“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.”

 

was startled by the request, but he quickly

relaxed. In fact, he was tense. I have to get Henry back to M

weeks before that. We’ll

same time, Ben called back, “Ms.

would accept the invitation no matter what, but he never expected her to say no.

her yesterday, and she couldn’t even get out of bed. Going out for a meal seems unrealistic for

For now,

“Yes.”

go home soon and spend some time with his

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

chess piece down and signaled,

Henry shook his head

froze up for a moment, then she apologized, ‘I’m

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