After Estella made sure that Roxanne had recovered, she obediently went back with her father.
When Lucian left Roxanne’s place, the look on the two passersby by the road outside Roxanne’s house changed, and they took out their phones to make a call.
Right as Aubree reached the office and was about to hold a morning meeting, she received a call. She frowned and instructed Charles to preside over the meeting instead before going into her office to pick up the call.
“Ms. Pearson, we’ve been keeping an eye outside Roxanne’s residential area for a few days. Mr. Farwell and Ms. Estella have come by her place yesterday and only left this morning,” said the man on the other end of the call the moment the call went through.
Aubree’s expression darkened drastically.
Ever since Lucian told her that he wanted to break off the engagement, she had sent men to spy on Roxanne—she wanted to know how close Lucian was to the other woman.
To her surprise, despite days of spying, the people she hired had only seen Lucian visit Roxanne’s place once, and he had always left quickly.
Initially, she thought she had made the wrong speculation.
However, not only did Lucian visit Roxanne’s place again, but he even spent the night there this time.
Aubree instructed the two, “Keep watching. Pay extra attention to the men who enter Roxanne’s house.”
The two promised to do exactly that.
After ending the call, Aubree stared at the documents on the table expressionlessly for a long time. All of a sudden, she leaped to her feet and swept everything to the ground.
Lucian has actually spent the night at Roxanne’s place! How intimate are they now? They stayed in a room together during the kindergarten’s parent-and-child activity too!
Aubree could still remember what Lucian had said to her back then. He had said that there were not enough rooms.
However, she was starting to think that Lucian had lied to her at that time.
That b*tch Roxanne! She quietly left back then, but now that she’s back, she’s actually clinging to Lucian shamelessly!
Aubree was livid.
Before Pearson Group’s morning meeting ended, someone suddenly opened the conference room door.
The executive members of the company whipped their heads toward the doorway in unison. They wondered who in the world had just opened the door.
Their confusion only increased after they saw the person in the doorway.
Ms. Pearson?
“That’s it for the morning meeting,” Aubree announced, her expression grim.
Then, before the executives could react to it, she turned to Charles and said, “I need to talk to you.”
Charles dared not dawdle at the sight of her grave expression. He quickly stood up and went to her office with her.
“What’s the progress of the matter I asked you to look into? Who is the biological father of those two children?” Aubree asked, her voice laced with madness.
I can’t wait any longer. I won’t let that b*tch get what I can’t get so easily.
At the mention of that, Charles creased his forehead.
When Aubree received no answer for a long while, she picked up a file and threw it at Charles. “I’m talking to you! Are you deaf?”
Charles had long gotten used to her bad temper, but his heart still lurched as he cautiously replied, “Ms. Pearson, I… I’m having trouble looking into this.”
“What do you mean?”
Charles lifted his head to glance at her face. When he saw the fury on her face, he quietly lowered his head again. “It seems that someone has deliberately erased her records overseas. Our men have racked their brains to dig out something, but our efforts have been to no avail.”
Aubree’s expression darkened even more.
The atmosphere in the office was tense.
Charles did not even dare to even take a breath.
A beat later, Aubree’s voice sounded out again. “I don’t care what methods you use; I want you to keep looking. I refuse to believe that she can hide everything!”
Charles promptly reassured her that he would do that.
Although Roxanne’s fever had gone down, Archie and Benny were still worried, so they made their mother stay at home for another two days.
Once she was fully recovered, she sent the two children to kindergarten in the morning. Just as she got into her car and was about to drive to the research institute, her phone suddenly rang.
After taking a glance at the caller ID, she realized it was a call from Harvey, her professor.
Thinking that he was calling about the project, Roxanne quickly picked up the call and asked, “Professor Lambert, what’s the matter?”
Harvey sounded solemn. “Did you offend someone?”
Roxanne was baffled by his words. “What do you mean?”
“It seems that someone has been looking into your matters during your time overseas,” Harvey said to her grimly. “That’s why I’m asking if you offended anyone in the country. The other party seems to be keen to cause a scene with what happened during your time out of the country.”
Roxanne’s heart sank. “Is it possible to find out who it is?”
“I’m afraid not. You should know that my influence is mainly over medical affairs. The other party has more influence than me, and I really can’t find out who’s behind this for now.”
Roxanne bit her lower lip as a thought flashed past her mind.
Lucian had once expressed his curiosity about her overseas experiences back when she was treating Alfred.
Furthermore, Lucian had also asked her multiple times who Archie and Benny’s biological father was after getting to know the two boys.
Now that he has spent so much time with the boys, is he starting to doubt the boys’ background? Is that why he’s making investigations overseas? Professor Lambert has also said that the other party has more power than him.
That thought made panic surge in Roxanne’s chest.
If he really finds out about something, will he take Archie and Benny away from me?
The more Roxanne thought about it, the tenser her voice became. “Do you know what he’s looking into?”
Harvey replied, “I can sense that the other party’s very interested in your social life over the past few years. They’ve been looking into the people you interacted with.”
I knew it.
Roxanne pinched her palm and used the pain to calm herself. “Then… have they found out anything?”
If Lucian has really found out about something, I have to prepare myself for the confrontation.
Harvey reassured softly, “Although I don’t have the power to reverse the investigation, I can stop them from looking further into this. After realizing that someone was looking into your matters, I did everything I could to hide what happened to you over the last few years. I don’t think they’ve found out about anything yet.”
Roxanne let out a heavy sigh of relief and expressed her gratitude to Harvey. “Thank you.”
Harvey replied noncommittally, “It’s nothing. You should be more careful. You have me to take care of you overseas, but now that you’re in charge of the research institute, you need to be extra cautious when you do anything. Otherwise, you might accidentally cross someone.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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