifically about this, he was taken aback for a sec but spilled the beans to Kent anyway, detailing the situation and what's next on the agenda, assuring everything was under control and sounding hunky-dory.

Kent felt a tad relieved, hung up the call, and went to catch Brandon up on what was happening.

But Brandon's brows did a little dance of concern. "That place ain't the deep sea -why the heck can't we hammer in the piles for the main hall's pillars? Couldn't the survey team pin down the reason?"

Kent nodded, "Scouted the site twice, everything checked out normal. The construction crew's gotten a bit superstitious, thinking maybe they've stumbled on something spooky. But I mean, come on, who buys into that hocus-pocus, right? I'm leaning towards it being a technical snafu with the crew or some issue with the materials. I'll get someone on the case to dig a bit deeper."

Brandon gave a nod of approval, "Get to the bottom of it, safety ain't something we can skimp on."

Kent affirmed, "Got it."

Worried about the project hitting the skids, Kent dropped what he was doing and secretly dispatched folks to snoop around the Zenithan-style resort project's construction team and materials.

a beeline for the construction site, spending a

look-see and the probing, the crew seemed on the up and up. They'd been in cahoots with the Starlight Group for years, had several projects under their belt with clean bills of health

and craft, and the team's rep for honesty and

the building materials either-the supply chain was tied to a subsidiary of the Starlight Group, so no chance of bait-and-switch

systems go, and the completed parts of

pile-driving, but they'd already penciled in another go at it, just waiting for the geomancer to give

also keeping tabs

wasn't on-site, the main hall's pillar-pounding predicament was tied to the project's progress, so she wasn't exactly sitting pretty about it, touching base with Tomas now and then for the

was Nell,

was settled to clue her in on his status. But days passed with nary

the reply was always "the cops are

Sophia smelled something fishy.

his table. After a moment's thought, she scooted over with her tray and

Kent greeted with a grin as Sophia approached, "Long time no see. Heard

glitch with the construction, they needed the designer's two cents, so

chided playfully, "Mr. Crawley's got me running the show here-if there's trouble, I'm your guy, no need for you to

was down to brass tacks with a real construction issue. I was worried it might be a slip-up in the design phase, so I had to scope it out for myself," Sophia explained, then hesitated before asking, "Kent, you got any contacts over at