“What?” Zachary frowned. “Robbie saw his mother?”

“No,” Bruce answered firmly. “I blocked his sight. He shouldn’t have seen Ms. Lindberg.”

“Shouldn’t have?” Zachary growled.

“I’m sorry for my incompetence.” Bruce was frustrated, but he didn’t defend himself.

“Calm down, Mr. Nacht,” Ben advised him. “You can’t hide it forever. Ms. Lindberg is still going to make a public appearance on the South Sea territorial waters project’s opening day. Even if the people from Southridge and Northridge aren’t seeing one another right now, they’d know she’s back on that day.”

Zachary frowned after hearing the explanation. “When’s the opening?”

 

“Thirteenth next month,” Ben answered hastily. “It’s already twenty-ninth today.”

“So we have sixteen days to work with.” Zachary tapped the armrest of his leather chair, then he told Bruce, “Call Cynthia. If she’s holding up, tell her to have dinner with me tonight.”

 

request, but he quickly answered,

but he didn’t look relaxed. In fact, he was tense. I

that. We’ll settle this before then,” Ben calmed

Ben called back, “Ms. Blackwood

surprised to hear that. He thought Cynthia would accept the invitation no matter what, but he never expected her to say no. “I see.”

her yesterday, and she couldn’t even get out

talk about this later. For now, let’s settle

“Yes.”

day and refused all appointments for that night. He wanted to go home soon and spend some time with his kids, but it was

be in a good mood, and he laughed heartily. “Good form, Cynthia. Good form. Not many people out there have the

down and

his head and sighed. “It’s his

for a moment, then she apologized, ‘I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have

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