Charles Carter answered the question instead with a smile, “Hailey owns a beauty salon chain. Years ago, she wanted to develop her own products so she bought a small manufacturing plant with an R&D center to realize her ambitions. That being said, till now nothing ever comes of it, so it has been dormant for a while.”

In fact, Hailey had actually discussed the matter with Brittany earlier.

Otherwise, Hailey would not have mentioned it now.

Brittany was also a capable businesswoman years ago s