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Chapter 27\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Chapter 27\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carmen dialed a number and put it on speaker so Natalie could hear the other person too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCarmen, I was just about to call you,\u201d her friend said. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten the list and emailed it to you. As for the details, I\u2019ve taken some pictures and sent them to your email too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDidn\u2019t you say only managers at your mall are allowed to access purchase records that go back more than a month?\u201d asked Carmen curiously.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She had urged her friend repeatedly to help get the purchase records as soon as possible, but there was no news for a long\u00a0<\/p>\n
time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy manager fell sick yesterday. Coincidentally, my supervisor\u2019s wife went into labor. I was asked to take care of the performance reports, so he gave me the password to the back-end system.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was how I managed to find what you were looking for. You two are really lucky. I never would\u2019ve gotten it if this didn\u2019t happen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you so much. I\u2019ll treat you to a grand meal when you\u2019re back in the country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After hanging up, Carmen checked her email. Her friend had sent an attachment with several photos of purchase records. Some were from a year ago, while the latest was from a week ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Natalie did a quick calculation. With the hotel expenses from Rowan\u2019s and Imogen\u2019s business trips, the total came to at least 500 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNatalie, with all this evidence, you can definitely make Rowan compensate you.\u201d Carmen held Natalie\u2019s hand, looking rather\u00a0<\/p>\n
excited.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Natalie shook her head. \u201cThat\u2019s not enough. Rowan\u2019s the kind of person who holds grudges and retaliates over everything. He might be able to give me money, but that might not be the case for Sarah. I\u2019m not confident enough that he\u2019ll give me Sarah\u2019s custody.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She wouldn\u2019t allow herself to relax as long as she didn\u2019t have custody of Sarah.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, what should we do now?\u201d Carmen had never been married. There wasn\u2019t much she could do to help Natalie when it came to matters like these.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, Carmen could let Natalie stay comfortably at her place for the time being. The apartment she bought was a two- bedroom unit, and Natalie didn\u2019t have to pay rent. And as long as there was food, Natalie would never go hungry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Later that day, Natalie met up with Jasper and handed him all the evidence for review. He felt about 80% confident that they could win, so he decided to file a lawsuit against Rowan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When it was close to noon, Natalie walked past a bakery and bought two buns and a carton of milk. She sat on a bench outside and made a quiet meal out of the food she had bought.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Suddenly, a slender shadow cast over her, making her look up instinctively. The moment she realized who it was, she choked on her food and started coughing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you all right?\u201d Lucian patted her back and handed her a handkerchief.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Milk had splashed across her face. Thinking she looked extremely disheveled, she took the handkerchief and roughly wiped her face. \u201cWhy are you here, Lucian?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lucian pointed at the office building beside them, saying, \u201cMy business meeting just ended. I saw you the moment I got out.\u201d \u201cOh. What a coincidence,\u201d Natalie commented. She couldn\u2019t remember the last time she had buns as her main meal. And of all days, a family member happened to see her eating it outside. The timing couldn\u2019t be worse. \u201cWhy are you only having this for lunch?\u201d Lucian stared at the half-eaten bun in her hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Chapter 27\u00a0 1\/1\u00a0 Chapter 27\u00a0 Carmen dialed a number and put it on speaker so Natalie could hear the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorced-upgraded-and-married-rich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}