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

ground when she was on her way to pick some fruits,” Leedon explained as we

dug aren’t that deep,” I asked with confusion. “Why couldn’t you just bring her

have been a waste to use a plot of land as parking spots. We’ve decided to have an underground parking

be quite deep to accommodate the

you brought her up?” I couldn’t help

unconscious. She might have been rescued, but she could

to traverse on foot. I

spot. With some trepidation

to

was indeed unconscious. “What happened to her?

her brain, but we can’t be sure without tests

over, and Nora was placed on it. They

I glanced down to

the bottom were several pears that were squashed. Those would be the pears

question is – what was she doing all the way over here by herself? An ordinary woman would cringe at the amount of mud around the site and would rather die than soil their footwear. Why did she

after that, Ashton and the rest came toward

asked me

do you think she ran all

asking her that,” Ashton answered, just

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