A Beauty With Multiple Masks

Chapter 1101 Could Not Afford It

The smell roused the scruples of a passing housekeeper. Setting aside the broom in her hand, she felt the urge to discuss it with a co-worker with whom she was close.

“I noticed it yesterday… I supposed it was perfume, but the scent was much too strong for that, so much so that I was starting to think it less like perfume and more like poison…”

Horrified by the implications of their own conjecture, the pair exchanged grim looks as they fell into a synchronous silence.

Meanwhile, without rhyme or reason, Wendy stared at her phone and felt the impetus to make another call.

Only that this time, she was greeted with a reminder from a female machine voice about her unpaid bills.

Things had gotten so bad at present that she could not even afford to pay for her own phone usage.

Never in her life had Wendy ever been this hard up before. Her only hope was for Cecilia to snap out of her stupor, initiate contact, and then settle this problem for her in a timely manner.

Elsewhere, Donovan was in an inexorable mood.

He kicked himself for not getting a grasp of the situation before he lobbied Selena, for the latter did dole out the punishment except that it was against Wendy.

felt the pinch from it. As among the few of them, Wendy had been the most consistently excellent one in terms of individual

of his graduating criteria being to successfully guide at least three students into Maxwell University, the loss of Wendy was tantamount to an inability to lock in one of those slots. How could he possibly

what was done. It was pointless to rue

then, a call came through from

“Hello, Mr. Noah…”

at school. Ms. Selena told me that she’ll be making inquiries on my behalf and will furnish us with San’s contact details if she’s amenable to helping

spontaneously

really mean

quite generous with her time and so I fully expect that she’d meet with us in short order, barring any unforeseen

worries. I’ll

he had over him before lifted, he enthusiastically went about looking into the finest dining spots in

was no ordinary guest. Hence, after being gripped by a brief sequence of indecision, Donovan lined up his

at the roost of the highest building in Lightspring boasted spectacular views all around and mandated a minimum spending of eight thousand per

back in front of his computer to refine the parts of his

to put on the finishing touches by illustrating his points