Chapter 1036

By the time she arrived at the office, she was already late. She took a moment to freshen up and adjust her mindset.

Upon entering the office, Maja was already there, noticing her pale complexion.

“Zoey, you look terrible. Are you running a fever?”

Zoey quickly touched her own face, it was somewhat warm

“I think I might have caught a cold last night, Mr. Pennyfeather Ill be fine after taking some medication.”

“I’m sorry for dragging you into this yesterday lan has been investigating the kidnappers, and we are aware of who sent them. I assure you this won’t happen again.”

“Mr. Pennyfeather, there’s no need to apologize. I’m not bothered by it.”

Her vision started to blur. After a few more conversations, she returned to her desk and immediately took a fever reducer

was aching. Each ache would jolt her back to alertness, and the torment

languished at her desk until the evening, just managing to wrap up her

didn’t seem to help. She lay on her bed in her cramped room,

divorce, her mother had remarried. Her stepfather was always making inappropriate

started having private tutoring did her stepfather back off.

tutor was the man she had planned to

no opportunity to harass her. She saw Murray as her savior, keeping her safe from

the verge of marriage when Murray became

her parents, and the only man

him because he was poor and content with his meager salary. He wasn’t ambitious and didn’t indulge in kickbacks,

stepfather had some wealth, but his character

her phone and dialed her father’s number.

broken engagement, her

with her own daughter vying for her man, she was in a rush to marry Zoey off. But now that Zoey wasn’t marrying, her mother felt

was

it, too, which is why

call connected, she let out in a hoarse

then, she began to cry

other end was about to hang up, but hearing her cry, he furrowed his

suppressed cries eventually gave way to a complete breakdown.

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