The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 501

Kent was caught off guard and instinctively glanced at Brandon.

With his handsome face as calm as ever, Brandon asked, "Does Jerry have any bad habits?"

"Word on the street is he's hooked on online gambling," Kent replied.

Brandon's eyebrows quirked slightly, "Has he been going all in lately?"

Kent shared, "Yeah, I heard he even sold off an apartment downtown, and his wife is on the brink of divorcing him. They've been at it for months."

Brandon nodded, "Did you switch out the construction crew?"

"We're on it," Kent said, "currently scouting for a new team." Brandon nodded again, "Hmm."

The room fell into contemplation, but Brandon didn't dismiss Kent.

Puzzled, Kent looked at Brandon, "Mr. Crawley, anything else I can do for you?"

Brandon shook his head slightly, and after a long pause, he finally said, "Don't you find this whole thing fishy?"

Kent frowned slightly, locking eyes with Brandon.

"Jerry just happens to be in deep with gambling debts when he finds Nell and gets him a spot on the construction site, and then suddenly, we've got issues with pouring the bridge pier."

Brandon's frown deepened. There's this talk in the industry about 'sacrificial piling,' and Jerry's secretive maneuvers with Nell's whereabouts reeked of using him for a human foundation. Nell had no family, no one knew his exact whereabouts, and he had no ID - if he were to vanish, probably no one would bat

an eye.

But logically, this line of thinking didn't add up. If Jerry really wanted to use Nell for a 'sacrificial piling,' there was no gain for him. It would be an overkill for a smooth construction process unless there was a bigger fish behind the scenes pulling the strings.

Jerry was strapped for cash, so it wasn't impossible that someone might be paying him for some dirty work.

the person

suddenly remembered when Sophia stopped him from getting Theresa's DNA by inviting him to lunch, she mentioned dining with Zachary in Wye City

and Darcy said all was good,

If it weren't for the Starlight Group launching a subsidiary and needing new blood, who knows when they'd hire

had said

check on the new hires from that period -

had Don keep an eye on

Dempsey Architects secretly beefed up surveillance - still nothing out of the ordinary

only link to this so-called Ms. Barlow

discreetly investigated. She was just padding her resume, hardly

didn't give a hoot about work. She didn't lift a finger for

looking to cause trouble through Jerry was connected to

had been no word on

on Darcy and Dennis?" Brandon looked up at Kent,

names were becoming a

Ephemora division, got the boot from Brandon for playing both sides – peddling company secrets and favoritism. Despite being one of the founding fathers of

a high profile role so suddenly, plus the whispers within the company, meant insider gossip about his betrayal

when he landed something, it didn't stick. Lately, Kent hadn't heard a

its edge in the international luxury hotel market. They were fading from the industry limelight, barely making

Kent admitted. "If you

nodded, not surprised at all. With so many rivals in the mix, nobody was going to make a point

Darcy's currently managing a convenience chain hotel, while Dennis was abroad, running his

you stumble upon something?" Kent couldn't help but ask, noticing Brandon's thoughtful

got this hunch someone's looking to stir up trouble with the Zenithan-style

looked at Brandon,

out the building crew. Make sure someone's keeping an eye on Nell too, don't want any accidents. And don't

nodded, "Got it,