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.

made a beeline for the construction site, spending

They'd been in cahoots with the Starlight Group for years, had several projects under their belt with clean bills of

craft, and the team's rep for honesty and integrity was sterling

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

systems go, and the completed parts of the project were without a

breathe easier. For now, the only pickle was the northwest pillar of the main hall still resisting the pile-driving, but they'd already penciled in another go at it, just waiting for the geomancer to give the thumbs up for an

was also keeping tabs on the

she 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

was Nell, supposedly long

her a ring once Nell was settled to clue her in on his status. But days

was

Sophia smelled something fishy.

in the cafeteria, Sophia saw Kent flying solo at his table. After a moment's thought, she scooted

greeted with a grin as Sophia approached, "Long time

nodded, "Yep, ran into a bit of a glitch with the construction, they needed the designer's two cents, so I

got me running the show here-if there's trouble, I'm

it might be a slip-up in the design phase, so