Ex-husband’s Regret

"I can handle it."

Jane turned to reassure Yasmin. "It's really nothing. Please don't tell Charlotte, I'm begging you, Ms. Jackson."

"Alright." Since Jane didn't want any interference, Yasmin decided not to press further. "You go ahead and take care of things."

Jane returned to Zachary's side, just as the floor manager said, "Mr. Collins, my superior will take a little longer to arrive. I'll take you to the lounge upstairs for some tea and snacks while we wait." Zachary waved his hand dismissively. "Tell him to hurry up."

The floor manager didn't dare to provoke him and made another call in front of Zachary.

Jane quietly asked Zachary, "Shouldn't we check the surveillance footage first?"Material © NôvelDrama.Org.

Zachary replied, "Only the owner of the hotel have authorization to some things."

Jane understood.

Footage accessible to everyone likely wouldn't reveal much.

They needed to look at backups stored in the cloud or hidden permissions.

Michael watched them from behind, puzzled about how these two could still work together so seamlessly.

Moreover, aside from their initial confusion, they showed no signs of panic.

Their calmness made him feel that they weren't ordinary people.

Their silent understanding even swayed him internally

Just then, Nina walked over.

"Zachary..."

Zachary glanced sideways. "What are you doing here?"

Nina fidgeted with her hands, her long hair partially hiding her pale, delicate face.

She wore a white dress, and her submissive demeanor stirred a man's protective instincts.

"I wanted to see if there was anything I could help with

"I was startled earlier, so I didn't get my mind around things. Now that I think about it, some thing's definitely off."

Jane smirked inwardly, wondering how tiring it must be to keep up the act.

Zachary's handsome face showed no change in emotion, his voice remaining flat. "It was indeed wrong."

Unless he was bewitched, he wouldn't engage with Nina, even if he sought someone to replace Jane or a casual fling.

After such a youthful mistake, he couldn't allow himself to repeat it.

Getting involved with her would be more troublesome than dealing with a woman working as an escort.

"Mr. Collins." The hotel owner rushed over, sweating profusely. "Sorry for keeping you waiting."

Zachary didn't engage in polite chit-chat, he glanced at the hands the owner offered but didn't shake them.

He said, "Let's head to the surveillance room."

The group made their way to the surveillance room.

Zachary instructed the hotel owner to pull up the footage from around eleven last night.

However, the surveillance staff said, "There's nothing."

The hotel owner panicked. "How can there be nothing? Isn't this footage supposed to be saved for thirty days? It's linked to my computer and automatically backs up!"

The staff glanced at Zachary and the others, then leaned closer to whisper to the owner.

The hotel owner grew even more anxious, pushing him aside and raising his voice. "Just say it!"

Since the owner didn't hide the truth, the staff spoke directly. "Our hotel's regular client, that owner of a coal mine who always brings different women, had his wife show up unexpectedly yesterday. To keep things from getting out, he smashed the hard drive and tossed it into the water. Now it's completely unusable. Not only is yesterday's footage gone, but all the footage from the past month.'

The hotel owner was in a cold sweat, he couldn't afford to offend any big shots in Jeswood with his small/

business.

"It's alright, Mr. Collins, don't get worked up, I still have backups."

"Sir, to protect customer information, the surveillance is set with an automatic deletion protocol. If the hard drive is damaged, all data in the cloud gets deleted. And it's permanently deleted, unrecoverable."

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