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Chapter 426
"Sure." Stella asked while unlocking the safe, "Where should we meet?"
’I'll meet you at the same cafe where you asked me to be your lawyer for the first time." Marshall said
gently, "Be careful on the road. Everybody's getting off work now, and there'll be a lot of cars. It's fine if
you come a little late."
Indeed, the traffic jam was as terrible as Marshall said.
It took Stella more than thirty minutes to reach her destination when it was only supposed to take her
twenty minutes.
Marshall had already been waiting for some time when Stella arrived at the cafe.
He sat at the same place near the window, and he could see everything that was happening on the
road clearly.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtStella pulled the chair and softly said, "Sorry to keep you waiting.’
Marshall replied in a gentle voice, "It's fine. I just got off work." Then, he asked, "Would you like
anything to drink?"
"I'll have some milk.”
Marshall nodded before he said to the waiter, "Please get us a cup of warm milk and a cup of latte with
half sugar and no milk."
"You should have some milk too. You'll have a hard time sleeping tonight after drinking coffee."
Stella blurted out and instantly regretted it.
Her relationship with Marshall was not close enough for her to comment on his personal lifestyle.
Keegan would have a cup of coffee in the evening too. Even though he would work more efficiently
after that, he would also have a hard time falling asleep at night.
She was too used to controlling Keegan's diet, so she automatically stopped Marshall from ordering
coffee without any hesitation.
Marshall looked at her, and he was surprised.
Stella realized what she had just said and added, "Didn't you tell me that you got addicted to caffeine,
and you can't sleep at night?" You should try some chewing gums if you want to get rid of the
addiction."
Then, she took out a packet of chewing gum from her bag and handed it to him.
A cosmetician from work gave it to her two days ago at the set.
Marshall chuckled. "I didn't expect you'd remember that."
At that time, there was a Maserati parked beside the road. Keegan sat inside while looking at Marshall
and Stella through the window with a face that could not be any gloomier.
Stella took the documents out of her bag and pushed them toward Marshall. ’This notebook has the
numbers of the former employees of Jewell Group. The documents here are the evidence my mother
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmcollected to prove that Albert and his relatives took bribes and embezzled public funds. And, this is the
divorce settlement they signed seven years ago."
Marshall took them and started going through the documents in a serious manner.
He asked while he was reading, "Do you have a copy of these documents?"
"I took pictures."
"Photocopy everything," Marshall said without lifting his head. "It's better to have another set of
backup."
"Sure. I'll do that when I get back later."
"What's this?" Marshall pushed the notebook toward Stella and asked, "Is it Johnson? I can't really read
it."
Stella went closer to him. "It looks like... Johnston, right? Or, is it Johson?"
Then, the waiter said as if another patron had entered the cafe, "Welcome, sir." "Let's take a picture of
it first. We'll know what it is after we call the number.
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