The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 22

After returning to her room, Mango sent a message directly to Nathan Ye.

"Mr. Ye, pardon me for resigning on such short notice. I may be a little unfit with the environment of Ocean City, so I have already applied to be transferred back to the headquarter office. I'm sure a new designer will replace me for future co-op. It happens that Miss Cho's public apology indicates that I am a bit difficult to deal with, so you can blame me for this personnel change. Best wishes. Katherine."

After pressed the send button, Mango turned off her mobile phone and took a nap, leaning against the bed.

Nathan was a little stunned when he received the text message.

This was his personal phone number, even Macy Cho did not know. This phone number had been off public use since his wife died five years ago. He kept the number just in the faith that she would return, or more for memorial purpose. So far, except for his assistant Thomas, only the dead Mango had this number.

Now this Katherine lady actually sent a text message to his private number. There was no chance that Thomas dare not giving the boss's private number to Katherine, who is almost a stranger. That left only one possible answer: Katherine was Mango Shen, his wife! Coming to this conclusion made Nathan's mood swinging.

With obvious evidences and the Ye's intelligence, he could have already come to this conclusion. The reason he didn't, was just this woman brought up a lot of old memories, and Nathan's suspicious nature. Plus, he failed countless times to find her in the past five years, maybe he had given up hope deep inside.

Now that a new hope raised. Without one second wasted, Nathan called Thomas Song.

"How's the background check on Katherine?"

Thomas Song, the miserable assistant to the most powerful man in Ocean City, was at the time slept over his laptop in the office. With all the online grinding and offline filed checking, he was flooded with files and information and was planning to sleep off the weekend before submitting a final report. But when Nathan's phone came, Thomas was hammered back to consciousness, like being electrified.

So did his fake British accent. "Song at your service, sire... master... urn... Mister Ye. Pulled all my strings. Both official and off the book. Katherine stayed in the States forever, it seems. Bank, tax, bills, all her record checks. I even investigated her associates back in school. Katherine is a real person with a real identity."

Thomas's nervousness wasn't new to Nathan but did make him impatient.

"Is there any empty period of time? For example, she has been abroad for a while, or is there an accident?"

Hearing Nathan's question, Thomas was a little confused.