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    Reaching into her bag, Josie pulled out her phone. “I will call Stel and ask.”


    Sharon responded, “Wasn’t her phone confiscated?”


    After a brief pause, Josie brushed off thement and dialed anyway. Once the call went through, she asked, “Stel, which of the vis are you and him staying at?”


    The night before, Ste had been dragged back home and left alone in the vi. By early morning, William was already gone.


    She didn’t know the answer to Josie’s question, so she turned to Tasha for help. After getting the answer, she ryed the information.


    “All right, I got it. I will talk to youter!”


    Momentster, the call disconnected, and confusion lingered with Ste. Still, she


    Sharon kept pushing the issue. “How did you even know that Stel is able to take calls now?”


    Backed into a corner and worn down, Josie finally spoke up. “When Stel asked me outst time, she mentioned that William gave her phone back. It cannot go online or make outgoing calls. It can only receive them.”


    Anger red across Sharon’s face. “And you kept this from me the whole time!”


    Casting a sideways look at her, Josie scoffed. “Are we really that close to begin with? Why would I tell you at all?”


    Had the memory slipped her mind that they once shed like oil and water?


    Without Stel standing between them, the two would not be getting along nearly as well now.


    Sharon snapped back, and her voice carried an edge. “How can you say we are not close? We are nning to purchase a vi together, and that makes us co-owners!”


    There was no way for Josie to argue against that point. Taking on a house worth fifty million was far more than she could manage on her own.


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    Since Sharon was willing to cover half the cost, Josie no longer had the ground to keep arguing with her.


    Soon after, the pair tracked down a sales office employee and asked for the unit closest to William’s property.


    After checking the records, the staff member replied, “I am sorry, but that unit has already been sold.”


    Sold?


    Did that mean all their excitement had been wasted?


    “However, the vi has not been renovated yet. There is a chance the owner may want to sell, so you could try contacting them.”


    The moment she heard that, Sharon asked at once, “Do you know who ended up buying it?”


    Shaking their head, the staff member answered apologetically, “Sorry, we are not allowed to disclose that information.”


    Left with no alternative, Sharon and Josie sent someone to investigate again. What came back, however, caught thempletely off guard, because the owner turned out to be someone they knew.


    Rutherford.


    Sharon remembered Ste mentioning this person while she was still working at the research institute—how he’d been a huge help and had even provided her with equipment free of charge.


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