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"My name is Diamond Johnson, I want to set up a meeting."
"A meeting?" Shailene frowned upon hearing the request. Most of the time, any new clients had to go through the hospital bureau before contacting Shailene.
Still, it wasn't uncommon for her to get a direct call from a potential client, but she didn't simply share her number with random people. The ones with her number must be recommended by her current or ex-clients, and all her clients were the elites.
'So this woman must be one of them as well,' Shailene believed.
"Certainly, Miss Johnson. But before we proceed, may I know who would recommend me to you? It's nothing serious, just patient data I have to fill in for the admin," Shailene said, though there was no administration here. She just wanted to ensure she wouldn't waste her time with a client without money.
"Yes, I got the recommendation from Madame Dorothea Gray," Diamond replied. "She told me to look for you."
Shailene's eyes widened instantly. She got excited knowing that Dorothea recommended her to one of her friends. Because it was a sign that Dorothea was still on her side, and she probably told Vincent about Vernon and Chloe's secret relationship already.
"Madam Gray is my main client. I feel honored that she recommended me," Shailene said. "I'm the best in my field, so you can trust me to handle your problem."
"That's nice...." Diamond said. She didn't seem to be as excited as Shailene. But Shailene didn't care. Maybe this woman was in too much emotional turmoil and needed a place to vent.
'In fact, it'd benefit me even more in the long run,' Shailene thought. 'As long as this woman is vulnerable, it won't be hard for me to extort more information about Dorothea and everything that's happening in the Gray family.'
"Please inform me when you will visit my office. I will send the address after a meeting has been scheduled," Shailene asked.
There was a brief pause from the other side until Diamond replied, "A week from now. Same day, I want to go after midnight."
"After midnight?" Shailene was taken aback by the sudden request. "M--Miss, my schedule is empty next week, so you can come at anytime--"
"Anytime, right? Then I will come after midnight, prepare yourself," Diamond said.
She was calm as she stated her schedule, but somehow, Shailene had a gut feeling that it sounded more like a threat.
But she quickly dispelled the idea, 'Maybe this woman is just crazed. It's not the first time I dealt with crazy women. Don't worry, Shailene, getting information from this woman will be easy,' Shailene tried to convince herself that everything was alright, even though her gut feeling said otherwise.
"Alright, Miss Diamond Johnson. I will set up the meeting on December 3rd, after midnight. Please come at the designated time, I will wait for one hour or the meeting will be canceled," Shailene said seriously. "I will text you my address after the call ends."
"No need, I know your apartment already," Diamond replied.
"Really? Did Madam Gray tell you my address?"
"Yes, she told me everything," Diamond hinted. "Including something very private."
Shailene took this as good news because Madam Gray must've been close to this woman to share something private.
'This is great, I can definitely extort a lot of information from a mentally unstable woman like this one,' Shailene thought.
"Then, the meeting has been scheduled. I'm looking forward to meeting you next week, Miss Johnson."
"Yes, good bye."
Beep.
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Shailene frowned when this woman ended the call with a simple goodbye, and it didn't sound friendly either.
"What the-- this woman sounds condescending as fuck!" Shailene complained. "No wonder she has problems, she's definitely the type of woman that everyone despises."
"Well, she is friends with Dorothea, I guess they're pretty much the same. They are the type of women that everyone hates, and the only redeeming quality they have is their money," Shailene said condescendingly. "Oh well, if she's as rich as Dorothea, I guess I can ask for ten grand, or even more as a payment for every meeting we got."
Shailene put her phone down and leaned on her chair. She stared at the ceiling for a while before a simple smile perked on her lips, "I don't know what's happening inside the Gray family right now. But I'm pretty sure that things are going awry there."
"Maybe Vincent had gone insane after knowing that he had been betrayed by his own little brother, then he decided to take that manipulative bitch back while ruining Vernon's business and his future."
"Then Vernon will have nowhere to go. He will be heartbroken, ruined, and he will realize that Chloe is nothing but a misfortune brought upon himself."
"Then, once everything has been destroyed, I can just wait and enter his life," Shailene's grin turned into a wide smile as she tried hard to contain her excitement.
It had been so long since the last time she had embraced that man, and that man was the only one she fell in love with. She thought that she would eventually forget about Vernon after their bad breakup.
But that feeling never left her heart. It lingered for so long that she stayed single because she found other men lesser than Vernon.
Thus, when she realized that her feelings for him hadn't subsided, she packed up and went to New York to find him. Honestly, it wasn't hard to find him because he was a rising CEO that was hot talk on social media.
She couldn't contact Vernon because he was so busy and didn't want to make the same mistake. She wanted to know everything about him before they got together again.
Thus, she started getting in contact with Madam Dorothea Gray and was able to grab her as the main client. Madam Gray naturally told her everything about her family. From there, she concluded that Chloe was the manipulative bitch that ruined Vernon.
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