“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.”

 

startled by the request, but he quickly answered, “Right away, Sir. Give me

was tense. I have to get Henry back to M Nation, or I’ll get held

before that.

time, Ben called back, “Ms. Blackwood isn’t feeling well. She

hear that. He thought Cynthia would accept the invitation no matter what, but he never expected

a serious injury. I saw her yesterday, and she couldn’t even get out of

For now,

“Yes.”

and refused all appointments for that night. He wanted to go home soon and

back. Henry seemed to be in a good mood, and he laughed heartily. “Good form, Cynthia. Good

put her chess piece down and signaled, ‘Is Zachary the

his head and sighed.

apologized, ‘I’m

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