Only Benjamin, who had not spoken all along, seemed smiling when he glanced at the people. He smiled and said, “I think we shall settle our business affairs first in order to finish the investigation and settle Karina’s lawsuit. YS Club is now in the teeth of the storm. Please keep away all your personal grudges and talk about business affairs first! After all, there are still thousands of people waiting for their salary in YS Club! We can’t make them suffer, right? Please throw away all your bad feeling and keep positive. I hope you can take it easy. We have to be considerate and put ourselves into the workers’ shoes. Please be professional!”
These words were spoken with a smile, but they gave a heavy blow to the four people.
Reuben was silent.
Ophelia was slightly ashamed.
Marcel, however, laughed.
Rae admired Benjamin. In her opinion, a person who could be considerate towards others was very impressive. Benjamin was concerned about the living of thousands of people, which reminded her of Raphael who was in prison. No matter how a person behaved, as long as he still possessed goodness in his heart, he was a good person, perhaps he had many flaws, but no one was perfect.
She looked at Benjamin admiringly.
Benjamin cast his gaze over. He looked at Rae and blinked.
Rae immediately looked at somewhere else.
All these things could not escape from Marcel’s sharp gaze. He smiled faintly at Benjamin, “Mr Newman has the feeling of worrying about the country and the people. I admire you!”
“Captain Hopkins has overpraised me, if you are in charge of this case, you will just like me!” Benjamin said with a smile. However, Benjamin looked at Marcel with a hint of playfulness and a deep smile.
Marcel also looked at him. They stared at each other and the angle they pulled their lips was the same!
At that moment, Rae felt a little strange, however, she could not think of what was strange!
Reuben was not a simple guy, of course, he was as displeased as Marcel.
Rae did not care about the roaring waves in their eyes!
Only then did Marcel say, “Mr. James, well, I’ll just ask it directly! Mr. James had met Karina in the afternoon during the swimming party. You had a forty-three minutes meeting with her alone. The location was Mr. James’ condominium in JY Road. May I ask what you talked about during the forty-three minutes?”
Reuben narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard this. He looked sharply at Marcel.
Rae was also shocked, it seemed that Marcel had come prepared and had already gotten quite a lot of information. That was why he asked so righteously, directly telling Reuben that he had the time and place of their meeting. Then, it was Reuben’s turn to speak!
Immediately, Reuben glared at Ophelia.
Ophelia shrugged her shoulders and said, “Don’t look at me, I’m not the one who said it!”
However, Reuben snorted, seemingly unconvinced.
Ophelia stopped explaining and looked at the window.
Stinky man, why did he treat her unjustly? She was not someone who loved to betray people!
Even if the other party was a police officer, as long as she did not want to, she would not say a word even if the gun was raised above her head.
However, Reuben did not believe her apparently. What made Ophelia sad was that she had been with Reuben for five years but he did not know her well!
It was also true that they did not seem to do anything else together other than settling their needs. After returning to China, she insisted on coming to YS Club. She got in entirely on her own by an interview! Reuben did not interfere from beginning to end! The only thing he had helped her was when she was in the police station because of Karina’s case and he asked a lawyer to bring her out. Other than that, he bought her a house and a car and gave her a certain amount of pocket money every month, and nothing else!
How could he understand her?
Rae looked at Ophelia at this moment.
Ophelia turned her head and her gaze met with Rae’s. She smiled at Ophelia and blinked her eyes as a gesture of comfort.
Ophelia smiled at her too. They had a tacit understanding.
Reuben kept quiet.
At this time, Marcel added, “Does Mr. James have a bad memory? Do you still need to think about such things before answering?”
Unexpectedly, Reuben smiled faintly, hummed and said, “This is my privacy. I can only tell you that her reaction was normal that afternoon. We were discussing public affairs and personal matters, nothing to do with the case! About the rest, I can’t tell you in detail!”
Marcel, however, smiled contemptuously and asked rhetorically, “May I ask how Mr. James judges that Karina’s reaction was normal at that time?”
Reuben looked at his eyes and smiled faintly. He answered Marcel methodically, “At that time when we were talking, her thoughts were clear, her speech was not too fast or too slow, she also smiled frankly, unlike what you are doing now. Your smile is freaking scary!”
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...