When There Is Nothing Left But Love

“Let’s talk about how we are going resolve this,” Ashton said sharply. He then threw his documents on the table.

The table fell silent at once, and all eyes were on me.

I was unnerved but spoke slowly and confidently, “The project still has to continue no matter what. As for the theft, we will conduct an internal investigation. It is too big of a coincidence for both the surveillance and equipment to malfunction at the same time.”

Joseph frowned. “We’ve investigated everybody at the base. They’re all clean.”

“Isn’t that the biggest suspicion?” I protested. “How is it possible for everybody to claim an alibi at the same time?”

“I will communicate your concerns to the police,” Joseph said after a pause.

“So we’re back to where we started. There’s no way to proceed with our investigation.” Rachel laughed derisively. “We are always-”

A knock on the door of the conference room interrupted Rachel.

Joseph got up and opened the door. Leedon was on the other side.

“Ms. Stovall,” he said in a panic. “The lady with you earlier is a friend of yours, is she not? Something’s happened to her. Could you come and have a look?”

Nora?

I rose hurriedly. “Mr. Fuller, Mr. Murphy, please excuse me.”

Armond got to his feet as well. After a mumbled explanation to the rest of them, he came out of the room with me.

who looked like he was in

adjacent is undergoing some renovation, and the lady fell into one of the holes dug into the ground when she was on her way to pick some fruits,” Leedon explained as we

asked with confusion. “Why couldn’t you just bring

more serious than that. There is no parking lot over here; it would have been a waste to use a

In that case, the foundation dug must be quite deep to accommodate the dimensions of

up?”

not sure. When I first came, Ms. Oberick appeared unconscious. She might have been

the outside of the base was difficult to traverse on foot.

crowd gathered around the spot. With some

to treat Nora, who

“What happened to her? Where

can’t be sure without

was placed on

the crowd as I glanced down to where Nora fell.

squashed. Those would be the

here by herself? An ordinary woman would cringe at the amount of mud around the site and would

carrying Nora away. Soon after that, Ashton and the rest

asked me as I stood next to the

do you think she ran all the way

be asking her that,” Ashton

questions. We got into the car and followed the ambulance to the