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?”

many things that I was blocked out of, making it

further.”

Impossible to probe?

Cedric

the situation in Verde City

“Oh?”

But just before he came to Simeria, his case.

astonishment

investigating things in Verde City. So, what Wendy discovered would have been

heard this seemingly

“All of them?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

framed two years ago? There

the current circumstances, Cedric clearly had a way

he just abandoned

he abandoned

от

lifeless as he had been

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when Zane and Dylan from Mr. Frazier’s side were investigating, he didn’t

50…!

So what?

changed when Wendy didn’t continue her sentence upon seeing

bad mood.

Natalie had to admit that Wendy spoke the

resistance? Probably

Natalie was gone.

Cedric seemed to treat everything else as more

He…!

followed was self–evident.

up on life.

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

for now,”

this point. She didn’t want to hear

more.

wanted to say something else, but seeing Natalie’s expression, she knew it was better to

Wendy said, “Alright.”

left, leaving Natalie alone in the

lit echoed in the room. Natalie

chest.

was truly chaotic.

chaos made Natalie feel irritated.

about not

were

when

as if protecting her heart was equivalent to

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murmured, pressing the

she was about to

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