Although Ehren was ready for an open and honest chat today, he did not expect Hestia to be this rude and went for the most crucial question directly.
"What’s wrong?" Hestia met Ehren’s gaze and raised an eyebrow. "Can’t I ask this question?"
Ehren shook his head a little irritably. "The answer to this question is very long and complicated, so give me some time to sort things out... The current decline that the Sulzbachs are going through all branches from this matter. Do you know about the hallucinogenic drug case that Benjamin Lane and Uncle Idris investigated together back in the day?"
"The hallucinogenic drug case?"
After reiterating what Ehren just said, Hestia paused for a short moment and then shook her head. "I haven’t heard of it, and it hasn’t been mentioned in the information that I found... Is this matter important?”
"Yes, the tragedies faced by the Sulzbachs and the Tuckers all stem from this case." Ehren’s voice deepened.
Hestia subconsciously gazed at Nathaniel, but his face looked expressionless as if the Tuckers that Ehren brought up had nothing to do with him.
Hestia nodded. "Then let’s start with this case. Besides, you definitely didn’t come here to answer my questions."
Glancing languidly at the faces of the two men sitting in front of her, Hestia straightened her posture. "What do you want from me? I like everything to be listed out first so that I won’t be framed by others with the terms and conditions that come with the information that I want."
"I want you to marry me," Nathaniel said directly, and before Hestia could say anything, Jessie’s eyes had widened to the extent that her eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets.
‘No way, how this man presented his terms doesn’t even abide by basic law at all!'
Of course, Hestia did not think that Nathaniel proposed marriage out of love for her, so she lifted her eyes and said, "Give me a reason."
"In exchange for the information that you want now." Nathaniel looked straight into Hestia’s eyes. "You must have realized during this period of time that you can’t find anything about the Sulzbachs anywhere else. Not even the informant network that the Deschamps have always been proud of can do anything about it."
Hestia knew that Nathaniel was telling the truth, but getting married would inevitably involve a lot of interests.
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