The Returning EX (Sophia and John)

Therefore, John couldn’t pretend that nothing had happened. He had to keep on investigating the case, even though there hadn’t been much progress so far. Even if it was a difficult case without much clue, he had to get to the mastermind.

A few days ago, the car that the criminals used to kidnap Robin was found in the wilderness. Although the car had been badly damaged, it was the same vehicle they saw on the security footage.

Following this clue, John found out about the car owner’s information and the shadow bank to which the vehicle was put up as collateral. The shadow bank appeared to be the base for a group of loan sharks. John didn’t pay much attention to it in the past, as the shadow lender didn’t make a big fuss before.

Since the kidnap had something to do with the shadow bank, John told Zack to investigate it. Certainly, the internal relations within a shadow bank were complicated, but it wasn’t difficult to find out some information, since the employees were not really loyal.

Two days later, Zack came to John’s office and told him that the problem was thornier than expected.

The shadow bank appeared to be a small enterprise that lent out money. Since the interest rate wasn’t exorbitant and they never tried to retrieve the money by force, they were not targeted by the authority.

It seemed that they were just an illegal business trying to make some money. However, upon closer inspection, the truth was astounding.

The shadow bank had its own unique management system. The closer it got to the core members, the stricter the rules became. Thus, it wasn’t easy to get some useful information from them.

“I’ve compared other shadow lenders within the city. It seems that this particular shadow

we thought.” A moment later, he went on, “Find out whether the shadow bank has other business activities apart from lending money. Take it slow. If they really have other businesses, we can start

then proceeded to

while longer, John rose and left the room with a cup in his

that Dylan’s assistant had done something wrong, as his expression

to console him. As usual, Dylan was magnanimous toward his subordinates, as though he never had

the leader to manage his employees. Without saying hi, he went straight to the pantry. After making himself a cup of coffee, he stood by the window

while later, Dylan came to the pantry with a cup in his hand. While he was filling his cup with water, he said, “I heard that your mother

John grunted.

but she was there to apologize instead of making a scene. The Flintstones had persuaded her to do

went to the hospital. Whether she was willing to do so or not, she had

filled, Dylan let out a sigh. “Your mother is a proud woman,

the topic by asking, “What about you?

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