The couple's voices traveled through the earphone, their conversation taking Nora by surprise.
Through their argument, she slowly learned the truth of what had happened back then.
She was utterly stunned.
One could say that she had experienced a lot over the years, but even so, she never would have expected a villain like Jill to really exist in this world!
Her jaw tensed up and her brows locked together into a tight frown.
Lily came back at this point.
A guest room had been prepared for Lily all this time. Every once in a while, she would come back, take a day off, and rest. After all, she was terribly busy at the moment. Not only did she have to take care of Old Maddy, but she also had to take care of Quentin.
She stretched and entered the house. After stepping into the house, she looked at Nora and said, "Anti, long time no see."
Nora stared at her. Suddenly, she pulled off her earphone, coughed, and asked "Lily, are you busy?"
Lily:"??"
She slowly looked at Nora and then, the corners of her lips spasmed. She said, "Boss, you must be the most exploitative capitalist in the whole country."
She really was back just to rest for a day!
On top of that, this was the only day she had come back this whole week.
Nora, however, got onto her feet. She took out the hair that she had pre-packed—needless to say, she had plucked those strands of hair off Jill's head when she collided with her just now. The hair follicles were still attached.
Lily:"!!!"
The corners of her lips spasmed, and she felt like she was close to getting accustomed to it by now. She asked, "Whose DNA are you going to check this time?"
"Jill and Tanya's," replied Nora.
"... Got it."
They had done DNA tests for Tanya quite a few times by then. Lily already had records of her data, so she didn't need any more samples. She took the samples from Nora and headed to the door dejectedly. As she did, she said, "Boss, you really have to give me a pay raise."
After watching Lily leave, Nora turned and went upstairs.
Joel came back at dinnertime in the evening. With a big frown on his face, he looked at Tanya and said, "I've gotten someone to ask around. Dad didn't do anything serious, so he will probably be out after two or three years of jail at most..."
Tanya breathed a sigh of relief.
Two to three years of jail for a bad man really wasn't that long.
Tanya had actually been worried that Karl would be imprisoned for life. She looked at Joel and said, "If you can pass him a message, tell him that I will wait for him outside, and will provide for him in his old age."
Joel nodded.
Nora, who was seated at the side, listened to them, feeling that Joel was indeed rather capable.
The special department's matters were handled with a very high level of confidentiality. On top of that, Morris was a tough nut to crack, no matter what kind of attitude one took with him. It was extremely difficult for one to find out what was going on within the department.
Yet Joel had found out after running here and there for an afternoon.
This showed that the special department wasn't entirely impenetrable.
Next to them, Warren and Maureen were eating with their heads down. Perhaps because of Karl's incident in the afternoon, the couple—who were usually the ones livening up the atmosphere at home—didn't speak.
But if one were to look at them closely, they would see that Maureen had a furious look on her face while Warren was smiling ingratiatingly at her. Maureen, however, had turned away and was ignoring him.
Nora was preoccupied with thoughts of Jill and Tanya's DNA test because she wanted to verify the truth of what they had said in the car, so she didn't notice that there was something wrong with the couple.
After dinner, Joel suddenly looked at Tanya and said, "When I was getting someone to ask around about Dad
today, I actually met him."
Tanya was taken aback.
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