Chapter 39

I found it. Despite its austere exterior, It was imposing. Its only design was a line of words engraved on its wall: Serve and protect.

Someone was waiting. I had seen him before the man who had reminded Soren that he had to leave while we were talking at the gate of the Kenway residence.

I parked my car and grabbed my bag.

The man introduced himself politely, “Good morning, Miss Taylor Jones. I’m Michael Kidd, Mr. Kenway’s personal assistant.”

“Pleased to meet you, Mr. Kidd.‘

He led me into the building, past the security check, and into the lobby.

“Mr. Kenway is still busy. You’ll need to wait for a while,” Michael said.

I smiled. “That’s fine. I’m sorry to have scheduled this meeting on such short notice. It must have disrupted his plans.”

We reached the top floor, which appeared to be a wide, clean office space.

Employees greeted Michael with deference as we passed by,

came with being their director’s personal assistant. He essentially answered to no one

lounge. “Miss Jones, please wait here.

“Got it. Thanks.”

walls were transparent, with a mosaic pattern starting from the

I could see a man with a grim, severe expression sitting

Was that… Soren?

hear their conversation through the glass, I could tell the

tense.

they couldn’t see me from inside, so I stared straight at

a man–who had

frown so

anything beyond furrowing his eyebrows to

wrong

le

the three men he was glaring at. They hung their breads,

realized I had come at the

ask for a loan after he had

Chapter 30

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