“President Lane, it’s not good, something has happened in the villa area developed in the south of the city.” An incomparably anxious voice came from the other end of the phone.
Baird Lane’s brow furrowed hard, “What happened?”
“The manager in charge of the villa area construction worker Land misappropriated the material payment, and then bought a batch of foam building materials, and now most of the villas have collapsed, and a lot of buyers have surrounded the construction site to ask for a claim.”
“What did you say?” Baird Lane’s face suddenly grimaced to the extreme, and the cold air around him dropped the temperature in the car.
Christine White shivered and looked at him worriedly, curious as to what had happened to make him react so badly.
“Did you get that manager?” Baird Lane asked with a death grip on his cell phone.
The person on the other end of the phone replied back, “No, he has run away, but we called the police. Will get the man back as soon as possible.”
“I know, you stabilize those buyers, I’m on my way there now.” Baird Lane hung up the phone.
Gates brought the car to a stop and twisted his head to look in the back seat, “President Lane, what’s going on?”
The question just happened to be the same one Christine White was going to ask, she clenched her hands, “Yeah Baird, is something big going on?”
Baird Lane took a deep breath, barely suppressing the monstrous anger in his heart, and coldly replied back, “There was a collapse matter in the newly developed villa area in the south of the city.”
“What?” Gates dropped his glasses at the news and it took several seconds for him to respond, “President Lane, how could this happen?”
The main industry of The Lane Family Group is real estate, and every residence, office building and villa developed over the decades has been developed without any mishap.
How come now it’s …
“Could there be a problem with the building materials?” Gates quickly thought of the key point.
Baird Lane nodded his head, “That’s right, the development manager in charge of that villa area, after embezzling the money for the building materials, bought a batch of inferior materials and ran away, and now that there’s something wrong with the construction site, a lot of buyers are in an uproar.”
“Shit!” Gates sledgehammered the steering wheel in exasperation.
Baird Lane glanced at him and didn’t blame him for his rudeness, instead he gave his gaze to Christine White, “Get out of the car and call Uncle Luise to come pick you up, I’m going to check out the construction site.”
“I’ll go just the same.” Christine White said.
Baird Lane refused without thinking, “No, you can’t go.”
“Why?” Christine White asked.
Gates answered for Baird Lane, “Ma’am, President Lane is worried about your safety yet, since the old days the people who ask for claims are very emotional and can strike if they are not careful, so for safety’s sake, you should not go.”
“Yes?” Christine White looked at Baird Lane.
Baird Lane hmmm’d, “Gates is right, you have Uncle Luise come and get you.”
“I know, then take care of yourself, don’t get hurt.” Christine White uneasily admonished and pushed the door to get out of the car.
She stood on the curb and waved at the car’s Baird Lane, not putting her hand down until she watched the car move away, then looked around for a bus stop or subway station.
She’s not bothering to ask Uncle Luise to come and get it.
It would take at least an hour or more for Uncle Luise to come over, and now that it’s so cold, she doesn’t want to stand on the side of the road and freeze, so she’d better take her own car and go back faster.
With that in mind, Christine White headed for the nearest subway station.
When she arrived at the station, she picked a random ticket machine and got in line ready to buy a ticket.
The subway station was crowded, the line was long, and Christine White was at the very back of the line.
After standing in line for a while, she probed slightly to look at the front of the line to see how many more people were left before it was her turn, only to have her eyes caught by a man in front of her in line.
“Huh?” She couldn’t help but let out a small gasp before surreptitiously sizing up the man in front of her.
The man was very tall, wearing a straight suit, his hair was also waxed, looking exquisite and stylish, although the front of the man could not be seen, but just by looking at his back as well as the noble temperament that flowed out from his body, this man was definitely not an ordinary person either.
But one wonders how such a person, who by definition travels with a chauffeur, could come to the subway by himself.
The question was filtered out of Christine White’s mind after it swam around in her head, she was curious but didn’t have a need to know necessarily so she stopped thinking about it after a little while and put her head back down to look at her phone.
Soon, finally, it was almost Christine White’s turn to buy a ticket.
She put away her cell phone and waited quietly, after a few minutes of waiting, the man in front of her hadn’t bought a ticket yet, she got a little impatient and reached out, only to find that he was actually standing in front of the ticketing machine, not moving at all, with absolutely no intention of buying a ticket.
“Sir.” Christine White couldn’t help herself and poked the man gently before politely reminding him, “Can you hurry up? There are people waiting in the back.”
The man turned his head, revealing a very handsome face.
He looked at Christine White, who had just spoken, and a sudden flash of shock appeared in his amber pupils, but it quickly disappeared, and then a faint apology appeared on his face, “I’m very sorry for the delay, it’s really that I’m not very good with this kind of machine.”
“Eh?” Christine White was first awed by his face and then surprised by his words, “Not very good with it?”
Is there anyone left who can’t use a ticket machine?
“Yes.” The man nodded slightly.
Christine White sighed, then raised a faint smile, “In that case, where are you going then sir, I’ll show you how to buy it.”
“Thanks a lot then.” The man smiled gratefully.
Christine White stepped forward and stood beside him and tapped the ticket machine, and after he said his address, she tapped into the ticket screen for that address, selected a single Land ticket, and reminded him to put in his coins.
But the man unexpectedly pulled out a euro, which made Christine White’s mouth twitch as she rushed to stop it.
“What’s wrong?” The man was still a little confused.
Christine White cried and laughed as she explained, “Your money isn’t exchanged, you can’t use it here, you don’t have any other money?”
The man shook his head.
Christine White pursed her lips breathlessly, “Never mind, sir, why don’t you wait on the side, I’ll get it for you.”
When she finished, she took out her money and bought the ticket, then bought another one for herself.
After buying them, she walked outside the line with two tickets, gave the man’s one to him, and was about to check the tickets to board the train.
Instead, the man suddenly called out to her, “Please wait.”
“Is there anything else, sir?” Christine White stopped in her tracks.
The man walked up to her, “Thank you very much for your help this time, may I ask what your name is?”
“My last name is White,” Christine White spoke up with a smile but no intention of giving her full name.
The man didn’t get angry either, and with his palm pressed down at the spot where his heart would be, he introduced himself gently, “Hello Ms. White, my name is Bess Camp, and I’ve just returned from overseas.”
“Time? Overseas?” Christine White opened her mouth in shock as she listened to the words and thought of something, “Overseas The Camp Family?”
The man raised an eyebrow, “Ms. White you know about The Camp Family overseas?”
He pressed back his inner surprise, his eyes sizing up Christine White without a trace.
He had thought that she was just a hot, ordinary woman, but he didn’t realize that she actually knew about The Camp Family overseas.
Although The Camp Family is powerful, it has always kept a low profile and is not well known overseas, even fewer people know about it in China, and ordinary people are even more unlikely to have heard of it, so how did she know about it?
“Yes.” Christine White nodded, “I heard my husband say that.”
More than Bess Camp’s skepticism, she was unsettled in her mind at the moment, it was only yesterday that Baird Lane had mentioned to her that she should keep an eye out for The Camp Family when it was time for the Alliance meeting, and she hadn’t expected that she’d meet someone from The Camp Family today.
What kind of destiny is this?