“Mommy, who is this?” Connor pointed to the woman on the screen and asked. His face was solemn.

Slightly upset, Natalie shut her eyes for a brief moment. She told her son in a disappointed tone, “She’s my colleague and also someone I respect. Normally, she is quite nice to me. I can’t believe that she would do something like this!”

“Are her drawings any good?” Connor asked curiously.

Natalie didn’t know why he would ask that but replied anyway. “To be honest, her drawings are average. Otherwise, she would have been a manager at the design department already.”

“Well, I know why she wants to steal your drawings then. She must be jealous of you. After all, you are so amazing! Only losers like her would do something like this.” Connor tipped his head to a side and speculated.

Natalie chuckled and was about to respond when her phone suddenly rang. It was a call from the private investigator’s office. “Ms. Natalie, we have gotten the results for the fingerprint swab. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find any other fingerprints apart from yours on the laptop and the mouse.”

“Alright. Thank you.” Natalie’s gaze darted back to the computer screen.

She noticed that the culprit wore gloves when the deed was done.

While there were no fingerprints, the original security footage was sufficient to show that the person was guilty.

She hung up, handed over a USB drive to Connor, and asked him to copy the footage into the drive.

 

into that, Sharon knocked on the bedroom

Stanley is here?” Connor’s eyes lit up upon hearing this. He jumped

times,

going on with

he isn’t this excited when

Stanley promise to buy

She stepped out in time just to see Stanley handing Connor a pocket

that?” Natalie pointed to the file and asked with a faint

a collection of postcards that I asked Uncle Stanley

so?” Natalie threw

his glasses and flashed her a gentle

about that. Why don’t you keep Uncle Stanley company while I’ll go and make us some food?” Natalie didn’t probe further after receiving confirmation from Stanley. She headed to the

her and

Stanley and Connor were left

file and scanned the document. When he saw the results, his eyes dimmed and he remarked with dismay, “Uncle Stanley, Mr.

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