The Indifferent Ex-Husband: Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate novel Chapter 471

"I'm on it right away."

After getting the nod from Brandon, Kent spun on his heel and left the office, grabbing his phone to call up the chief engineer to get the lowdown.

The chief engineer wasn't hip to the whole scoop between Sophia, Brandon, and the entire Starlight Group. In his eyes, hitting a snag during construction and bringing in the designer to brainstorm solutions was no biggie—not something to make a mountain out of a molehill over. He figured he had the authority to make the call, so he didn't make a point to fill Kent in on the deets.

Now, seeing Kent ringing him up specifically about this, he was taken aback for a sec but spilled the beans to Kent anyway, detailing the situation and what's next on the agenda, assuring everything was under control and sounding hunky-dory.

Kent felt a tad relieved, hung up the call, and went to catch Brandon up on what was happening.

But Brandon's brows did a little dance of concern. "That place ain't the deep sea—why the heck can't we hammer in the piles for the main hall's pillars? Couldn't the survey team pin down the reason?"

Kent nodded, "Scouted the site twice, everything checked out normal. The construction crew's gotten a bit superstitious, thinking maybe they've stumbled on something spooky. But I mean, come on, who buys into that hocus-pocus, right? I'm leaning towards it being a technical snafu with the crew or some issue with the materials. I'll get someone on the case to dig a bit deeper."

Brandon gave a nod of approval, "Get to the bottom of it, safety ain't something we can skimp on."

Kent affirmed, "Got it."

Worried about the project hitting the skids, Kent dropped what he was doing and secretly dispatched folks to snoop around the Zenithan-style resort project's construction team and materials.

Kent himself made a beeline for the construction site, spending a couple of days there.

From the look-see and the probing, the crew seemed on the up and up. They'd been in cahoots with the Starlight Group for years, had several projects under their belt with clean bills of health from quality control.

The workers were seasoned pros with solid skills and craft, and the team's rep for honesty and integrity was sterling in the industry.

No issues with the building materials either—the supply chain was tied to a subsidiary of the Starlight Group, so no chance of bait-and-switch or cutting corners there.

The site was still all systems go, and the completed parts of the project were without a blemish.

The findings let Kent breathe easier. For now, the only pickle was the northwest pillar of the main hall still resisting the pile-driving, but they'd already penciled in another go at it, just waiting for the geomancer to give the thumbs up for an auspicious day to give it another whirl.

Sophia was also keeping tabs on the Zenithan-style resort project.

Though she wasn't on-site, the main hall's pillar-pounding predicament was tied to the project's progress, so she wasn't exactly sitting pretty about it, touching base with Tomas now and then for the latest.

Another wrinkle was Nell, supposedly long gone.