Alice triumphantly sent the text as she stretched herself, yawning. Then, she switched off the backup
phone, went out into the yard, and tossed it into the man-made lake behind Blue Bay Villa.
There. Evidence destroyed.
“What are you doing? “ Suddenly, a cold voice rang out behind her.
Alice froze that instant, and it was only a long while later that she turned around somewhat stiffly.
Joshua stood behind her and leaned against one of the gazebo’s pillars. He fixed his cool, impassive
gaze on Alice’s face.
Alice suddenly felt grateful that she texted Irene instead of calling her.
Did he…notice anything?
Alice let out a small cough and tried to suppress the panic she was feeling. “It’s a backup phone that I
used when conducting business abroad. I found it just now and discovered it had already broken, so I
can’t use it anymore. I threw it into the lake out of frustration.“
She scratched her head sheepishly. “Was I too rash? Maybe it wasn’t a good idea to throw it into the
lake. It might pollute the water…“
“You’re right. It might pollute the lake.“ Joshua glanced at her, then turned to look at the lake and said
sternly, “Why don’t I get someone to fish it out?”
Alice bit down on her lip. “I don’t think that’s necessary.“ She turned around and pretended to gaze at the
lake wistfully. “This lake is so big, and it’ll probably take ages for anyone to find anything in there. It
doesn’t seem worth it to spend so much time and effort just to fish out a broken backup phone. What do
you think?“
Joshua shot her an impassive smile, then turned around and headed back into the house. “Since that’s
what you think, I’ll do it your way.“
Alice could not help but let out a sigh of relief at his response.
However, little did she know, this sigh did not manage to escape Joshua’s sharp ears.
His footsteps did not stop, but the glint in his eyes turned cold.
8 a.m.
Lynch Group Tower.
Luna got out of a taxi in front of the building. Just as she entered the doors, she bumped into Jason.
“Ms. Luna.“ Jason approached her with a smile. “I’ll be working here as a security guard from now on.
It’s nice to see you.“
“That’s great. Work hard, Jason.“
Luna had spent all night bracing herself for their inevitable meeting, so this morning, when she bumped
into Jason, she did not behave as strangely as when she last saw him.
Despite that, however, terror inevitably tingled her senses.
“Can you come with me to visit Bonnie after work?“ he asked, beaming at her.
Luna gave him a gentle smile in return. “Sure.“
She continued to talk with him for a while before she finally headed toward the elevator.
This was the start of the day, so naturally, there were many people in the elevator.
Luna stood at the front of the line and gazed up at the floor numbers in silence.
“She’s so pretty, but I never knew how promiscuous she was…“
“I didn’t believe all those rumors at first. How could she possibly want to have sexual relations with the
security guards? I saw her chatting with the new security guard just now, though, and they even planned
to go out this evening…“
“Tsk, tsk. How desperate is she?“
Luna squinted when she heard the whispers behind her.
However, she did not feel like arguing with these people. Sometimes, the more a person tried to explain,
the more complicated things would get, so it was best just to let it be.
Suddenly, a voice rang out from behind her, “Be quiet, you guys. She can hear us. Don’t you guys know
what happened to that newbie Irene who talked bad about her behind her back? She’s such a cruel
woman. Poor Irene… ”
With a frown instantly forming on her face at the comment, Luna turned around and said, ”What
happened to Irene?”
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