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

aching. Each ache would jolt her back to

up her day’s tasks. After requesting leave from Maja, she headed straight home by taxi.

didn’t seem to help. She lay on her bed in her cramped room, her thoughts drifting back to past events.

mother had remarried. Her stepfather

she started having private tutoring did

she had planned to

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

years and on the verge of marriage when Murray became entangled

was a failure, never having received love from her parents, and the only man she wanted to hold on to had abandoned

delved into her memories, she suddenly recalled that her biological father did love her. Her mother had left him because he was poor and content with his meager salary. He wasn’t

had some wealth, but

her phone and dialed her father’s number.

about her broken engagement, her mother

stepfather’s intentions toward Zoey. Disgusted 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 threatened, fearing her man would fall for

was

sensed it, too, which is why she was calling

let out in a hoarse voice, “Dad, I

then, she began to

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

way

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