Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 1130

Back in the car, Penny pulled onto the main road. Emmy sat in the passenger seat, arms crossed tight over her chest. For a long while, neither of them spoke. Finally, Emmy broke the silence. “Those eyes… they scared me,” she said softly. “But that face, I’m positive I’ve never seen it before.”

Penny’s voice was steady and serious. “Ma’am, your instincts are always spot on. If someone gives you that kind of feeling, there’s definitely something off about them.” Without hesitating, Penny pressed the call button on her Bluetooth earpiece. “Check the man in the gray cashmere coat. He was outside the toy store on the second floor of Prudential Center about two minutes ago. I want everything you can find on him.”

Half an hour later, Emmy was back in her dorm, putting away her shopping bags. She poured herself a cup of hot water, still feeling unsettled, when Penny walked in holding her phone. “Ma’am, I got the information.”

Emmy set down her cup and turned to face her. “He’s not just another tourist,” Penny said, frowning at her screen. “The intel says he’s from Hawaii. He keeps a low profile, but he’s a Chinese American investor. His name is Abyss. In Chinese, that’s...”

“Abyss?!” Emmy’s face went pale. She cut Penny off, her voice trembling.

Penny quickly handed her the phone. “Yes, ma’am. That’s his name.”

Emmy grabbed the phone and scrolled through the file as fast as she could. The image on the screen was the man from the mall, clear as day. Abyss, thirty years old, Chinese American, made his fortune in Hawaii two years ago. He’d built up a huge amount of wealth almost overnight with some very smart investments, and even on Wall Street people knew his name. He had a reputation for being decisive and ruthless. The file was airtight, pulled from Steve’s intelligence network, so Emmy didn’t doubt any of it. It was a complete record, every detail of his life laid out.

But something felt wrong. Emmy stared at the name, her breath catching. “How can this be just a coincidence…”

Abyss. She remembered finding Dean’s overseas documents in his desk. That name was there too—Abyss. But Dean was dead. And this face…

Emmy blinked in surprise. John went on, “But Harlene and the others are all vacationing in Hawaii. The lab’s empty. The investor wants to come see the lab this afternoon. Are you free? Can you come by?”

Emmy didn’t hesitate. “Sure, I’ll come over after lunch.”

After a quick meal, Penny drove Emmy to the lab. The whole area was quiet because of the holidays. Penny pulled up to the curb and put the car in park. “Ma’am, I’ll wait in the car.”

Emmy tightened her coat and stepped out, her boots crunching in the snow as she hurried toward the entrance. She pushed open the door and stopped short, stunned by who she saw standing inside.