“Well, yes,” Shane replied as he massaged his own forehead.

Natalie then looked toward Lina. “Then Lina ought to get a share too.”

Even though she was not under the employ of Thompson Group, there would be no playing favorites between everyone who was on their side right now.

“Yeah, sure.” Shane nodded.

“Wow. Me too?” Lina’s eyes lit up.

“That’s right. Mr. Shane’s so generous,” said Sally in a toothy grin.

Lina could not stop giggling as well.

Natalie cleared her throat. “Why are all of you only praising Mr. Shane? What about me? Wasn’t I the one who fought for your welfare?”

“Yes, yes, yes. Mrs. Thompson’s also very generous. The most generous of them all.” Lina and Sally’s responsive fawning immediately left Natalie nonplussed.

“Oh yeah, Nat. Hurry up and tell Mr. Shane what happened,” Lina said with a straight face after the time for playfulness had passed. “What’s she talking about?” Shane regarded Natalie with a frown.

her, Natalie related what she heard from

“So, Nat. Do you figure that Jacqueline and her people will be looking

her, I can think of no one

at her, then

very nasty woman,”

Lina acknowledged, though unsure what to make

Natalie asked while

apart from that Jayson, we still don’t know who else could be in on it. As much caution we might exercise, we may not be able to avoid everything they

that even if we were to take preventive measures, there might still be designers who’d find a loophole to harm Nat?” Sally scratched her chin

work with the organizers

“Okay.” Natalie nodded.

just have to sit tight. So long as we don’t move against him, he’ll eventually let his guard down, thinking that we are hapless to act. That’ll allow us to catch him in the act if and when he tries to strike against you again. It’ll be a better position for us to be in than where we’re at now, which is without a

Mr. Shane, as we’ll have to keep him under constant surveillance while trying to

won’t be difficult for me. I’ll

smacked her forehead. “Right. I forgot that Mr. Shane is the chairman of the

picked up anything on Sean these past few days, Connor?”

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