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.

beeline for the construction site,

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

with solid skills and craft, and the team's rep

tied to a subsidiary of the Starlight Group, so

and the completed parts of the project were without

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

was also keeping tabs on the

on-site, the main hall's pillar-pounding predicament was tied to the project's progress, so she wasn't exactly sitting pretty about

wrinkle was Nell, supposedly long

taking off, Jerry and Tomas said they'd give her a ring once Nell was settled to clue her in on his status.

the reply was always "the cops

Sophia smelled something fishy.

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

greeted with a grin as Sophia approached, "Long time no see. Heard you jetted off

they needed

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

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