“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.”

 

he

fact, he was tense. I have to get Henry

that. We’ll settle

“Ms.

matter what, but he never expected

couldn’t even get out of bed. Going out for a meal seems unrealistic

later. For now, let’s settle

“Yes.”

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

having a game of chess when Zachary came back. Henry seemed to be in a good mood, and he laughed heartily. “Good form, Cynthia. Good form. Not many people out there have the patience to play chess with me

her chess piece down and signaled, ‘Is Zachary

head and sighed. “It’s his

then she apologized,

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