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Sophia responded with an affirmative hum and said, “Well, I guess that’s not a bad thing either.”
Old Mrs. Constance frowned. “That brat must have bunked down somewhere else.”
Despite the old lady’s harsh words, Sophia knew what Old Mrs. Constance meant by that. In fact, John and his
father had one thing in common, which was that they were both nostalgic and faithful men. Besides spending the
night at Matilda’s place, it wasn’t likely that he was playing around with other women some place else. I guess Old
Mrs. Constance understands that anyway.
In the meantime, John arrived at his office and attended a meeting after taking care of his work. Before the
meeting began, Dylan, who was one of the attendees, was approached by John with a question. “Have you been in
touch with the Bailey Family lately?”
Dylan was caught by surprise upon hearing John’s question. “Y-Yeah, of course. Their orders just keep coming.”
John rephrased his question. “That’s not what I meant. Let me put it this way, perhaps. Have you been in touch with
Isabelle lately?”
Hearing his question, Dylan replied, “Um. Nope. I only kept in touch with her at first due to business, but not
anymore after that.”
John responded with a nod to signify his acknowledgment. While he didn’t explain the purpose behind asking that
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtquestion, Dylan didn’t seem interested to know either. As soon as the brief meeting was over, John ran into the
Bailey Family’s employees but saw no signs of Isabelle. Upon taking a glimpse at those people, he turned around
and went back to his office.
After the meeting, John was starting to get busy as he had quite a number of things waiting for him to take care of.
When it was almost noon, he received a call from one of his men who told him that they had managed to track
down the buyer of the bug they had discovered earlier. Then, he was told that the buyer was someone ordinary
with barely any property in possession. This person lived in a normal-looking household situated somewhere
between the city and the suburb. As all the information hinted, there was no convincing reason for this buyer to
acquire such an advanced covert listening device. Besides, John’s man also told him another strange discovery that
this mysterious person had neither a business nor a job, which meant that he had no source of income at all.
Nevertheless, the balance in his savings account had never been reduced by a single penny, which indicated the
possibility that this person’s life had been assured. Thus, he didn’t have to use his own money. Now, this is getting
interesting!
John laughed at the thought of that, knowing that whoever was helping out this buyer had a hidden agenda. For
that, he ventured a wild guess that the culprit had disguised as a civilian when committing crimes. Soon, John said,
“This is getting interesting.”
After that, John instructed his man to investigate the culprit’s recent whereabouts and anyone else he had ever
met. Besides, he also told them to focus on the places that he had been to before. Justice always prevails. Let’s see
how long he can keep his tracks covered because I swear I’ll get to the bottom of this matter.
Upon hanging up the call, John stepped out of his office and headed to William’s office. Man! I’ve been dying to hear
some stories from Dad throughout the morning. Thanks to my busy schedule, here is finally my chance! Meanwhile,
William was passionately engrossed in his work, even though he appeared to be busy.
When John opened the door and walked in, William looked up and shot a gaze at him. Upon witnessing his father’s
reaction, John couldn’t help but think there was something fishy that William was hiding from him. After all, William
didn’t always behave like that, so John approached closer and stood before him. Without saying anything, he merely
just laughed and stared at William, making the latter feel uncomfortably awkward.
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