“Mother, please just stop. Linda is already lying in the morgue, so what else do you want?” Yorick felt very upset too.Madam Vanderbilt shut up wisely.Maisie did not take Madam Vanderbilt’s words to heart and looked at Yorick. “I’ll pay for the funeral’s expenses. We’ll get to the bottom of the incident when we find out about the cause of the accident.”At Blackgold…Quincy walked next to Nolan. “Mr. Goldmann, I’ve located the nightclub for which Linda worked before this. The owner is known locally as Mr. Donovan, and he runs an illegal loan shark organization. His nightclub business isn’t clean either, as he provides special services for his guests.“I also found out that he often exploits his female employees, deceiving them into taking nude loans from him. When they cannot pay him back, he’ll get them to serve guests according to his requirements.”Nolan’s gaze looked keen. “Who does he have supporting him from behind the scenes?”Quincy skimmed through the information. “Am
The wording on her nametag showed that she was Cecile Wolfsbane from the strategy department.Cecile had a jacket in her hands, and Maisie was very familiar with the custom-made jacket that Nolan wore to the office earlier this morning.Maisie raised his eyebrows slightly and chuckled. “Miss, is there anything that I can help you with?”Cecile lowered her gaze and handed her the jacket. “Mr. Goldmann has dropped this jacket. Since you’re his wife, please return it to him for me. Thank you.”Maisie took a glimpse at the jacket in Cecile’s hand, and her gaze shifted onto Cecile’s face. She did not grab the jacket directly from Cecile but asked Saydie to grab it for her instead.Saydie took the jacket into her hands, and Maisie walked into the elevator with her without uttering another word.The moment the elevator’s doors slowly closed, isolating the people on both sides of the doors, Cecile smirked out of the blue. She glanced at her reflection in the mirror, and her face was fill
“By the way, have we gotten anything back about Linda’s accident?” Maisie got to the point because she almost forgot about it. Nolan got up, walked to the desk, and took out a file. “Linda’s workplace, including the clients she had and her boss, all the information is in here.”Maisie walked over, took the file, and flipped through it. Just as she suspected, the place she had been working at had an illegal backing. It was impossible that Linda didn’t know about it. If she weren’t a willing participant, she should’ve gone to see Maisie when she noticed something was off.Nolan sat on his leather seat. “I’ve asked Tanner to check it out. Coincidentally, that loan company had dealings with his first love.”Maisie paused before she continued going through the information. “Illegal loans, forced ‘naked loans’, exploiting employees. How could a company like this not have been investigated?”Nolan chuckled. “No one did before this, but it’s happening now.”…The loan company was surro
Maisie looked at Mr. Donovan’s expressions because one could tell a lie through that. Even though he looked very emotional and anxious, his eyes didn’t avert. He was just explaining because he didn’t want to suddenly be linked to a murder.The police officers left the interrogation room and looked at Nolan, “Mr. Goldmann, I don’t think they caused the accident.”Nolan spoke to him for a bit, and then he brought Mr. Donoval out when Maisie suddenly walked forward. “Hold on.”The police officer and Mr. Donovan both looked toward her.Maisie walked to him. “When you met Linda, what did she say to you?”Mr. Donovan paused, looked at the police officer, and then replied, “I asked her to pay the penalty as soon as possible, and she agreed.”“Did you remove her SIM?” Maisie asked. He took a deep breath, almost out of patience. “Why would I do that? I didn’t think she would have the guts to call the police on me.”“That’s all then.” After Maisie said that, the police officer took him
Nolan chuckled, hugged Maisie by her shoulder, and took the paper. “I can, but…” He leaned in closer, “I want a reward.”Maisie looked at Quincy through the corner of her eyes. “Don’t look.”Quincy quietly looked out the window. “I won’t, but you need to make it quick. I need to drive.”Maisie kissed Nolan on his lips which made him flash a big smile, and pulled her back in for a deeper kiss.After a minute, she pulled back with her face fully blushing and cleared her throat. “Quincy, you can drive now.”Quincy sighed. He shouldn’t have stayed in the car.Nolan picked up the laptop and opened an app while Maisie leaned closer to look, putting her head closer to his body. Seeing how this hairy thing was blocking his eyesight, he helplessly smiled and pressed her head onto his chest. “Don’t look too close. It’s bad for your eyes.”Maisie blinked and looked up at him. “I know, I’m just curious…”Nolan rarely used his hacking skills, and it had been a few years since the previous t
“Was I wrong?” Colton was annoyed. “You’re going to watch a movie during the weekend. I hope you don’t complain about him not treating you like a friend.”When Nollace had left her, she had cried to him and said that he never treated her like a friend.“You—” Daisie was so angry she could no longer eat, so she got up and stomped upstairs.Colton continued sitting there and finished his food.Maisie looked helpless, so she threw a rib into his bowl. “You should stop teasing her.”“I will,” Colton lazily replied. “I don’t want her not to learn from her past. She can’t just keep getting attached to every boy she meets. We don’t know if the men have bad intentions.”He didn’t like Zephir because he could see there was something off about him. His sister couldn’t see it.Maisie was surprised.Nolan, who was quiet, couldn't help but laugh. “It’s great that Colton is trying to protect his sister.”Maisie suddenly asked, “Daisie is going to the movies with Zephir?”“Yes, she tried to
That was why she didn’t tell Colton that she was going to the movies. Since she had promised Zephir, she couldn't just cancel it.Maisie smiled and rubbed her head. “I understand. You just don’t want your friends to feel bad, right?”Daisie nodded, and Maisie smiled warmly. “All you need to do is to speak to Colton. Look, if you don’t tell him how you feel, you’ll be protecting your friends but hurting your family because he did it out of care. He was upset when you talked back.”Daisie thought about it for a long time, and the anger in her heart soon disappeared. She stood up. “Mom, I’ll go talk to him now.’She ran out of the room. Maisie walked out and was startled by Nolan, who was leaning on the wall with his arms crossed. “How long have you been there?”“Not long.” He smiled and looked at her. “You managed to convince Daisie so quickly.”“Well, it’s because I gave birth to her.” Maisie raised her brows. Nolan took a step forward and leaned down to give her a warm kiss o
Maisie frowned. “What kind of a woman?”“I… I’m not sure about it. I was taking care of the kid at that time, so I wasn’t looking. I just heard her voice. She said that she’s Linda’s friend and that she’s here to help Linda get her stuff.”The wife of the deceased thought for a moment and continued. “My mother-in-law received $300 when she came back. She told me that that woman gave her a tip, and my mother-in-law was delighted.”Inside the car…Maisie leaned against the back of the seat with her arms crossed in front of her chest and fell in deep thought.‘Is the woman who came to Linda’s house Maxine? If it's her, why did she come to Linda's place? To find or to destroy any evidence?’The landlady had been killed today, and Maisie felt that it was too coincidental. It seemed to her that an invisible hand was manipulating everything from the dark.It was as if the mysterious woman named Maxine was trying to destroy all the evidence against her. The SIM, the things in the reside