A Divorce After My Rebirth

Chapter 286

Chapter 286 Skilled Demeanor

It turned out she had never truly understood him!

When Natalie had been by his side, the deeply furrowed brows she used to see probably weren’t solely due to the Johnson family’s internal conflicts.

There could have been something deeper behind it.

“Ms. Walker, are you alright?”

Wendy looked at Natalie with concern.

Natalie had been with Cedric for ten years. Now, Natalie realized that the person beside her in bed wasn’t what she had perceived all along.

It was normal for anyone to be unable to accept it, right?

However, Wendy was overthinking it.

After all, Natalie had seen Cedric’s venomous side. What did these things behind him matter?

“Why wouldn’t I be?” Natalie glanded at Wendy, realizing at that moment that she didn’t have many useful people around her.

Stephen had reassigned Karina.

Zane had taken an extended leave!

With only Wendy around, Natalie couldn’t help but feel a sense of…

“Ms. Walker?” Seeing Natalie in a daze, Wendy called out to her, snapping her back to reality.

Natalie’s gaze sharpened as she looked at Wendy

She said, “Wendy, I have a challenging task for you.”

“What is it?”

“I need to know all the business connections Cedric has.”

Yes, what other businesses were involved?

It seemed that knowing about Johnson Enterprise was only scratching the surface.

Was it the same for Palm Pearl Inc.?

Yes, that must be it.

Upon hearing this, Wendy’s expression noticeably stiffened. Natalie sensed her unease and furrowed lier brows

“Is it difficult?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

Natalie sighed.

This girl…!

But then, Wendy continued, “When I looked into Palm Pearl, I actually checked out some. things about Mr. Johnson. However, it’s strange.”

“What’s strange?”

was blocked out of, making it impossible

further.”

Impossible to probe?

Cedric have behind

could speak, Wendy continued, “And the

“Oh?”

came to Simeria, his case. was suddenly overturned, and all charges

was clear astonishment in Wendy’s

from Leon that he had trouble investigating things in Verde City. So, what Wendy discovered would

heard this seemingly irrelevant information, she was shaken.

“All of them?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

framed two years ago? There must have been some

circumstances, Cedric clearly had a way to

just abandoned it all?!

abandoned

от

as he had been in prison, no one could have compelled him to do what

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Zane and Dylan from Mr. Frazier’s side were investigating,

50…!

So what?

when Wendy didn’t continue her sentence upon seeing Natalie’s

bad mood.

admit that Wendy

a person give up resistance? Probably when they had already given

then, Natalie was

surface, Cedric seemed to treat everything else as more important than

He…!

was self–evident.

up on life.

seem laughable and even despicable now for Cedric to realize his true feelings back then, Wendy couldn’t find any other reason for

for now,” Natalie said.

this point. She didn’t want to

more.

seeing Natalie’s expression, she knew it

nodding, Wendy said,

left, leaving Natalie alone in

of a lighter flicking and a cigarette being lit echoed in the room. Natalie took several deep puffs before extinguishing it in the ashtray, suppressing the heaviness in her

chest.

Everything was truly

chaos made Natalie

Forget about not

were

she had somehow started wearing a mask when interacting with everyone

protecting her heart was equivalent to protecting herself.

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the cigarette butt

just as she was about to

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