At this moment, Lindsey withdrew her hand and pressed the document at her elbow. She then reached out and rested her head on her chin. She slowly smiled with a glint in her eyes. "Mr. Jenner, there’s no rush."
Alfred Jenner slowly withdrew his hand and touched his nose. "Ms. Juhl, what do you mean by that?"
The woman across the table had one hand on her cheek and her eyes were as soulful as a young girl's as she blinked. "Mr. Jenner, I have something I want to ask you about."
Suddenly, Alfred felt a bad premonition in his heart.
As expected, Lindsey folded her arms and looked at him. "Tell me everything you know about Mr. Cooper and this project is yours." As she spoke, Lindsey's slender fingers tapped on the document.
Alfred's expression froze, but he quickly regained composure and snorted, trying to reply perfunctorily. “Ms. Juhl, didn't I already tell you everything when you asked me last time? I don’t have anything to hide about this, don’t you think? Wait, Ms. Juhl! Don’t…”
His slick tone changed abruptly when he saw that Lindsey was packing up her things to leave. He hurriedly shouted to stop her.
Lindsey stood up and looked down at Alfred. She held the document and shook it, then said in a cold voice, "Mr. Jenner, I hope this time, you’ll tell me everything."
Alfred unconsciously shrank back under her gaze that seemed to see through everything.
At this time, the waiter brought up their coffee. Lindsey added a few cubes of sugar into her cup and gently stirred the dark brown liquid with the teaspoon.
She did not seem to be in a hurry at all and was waiting leisurely for Alfred to speak.
"Actually..." Alfred sighed and looked a little helpless. "I don’t know much more than you, Ms. Juhl. Besides what I told you, I’ve inquired about him in private, but it’s not particularly by honest means, which is why I didn’t tell you."
He sounded like he was doing her a favor. Lindsey looked at him with a seeming smile and gestured for him to continue while she listened.
"Mr. Cooper..." Alfred lowered his voice and looked around a few times like he was afraid of being heard by others. "I heard people say that he was hospitalized for a very long time before."
Lindsey's eyes flickered.
Alfred saw that Lindsey was startled and deliberately lowered his voice like he was telling some kind of horror story. He even looked mysterious as he continued, "I heard he kept doing plastic surgery until his face was messed up. When he was a teenager, he’s quite a handsome young man, but he wanted a trendy face, so he did plastic surgery and got disfigured. He couldn't accept his face, so he could only wrap it up tightly. "
After that, Alfred even nodded at Lindsey seriously.
Lindsey stirred the coffee in front of her with the small silver spoon and looked at Alfred. "Is that it?"
"That’s all." Alfred leaned back in his chair and got into a more comfortable position. “That’s all I found out about him. Don’t you think it’s a waste that such a young man would go for plastic surgery?”
Alfred was frustrated and could not stand this kind of man who would do plastic surgery for nothing. He just spent several minutes talking about plastic surgery and finally stopped talking.
"To be honest with you..." Alfred looked sincere. “I’m just a businessman, so all I care about is profit. It’s not appropriate for me to inquire about his life story.”
Lindsey nodded along with him and looked like she agreed. “Mm...it is indeed inappropriate.”
After she said that, she stopped stirring her coffee and elegantly placed the small silver spoon in the tray. She then pushed the document that had been pressed under her elbow in front of Alfred.
The sender was Lindsey Juhl and the message read, "Mr. Jenner, honesty is the basis of good cooperation. Looking forward to working together!"
After all, Alfred felt guilty, so he did not dare to reply to her message. He looked around and his gaze suddenly stopped not far away.
After a moment of silence, Alfred still walked over to the car.
The man beside him did not speak and only nodded very faintly.
Alfred loosened his tie and felt more comfortable. He then tapped on his phone screen and handed it to the man. "But Ms. Juhl doesn't seem to believe what I said."
The man beside him looked at the message on the phone and did not speak for a long time.
Alfred was a talkative man and could not keep his mouth shut. He got over the frustration of being played and thought of something.
He pretended to say casually, "Oh right, Ms. Juhl said that she had a date later. I thought it was with you, but I guess it isn’t?"
After he said that, he felt that the temperature in the car had dropped several degrees.
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