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“Mr. Lock, are you trying to force me to do something against my will again?”
Charles shot back, unwilling to back down.
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But Finn wasn’t the least bit annoyed. His eyes narrowed slightly as if something had suddenly urred to him.
He looked at Charles again, an inexplicable heaviness rising in his chest. Still, he uttered a
sentence.
“She’s at Evermount Vi.”
Charles had worked at Lock Group for many years. He understood Finn’s stubborn nature all too well, and he also knew… that Finn’s feelings for Tess weren’t ordinary.
Charles’s eyes narrowed, the calm facade he had been maintaining finally beginning to crack.
Finn had actually stooped so low as to use Tess as a threat!
A year ago, he had been the one to send her to prison. Now that she was back living <i>at </i>her old residence, was she being subjected to deliberate mistreatment?
Charles clenched his jaw. His eyes were filled with utter contempt for Finn’s shameless tactics.
But facing that look of disapproval, Finn remained unfazed. He gave a cold, mocking smile. “Speak. Tell me everything you know.”
Charles’s arm trembled slightly. Bitterness lodged in his chest, but he still muttered in a low voice, “Nadine<i>. </i>Call her over.”
“Nadine?”
Finn repeated with a frown, his brows heavily knotted.
He suddenly yanked Charles by the cor. “What does this have to do with Nadine? Don’t try to y me.”
Meeting Charles’s defiant gaze, Finn’s fingertips turned cold.
If Nadine really was involved…
Finn’s throat bobbed, a wave of unease creeping into his chest.
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Judging from Charles’s attitude, it seemed the leak of Lock Group’s trade secrets a year ago might not have been Tess’s doing, after all. Somehow, it was connected to Nadine…
In that case, everything he did over the past year–his attention to Nadine and all the usations he hurled at Tess…
Finn’s lips pressed into a hard line. He stepped back in shock.
To Charles, Finn’s reaction looked more like disbelief that Nadine could be implicated.
He stared coldly at the once lofty man whose face had gone pale, his heart quietly crying out in defense of Tess.
Someone as good as her … How did she end up with the wrong person like Finn? If it had been him instead…
Charles’s heart surged with emotion, but a sudden thought doused it like cold water, and that feeling instantly faded. He slowly lowered his head and forced himself to calm down.
In the end, Finn still told Zane to call her in.
Nadine arrived at the file room looking confused.
After what happened on the street earlier, Finn didn’t ask her to apany him in reviewing the case files.
In the past, whenever he came to the file room, he always brought her along.
Back in her office, she had fumed and smashed things in frustration.
How <i>could </i><i>Finn </i><i>change </i><i>so </i><i>suddenly</i><i>? </i>
The more she thought about it, the more she med everything on Tess.
When Zane pushed her office door open, her face still carried traces of jealousy.
On the way over to the file room, Nadine felt dazed.
Something didn’t feel right.
When they finally reached the file room, she was brought to stand before Finn.
Finn’s expression was grim, his lips pressing together into a thin, tight line.
When he looked up, the warmth he had once shown her was gone.
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Across from him, Charles sat with his head slightly bowed, unresponsive.
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The strange tension in the room made Nadine’s heart race, and she began to feel uneasy.
“Finn… what’s going on?”
Nadine finally summoned the courage to speak.
Finn didn’t answer. Instead, he lifted his chin and Charles a look.
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Charles finally turned around and said in a cold, firm tone, “Ms. Nadine, it was you who first discovered the leak of Lock Group’s trade secrets a year ago and reported it to the authorities, wasn’t it?”
The question made Nadine stiffen.
She lifted her head in a daze. The three men before her were all staring <i>at </i>her intently, as if they were interrogating a prisoner.
A loud buzz filled her mind.
She instinctively cried out, “What’s that supposed to mean?”
Her startled outburst made all three of them narrow their eyes slightly.
Zane tried to smooth things over. “Ms. Nadine, it’s just a few questions. There’s no need to be so nervous.”
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Just one mention of that case and her whole demeanor flipped. Anyone would find that suspicious.
Realizing her earlier reaction had been too much, Nadine bit the tip of her tongue. The sharp, tingling pain gradually helped her regain herposure.
“Sit.”
Zane pulled a chair over at just the right moment.
Nadine’s legs were weak, so she didn’t resist.
Charles continued, “Ms. Nadine, you were the one who reported Ms. Tess back then. Not long after, you produced the so–called evidence showing that she had leaked Lock Group’s secrets to Hunt Group.
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“I wouldn’t have reported her without evidence!”
Nadine blurted out,tching onto what she thought was a loophole in his statement.
“Oh?”
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Charles let out a cold chuckle. “The evidence you submitted at the time was a surveince clip showing Ms. Tess and Max appearing to exchange something. And right after the leak urred, you immediately presented that so–called ‘evidence.”
Nadine listened, her expression turning to confusion.
She had thought it all through back when she staged the whole thing. There shouldn’t have been any ws.