With one hand pressing on her heart, she kept fanning her face with the other hand, trying to lower the temperature on her face.
Jared looked at Amber who was acting strangely and asked, “What’s the matter with you?”
“No… It’s nothing…” Amber replied hesitantly, and quickly lowered her head, not daring to look at him.
God, what happened to her?
Why did her heart beat so fast?
Why was her face so hot?
Calm down now!
He wasn’t really calling her “baby”; he was just repeating what Cole called her. Why did she behave so abnormally?
Cole often called her by the nickname “baby”. And she didn’t feel nervous or had any reaction. But why did she behave like this when Jared called her “baby”?
Jared could obviously tell that Amber wasn’t telling the truth. He slightly narrowed his eyes and stared at her, as if he was trying to see through her.
After a while, he seemed to understand something. A glint of light shed out from his eyes. He then slightly leaned forward, got closer to her and said with a gentle and low voice, “You haven’t answered my question just now. Is Cole still calling you baby? Um?”
This word “baby” was even more affectionate.
With the extremely provocative “Um” at the end, Amber gasped sharply.
“You… You stay away from me!” She stood up abruptly, took a few steps forward, distanced herself from him, and turned her back to him, refusing to turn around in any circumstances.
Looking at her red ears, Jared could guess what her face looked like at the moment.
Her face must be as red as the ears.
Sure enough, her abnormality was caused by what he just said.
Jared propped his head up, with a teasing smile on the corner of his mouth, “Don’t let him call you by that word in the future.”
“Why?” Amber rubbed her face, took a deep breath, managed to calm down the nervousness in her heart, and turned around.
Jared looked at her, “Because I don’t like it.”
Amber pursed her lips, “It’s your own business that you don’t like it. But you can’t force others to do as you please.”
“Because this nickname is too intimate, you are not lovers. It is not appropriate for him to call you so. The most important thing is that I will be jealous. I have endured for Cole to call you ‘baby’ for a long time, and I don’t want to endure it anymore. Amber, I hope I’m the only one who can call you by the name ‘baby’.” He looked at her with a serious face.
Amber’s eyes shed, “Don’t you think you’re too overbearing?”
“No, I’m just doing what I think is right.” Jared’s expression softened.
Amber’s red lips pursed as if she wanted to say something. But just as she was about to speak out, the door of the office was pushed open, and Ben walked in with aptop.
After he came in, he saw Amber standing there while Jared sitting alongside. The atmosphere was obviously a bit awkward. He stopped rushing inside immediately, and then he looked at Jared with a nervous expression, “Well… Not the right time? Should I go?”
Judging from the expression of Mr. Farrell and Ms. Reed, it seemed like something had just happened between them.
And when he came in abruptly… Did he interrupt them?
Thinking of this, Ben suddenly felt like he was going to die.Belongs to (N)?vel/Drama.Org.
Sure enough, looking at Jared’s cold face, Ben’s mouth twitched. He kept on apologizing in his heart.
Sorry, Mr. Farrell. This won’t happen next time!
“The reason why youe here at this time, is that you’ve finished checking the surveince recording?” Jared rubbed his temples and asked.
Amber heard the word “surveince” and sat down quickly.
Ben nodded, “Yes, I’ve finished checking it. Makenna drove near ourpany at two o’clock in the afternoon, and she has been there since then and never left. This is the surveince footage where Makenna showed up.”
With that saying, he put theptop in front of Amber and Jared. Then he opened the file to show them.
The first thing Amber saw was her own red Mercedes-Benz entering the picture. Then the car stopped; she got off and entered the Farrell Group.
The moment after she entered the building, a ck car appeared on the opposite side of the road where she parked her car.
Ben pointed at the car, “This is the car Makenna drives!”
“Yes, it is!” Amber’s expression changed greatly in surprise, and her palms clenched suddenly.
Jared looked at her, “What? You are familiar with this car?”
Amber shook her head but nodded, “I’m not familiar with this car, but with this license te.”
“License te?” Jared narrowed his eyes, and stared at the license te of the car that Makenna was driving.
The surveince footage was clear enough for Jared to see exactly the te number.
Thest three figures were 666
It fitted Makenna quite well.
“In the morning, when Cole and I drove to Goldstone, there was a car behind us that kept following us. This is the car. Because the te number is quite special, so I remember it very well. But when Cole and I were going to call the police, the car left. After that, we thought that the car just happened to drive on the same road as we did. For safety’s sake, when I got to Goldstone, I asked the secretary to investigate the owner of the license te.”
“What about the results?” Jared asked with a dark expression.
Amber bit her lip, “It turns out that the owner of this license te is just an ordinary citizen, so I let my guard down. But I didn’t expect that the owner of this license te is actually Makenna Gardner!”
When Makenna drove towards her and Jared, she just focused on running away with Jared and did not pay attention to the license tes.
That’s why they didn’t realized that the car driven by Makenna was actually the one following her in the morning.
“That makes no sense. If the owner of the car is Makenna, it’s impossible for the secretary of Ms. Reed to dig out that it is an ordinary citizen.” Ben expressed his doubts, “There’s hardly any possibility that your secretary, was working for Makenna, right?”
“Impossible.” Amber immediately denied, “She Dawson isn’t on Makenna’s side.”
“It is also possible that there is a problem with the license te itself. You can ask your men to check whether the license te belongs to Makenna or the citizen.” Jared said.
Ben nodded, “Yes!”
He took out his cell phone, made a call and went out.
Amber and Jared continue to watch the surveince recording afterwards.
The following recording was boring. They didn’t see anyone get out of the car but only passing vehicles and pedestrians.
It wasn’t until two hourster that she and Jared appeared on the side of the road, and Makenna’s car moved.
Then Makenna was crashing into them and they dodged away.
After watching the surveince, Jared crossed his fingers, put them on his knee, and lowered his eyelids, pondering.
Amber took a deep breath and said nothing.
The office gradually fell into silence.
About a few minutester, Ben came back from the phone call and stood in front of the two of them, “Mr. Farrell, I now have the result of the investigation. The owner of the license te, just like what Ms. Reed’s secretary found out, is an ordinary citizen.”
“In other words, the license te of Makenna’s car is fake?” Jared sneered with the corner of his mouth.
Ben nodded, “Yes, the license te should be a random fake made by Makenna. Otherwise, she will be stopped if she drives on the road without a license te. In that case, she will not be able to tail Ms. Reed.”
“I see.” Jared nodded. “What I want you to do next, is to investigate everything about the Trenton Gardner couple and the Mendez family. I want to know whether they are helping Makenna behind the scenes.”
Now, although the police did not make public the information that Makenna was still alive, they still contacted the Gardner family.
The Gardner family was heartbroken because of Makenna’s suicide by jumping off the building, so it was impossible for the police to not notify them.
So, it’s possible that the Gardner family, who knew that Makenna was still alive, would help her secretly.