Zach responded and started the car.
The moment the car drove away, he darted a glance at Sydney and Luke, sighing.
He really did not know what President Flint was thinking when he divorced Ms. Raines for Ms. Madden.
Only now that they were divorced did President Flint start paying more attention to Ms. Raines, and he would become unhappy when he saw Ms. Raines being intimate with her boyfriend. If he had known that this would happen, why did he choose to divorce her?
The departure of the MPV did not attract Sydney and Luke's attention.
Sydney looked at Luke's hand. "Didn't you say I had something on my head? What was it?"
"Just a piece of lint. It probably came from your clothes. I already threw it away." Luke waved his hand.
Sydney nodded without suspecting him. "Well, I'll head in now. You should head back early."
"Okay," Luke responded.
Then, Sydney turned and left.
Luke stood in the same spot and saw her off. When her figure disappeared into the elevator, he did not leave. Instead, he raised his head to look upstairs.
Only when he saw the light turn on in a window on a certain floor did he smile, lift his feet that had turned numb from standing so long, and walk away.
The next day, Sydney arrived at Skylight and walked into her office. Before she could even sit down, Sophie came in with an anxious look on her face. "Bad news, President Raines."
"What happened?" Sydney took off the bag on her shoulder.
Sophie also did not know how to explain it and simply handed her the tablet. "See for yourself, President Raines."
Sydney took the tablet skeptically and lowered her head to watch it.
The tablet was playing a video of a disturbance. The video was a little shaky, and she could tell that it was shot from a phone, but it was still very clear.
Sydney saw an old woman and a middle-aged man sitting on the ground, crying and cursing. Their curses were vulgar, crude, and extremely unpleasant to hear.
They were surrounded by a group of site workers pointing at them.
The video was not long, so it did not take long for Sydney to watch the entire video. Her expression was ugly. "This is our construction site, isn't it?"
"Yes." Sophie nodded.
"Why are these two people causing trouble at our construction site?" Sydney pointed at the old lady and middle-aged woman in the video with her brows furrowed.
Sophie sighed. "The foreman sent us the video.
Apparently, these two women claimed our excavator threw clods of earth at them and killed their husband and son.”
"What?" Sydney was stunned. "Killed their husband and son?"
"That was what the two women said. They said that their husband and son were hit when they passed by at night, and they died on the spot," Sophie responded.
Sydney laughed in anger. "At night? The site isn't even open at night. Who would be using the excavator?
Besides, the entire site is enclosed, and the excavator is operating in the center of the land. How could their husband and son have gotten in? Or are they saying that the clods of earth were thrown from hundreds of feet away?"
It was obviously a false accusation!
Furthermore, the construction team was sent by the relevant departments. If someone was really killed, the departments would definitely handle it. Two women would not have been able to go to the scene and cause trouble.
Sophie also found it ridiculous. "Those two women are now making a scene there and clamoring for compensation."
"How much?" Sydney knew that the incident was fake, so she was no longer worried. She picked up her coffee and sipped it before asking calmly.
"750 thousand dollars." Sophie raised her fingers." They said that if we don't pay, they'll go online to make a fuss and escalate it until we can't build the factory."
"750 thousand dollars. That's daylight robbery." Sydney sneered. "In fact, I don’t think they want the money. Their real purpose is to stop us from building the factory."
750 thousand dollars? Only a fool would pay that much.
"That can't be." Sophie was slightly incredulous." They're just two women. Why are they stopping us from building the factory?"
"They're not the ones who are stopping us. It's the people behind them." Sydney narrowed her eyes.
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