Katherine thought that Hector wouldn’t be able to text back soon as it was late and he was having a
closed training.
But Hector just called her after the text was sent out.
Katherine hurriedly took the call.
Hector smiled, “Katherine.”
Katherine said after pausing for a while, “I thought you were asleep now.”
“Not yet. I was discussing the next competition with Rosalie.” The result must be great as Hector
sounded merry.
Katherine meant to question him, but those serious words just got stuck at her throat as her emotion
was disturbed by Hector’s.
She the nodded, “I watched your performance. It was the best. Your voice was beautiful.”
Hector replied, “Well, I was all right. I was actually afraid that I would fall short.”
Katherine hesitated, “Well, on the stage... you... you said...”
Hector chuckled and immediately knew what Katherine was trying to say, “Is this about the speech I
delivered?”
Katherine replied yes indistinctly.
Hector let out a breath, “Actually, we talked about this when we were training. Nowadays, the show
would have a segment when one had to invite a fellow singer to do the performing. In order to hype up
the show, the program director would ask us to do the whole coupling thing. Rosalie talked to about this
before and I didn’t really like it, so I chose to say that I got a girlfriend on the stage at first to avoid
publicity stunt afterwards. I really wish to get fan support through my real talent.”
Katherine didn’t really understand this kind of stuff, but she had seen some coupling news online
before.
She nodded and felt slightly at ease, “Right...”
Hector cracked a smile, “It’s all right. No pressure here, okay?
Katherine thought for a while and figured that she was not in the showbiz anyway, so it wouldn’t be a
big problem.
So she changed the subject and asked Hector what he was about to do next.
Hector replied, “Well, for now, I still have to get this closed training and would perform on stage when I
have to till the final rank of the show comes out.”
It would take a long time.
Katherine thought for a minute and felt there was nothing to say, so she just told Hector to ace the
game.
Hector nodded, “I really miss you and hope this show can be over soon.”
Hector still got stuff to do, so he hung up the phone after Katherine told him to take care of himself.
Katherine finally felt better after the phone call.
After putting away the phone, Katherine let out a long sigh and finally dozed off.
For the next few days, Katherine and Marshall seemed to be giving each other the silent treatment.
Katherine didn’t know what Marshall was up to, but she was really hectic recently and was really merry
as Marshall didn’t go to disturb her.
She was really contented and didn’t care if Marshall was angry or not.
After all, she got nothing to do with him.
After a few days, Margaret felt pretty weird and asked Katherine, “Why didn’t Mr. Grant come over
these days? Did you two have a fight?”
Katherine chuckled, “Not really. Isn’t it perfectly normal that he doesn’t come here? We have nothing to
do with each other anyway, so we really shouldn’t meet for no reason.”
Margaret stared at Katherine for a while and then took back the words that she was trying to say.
Marshall was actually swamped these days, but it was not about work.
He was investigating Margaret’s kidnap accident.
Though there was no evidence to prove that those kidnappers were after Katherine, it just felt strange
when they would abduct Margaret and then drop her off.
Marshall had a gut feeling that this must be related to Katherine, so he had to get to the bottom of it.
Those were not many leads about this case, but he was trying his best.
The car that took Margaret away was found abandoned in the middle of nowhere several days ago.
Though the car was battered, it still can be matched with the car that the surveillance camera caught.
Marshall asked someone to follow the lead and then traced an underground bank where the car was
offered as a collateral.
On the face of it, the underground back engaged in loaning people money. Marshall didn’t know this
place before as it didn’t ever cause any commotions.
Marshall asked Peter to investigate this ban secretly.
The web inside the bank was understandably complicated, but normally, it shouldn’t be difficult to look
into something.
It should be easy to dig some dirt from such a crowded place as people here tended to give away
information.
But Peter investigated for two days and told Marshall that it was harder than imagined.
From the surface, the ban ground just gave loan to people with slightly high interest rate and didn’t
have much presence as it hadn’t never collected any debt by force.
It was just making small money by walking on a fine line.
But as Peter inspected further, he found that this illegal bank was not as harmless as it appeared to be.
The illegal had a stringent management system within.
It was actually pretty hard to scoop any information.
Peter found it pretty strange, “I’ve compared this loan bank with other ones in the city and found that
this place is actually managed by an insider.”
Marshall thought for a while, “Look into it. Things might get complicated.”
“Go and find out what other projects this bank is engaged in. Don’t worry. Let’s take things slow. We
can crack this place through other channels.”
Pether then went out and got busy.
Marshall zoned out in the office for a while and then got out with the water glass.
Lucas was talking to his assistant in the hall.
It seemed like that the assistant had done something wrong and was all upset.
Lucas patter at the assistant’s shoulders to comfort him.
Lucas was nice and generous to everyone like he wouldn’t ever get irritated.
Marshall didn’t really approve Lucas’s work attitude about this as he wouldn’t be able to manage his
staff well.
He went straight into the pantry without saying hello to him.
After making coffee, Marshall didn’t go back to his office and just looked outside the pantry window.
Lucas came in after a while with a cup.
He went to get some water and said, “I heard that auntie Frances went to the hospital again.”
Marshall didn’t even look back and just answered, “Yeah.”
Frances went to the hospital again a couple of days before, but she didn’t go there to cause any
troubles but to make apologies.
It was probably that the Masons had talked to her as this scandal got to have a closure.
Frances was really distressed about this, so she actually listened to the Masons’ lecture and went to
the hospital.
It didn’t really matter if she really did it from the bottom of her heart as long as she showed up and did
the perfunctory work.
Lucas got some water and let out a sigh, “Auntie Frances must pretty upset. She sure isn’t someone
who would rat the humble pie.”
Marshall sipped the coffee and directly changed the subject, “What about you? I heard that your blind
dates recently didn’t really go well.”
Lucas nodded, “Yeah. I didn’t want to meet someone via blind dates anyway.”
Then he just turned to Marshall and half-smiled.
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