Chapter 343
\nThree Years Later, He Came Back Begging novel Chapter 343<\/p>\n
Dale was feeling under the weather, so he instructed Bonnie to take Perry Parker and head to the construction site.<\/p>\n
Hearing the exhaustion in her mentor’s voice, Bonnie quickly asked if he was okay. Dale waved it off as a minor bug and ended the call.<\/p>\n
Checking her watch, Bonnie called Perry and told him to meet her there.<\/p>\n
She quickly informed the pet spa staff she’d be back later to pick up June and hailed a cab to the site. When she arrived, she realized they were in serious trouble.<\/p>\n
It was a complete mess.<\/p>\n
Surveyors, city officials, and structural engineers from the East Coast Architectural Institute were all arguing. Surrounding them was a massive crowd of local residents, some armed with megaphones.<\/p>\n
The heavy local accents immediately put Bonnie on edge.<\/p>\n
Perry was already there, standing awkwardly to the side. As an incoming college junior, he was entirely out of his depth.<\/p>\n
Seeing Bonnie, he rushed over, looking panicked. “Bonnie, we have two major problems. One, there’s a structural issue. Two, these locals saw the public notice about turning the area into a pedestrian district, and they are furious. They’re refusing to let the construction crews in.”<\/p>\n
The surrounding historic residential buildings would undoubtedly be impacted by the scaffolding and noise, but halting the preservation project wasn’t an option.<\/p>\n
Bonnie quickly assessed the situation. Dealing with angry locals was a city administration issue, not an architect’s job. She bypassed the shouting match and headed straight for the surveyors to review the blueprints.<\/p>\n
The archived plans were incomplete. The onsite team had discovered severe rot inside the historical structures; several foundational pillars were completely compromised.<\/p>\n
There were also major facade issues that would drastically alter their current design proposals.<\/p>\n
It was a nightmare of revisions.<\/p>\n
Frowning, Bonnie meticulously compared the blueprints to the decaying structures. She instructed Perry to take as many reference photos as possible. She needed Dale’s expert eyes on this.<\/p>\n
She simply didn’t have the authority or experience to make these calls.<\/p>\n
They were so focused\u2014her holding the blueprints, him snapping photos\u2014that they didn’t pay attention to the escalating crowd behind them. Before Bonnie even registered the danger, Perry crashed into her.<\/p>\n
Bonnie grabbed Perry’s arm, shaking her head. Getting into a brawl with the locals would be a PR disaster. They were just minor scrapes anyway.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, the sight of a bleeding, injured woman took the wind out of the protesters’ sails. They exchanged uneasy glances, muttered about filing official complaints with the city, and slowly dispersed.<\/p>\n
Bonnie’s ankle was already swelling violently. Perry insisted on practically carrying her to a small, nearby clinic. As the doctor cleaned her scrapes, she suddenly remembered June.<\/p>\n
She looked up. “Perry, are you free later?”<\/p>\n
Perry awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck, assuming she was about to ask him to pull an all-nighter drafting. He wasn’t trying to slack off, but he genuinely had plans.<\/p>\n
A faint blush crept up his neck. “Bonnie, it’s my twenty-first birthday today. I have a dinner date with Yvonne Walker. Is it an emergency?”<\/p>\n
“Oh,” Bonnie blinked. “No, it’s fine. Happy birthday.”<\/p>\n
She sighed, rubbing her temples, and reluctantly opened her WhatsApp chat with Lawrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1011","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}