When There Is Nothing Left But Love (Ashton And Scarlett)

Chapter 765

“Let’s talk about how we are going resolve this,” Ashton said sharply. He then threw his documents on the table.

The table fell silent at once, and all eyes were on me.

I was unnerved but spoke slowly and confidently, “The project still has to continue no matter what. As for the theft, we will conduct an internal investigation. It is too big of a coincidence for both the surveillance and equipment to malfunction at the same time.”

Joseph frowned. “We’ve investigated everybody at the base. They’re all clean.”

“Isn’t that the biggest suspicion?” I protested. “How is it possible for everybody to claim an alibi at the same time?”

“I will communicate your concerns to the police,” Joseph said after a pause.

 

“So we’re back to where we started. There’s no way to proceed with our investigation.” Rachel laughed derisively. “We are always-”

A knock on the door of the conference room interrupted Rachel.

 

Joseph got up and opened the door. Leedon was on the other side.

“Ms. Stovall,” he said in a panic. “The lady with you earlier is a friend of yours, is she not? Something’s happened to her. Could you come and have a look?”

Nora?

I rose hurriedly. “Mr. Fuller, Mr. Murphy, please excuse me.”

Armond got to his feet as well. After a mumbled explanation to the rest of them, he came out of the room with me.

asked Leedon, who looked like he was

and the lady fell into one of the holes dug into the ground when she was on her way to pick some fruits,”

aren’t that deep,” I asked with confusion. “Why couldn’t you just bring

it would have been a waste to use a plot of land

shivered. In that case, the foundation dug must be

brought her up?” I

sure. When I first came, Ms. Oberick appeared unconscious. She might have been rescued, but she

to traverse on foot. I jogged along

gathered around the spot. With some trepidation in my heart, I joined

already there and were preparing their equipment to treat Nora, who was

“What happened to her? Where is

sure

over, and Nora was placed on it. They carried her swiftly to

crowd as I glanced down to where Nora fell. It wasn’t

pears that were squashed. Those would be

ordinary woman would cringe at the amount of mud around the site and would rather die than soil

Nora away. Soon after that, Ashton and the

asked me as I stood

you think she ran all the way over here

that,” Ashton answered, just as

shrugged without any further questions. We got into the car and followed the ambulance to

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