Sparks Villa, in Natalie's study.
Natalie was reading a file on the desk when her phone vibrated. She took it up and saw a new text message from a contact saved as [D]. She was just about to reply to it when she heard footsteps, making her let the phone drop onto her lap and continue reading the file on her desk with heightened concentration.
Ava walked in after knocking softly. "Are you busy?"
"It's alright. Is something the matter?" Natalie asked with a soft smile.
When Ava accidentally saw some of the content on the file Natalie was reading, she sized up her daughter suspiciously. When the latter asked someone to do a background check on Zaria, she had thought that her daughter was going to confront Zaria or destroy her.
She hadn't wanted to meddle, but when she saw that Natalie was planning to bring Zaria over to their company, she couldn't help being curious. "What are you up to?"