Lucinda took the glass gracefully and brought it close to her nose.
““Lafite, produced in 1982. It’s a really good wine.”
She smiled and clinked glasses with Susan before bringing it to her lips and drinking it all on one go.
Holden Lank looked at her and said with a smile, “I’m impressed you know so much about wine. And the fact that you can drink so much?
Charming! Please, drink to my toast too.”
Lucinda tilted her head slightly.
“I thought we were here to talk about the casting? Why aren’t we talking about it now?”
One of the men said calmly, “Of course we’re going to talk about it.
But you know the rule, right? We only talk about business after drinking.”
The others echoed their agreement and proposed toasts, all to Lucinda.
Lucinda remained polite throughout and didn’t refuse anyone. Glass after glass, she gulped it down easily.
In the CEO’s office of the Roberts Group.
Flynn knocked on the door and came in. Then, he handed over a document to his boss.
“Boss, our people have done the background check on her three times and we get the same result each time.”
Nathaniel took the document and looked at it with a frown on his face.
Lucinda’s life seemed to be normal. Nothing out of the ordinary.
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The only thing he found suspicious was the fact that only one sentence described her life before she was fifteen years old. All it said was that she lived in that orphanage. There was also no specific story about her life there before she turned fifteen. They didn’t even know when she was sent there.
Before today, Nathaniel would have never thought that his best hackers would one day be unable to find information on someone in this world.
Seeing the look of suspicion on his boss’ face, Flynn said, “We can ask them to keep digging.”
“No, it’s fine.”
Nathaniel closed the file and put it on top of the pile of documents on his table before looking up at Flynn and adding, “She deliberately wiped out her past. It would be a waste of time and resources trying to find something. Her background must have been really complicated.”
He walked to the French window and lit a cigarette, his eyes darkened.
Flynn nodded and opened the schedule on his iPad. Then, he looked at his boss’ back and asked, “Boss, you have a dinner appointment tonight that was programmed a week ago. Will you attend?”