Rosa?
How could it be?
It had been three months since the Jessica Dawson incident.
Back then, when Natalia had been on Fortuna Island, she'd received an anonymous email with a recording attached. The same recording that she'd taken and played for media and police.
Because it had been anonymous, Natalia hadn't known who'd sent it, but there was no reason to look a gift horse in the mouth, so she'd used it anyway.
And taken down the Dawson family with it.
Afterwards, Natalia had sent people to trace the origin of the recording. After a few twists and turns, they found out that it was something Rosa had left her.
She'd been shocked back then and had wanted to find Rosa to make it up to her.
But no matter how hard she'd searched, she couldn't find where Rosa had ended up.
Because there'd been videos of her publicly testifying for Natalia and accusing Jessica of bribing her to drug and frame Natalia, Rosa had been a target of online abuse for quite some time.
Even though there were still plenty of people who believed in her and supported her, most people doubted her.
So, even though she hadn't found her at the time, Natalia thought of it as her changing environments to quiet down for a bit, so she didn't keep up the search.
She hadn't expected to see her resume here today.
Natalia thought about it and sent a text to Rosa.
Then she looked at the phone number on the resume and called it.
It only took a few rings before it was picked up.
A girl's clear voice rang out from the other end.
"Hello, who is this?"
"It's me, Rosa." Natalia said softly.
The receiver went quiet for an instant.
Followed quickly by Rosa's shocked voice.
"Na... Natalia?"
Natalia smiled. "Yeah. You sound surprised?"
Rosa was caught off-guard as she explained, "N-no, I didn't think you'd call me. How did you get my number?"
Ever since that incident, she couldn't take the online and media harassment and had changed her phone number.
So there were only a handful of people who knew her number.
Hearing her question, Natalia raised an eyebrow.
That was a little surprising.
"I saw the resume you sent towards Star Entertainment so I just called the number on top. Didn't you send the resume yourself?"
"No."
Rosa said, panicking. She paused, then added, "I'm sorry, I didn't think she'd send it to you. I've troubled you."
With that, she made to hang up.
Picking up on it, Natalia hurriedly stopped her. "Wait."
She frowned. "Why do I feel like you're scared of me? I don't recall offending you. Discounting the time that I had Nancy take you to the hotel."
Rosa laughed awkwardly.
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