Female Novel
Chapter 865
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.”novelbin
Despite the old lady’s harsh words, Sophia knew what Old Mrs. Constance meant by that. In fact, Johnand 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 otherwomen 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. Beforethe 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 keepcoming.”
John rephrased his question. “That’s not what I meant. Let me put it this way, perhaps. Have you beenin 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 behindasking that question, Dylan didn’t seem interested to know either. As soon as the brief meeting wasover, John ran into the Bailey Family’s employees but saw no signs of Isabelle. Upon taking a glimpseat 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 totake care of. When it was almost noon, he received a call from one of his men who told him that theyhad managed to track down the buyer of the bug they had discovered earlier. Then, he was told thatthe 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 abusiness nor a job, which meant that he had no source of income at all. Nevertheless, the balance inhis savings account had never been reduced by a single penny, which indicated the possibility that thisperson’s life had been assured. Thus, he didn’t have to use his own money. Now, this is gettinginteresting!
John laughed at the thought of that, knowing that whoever was helping out this buyer had a hiddenagenda. For that, he ventured a wild guess that the culprit had disguised as a civilian when committingcrimes. Soon, John said, “This is getting interesting.”
After that, John instructed his man to investigate the culprit’s recent whereabouts and anyone else hehad ever met. Besides, he also told them to focus on the places that he had been to before. Justicealways prevails. Let’s see how long he can keep his tracks covered because I swear I’ll get to thebottom of this matter.
Upon hanging up the call, John stepped out of his office and headed to William’s office. Man! I’ve beendying to hear some stories from Dad throughout the morning. Thanks to my busy schedule, here isfinally my chance! Meanwhile, William was passionately engrossed in his work, even though heappeared to be busy.
When John opened the door and walked in, William looked up and shot a gaze at him. Upon witnessinghis father’s reaction, John couldn’t help but think there was something fishy that William was hidingfrom him. After all, William didn’t always behave like that, so John approached closer and stood beforehim. Without saying anything, he merely just laughed and stared at William, making the latter feeluncomfortably awkward.