She Is A CEO

“It’s not convenient for me to intervene, so you can handle it for me,” said Spencer.

Jacob glanced at Spencer, wondering why he had asked him to come forward.

“Forget it,” Spencer said, reading Jacob’s mind, “You’ll see,” he said. “But until then, you have to protect yourself. I can’t help you with Poppy reporting you, but I can help you with something outside the law.”

“That’s enough,” Jacob said with an ingratiating smile, paying no attention to his usual arrogance. He had unwittingly developed a sense of domestication toward Spencer, and he would listen to whatever he said.

But Spencer knew that. He smiled with satisfaction and clinked glasses with Jacob again. “To us, and to all the best.”

“All the best,” Jacob said with a smile.

Early in the morning, just after dawn, Kane woke up. He looked at his phone and realized it was only 6 o’clock. He rarely got up so early.

“Come on, get up.” Kane stretched, got up early, and walked out of the room to find Poppy’s door still closed. He didn’t bother her, but went to make his own breakfast. And two hours passed.

Kane hadn’t been himself these past two days. Perhaps because Poppy’s video, like a suicide note, it made him feel a little out of place, as he watched Poppy’s more relaxed face without feeling any anger.

“Maybe I’m overthinking it,” Kane said in a self-deprecating tone as he finished making breakfast, then went to wake Poppy up for breakfast.

“Poppy, wake up.” Kane knocked on the door, but no one answered, so he knocked again, and the third and fourth time no one answers. Kane sensed something was wrong.

from Lepus, so she was a light sleeper. Sometimes he woke her up in the middle of the night with a glass of water, and

any hesitation, Kane ran back to his room to find the spare key to the guest room. Despite his own rummaging through the drawers, gasped for the key and found it, his heart was pounding. An ominous premonition hung

door, Kane gritted his teeth and knocked again, this time with all his might. He knocked the door

why he felt so cold when the sun was shining. He quickly looked up at the bed and saw a bulge on the big bed. Kane walked

back to him. She was still in bed, and just

but now he looked at the color of the pillow, how

broke out on his forehead. Kane called out to Poppy in a low voice that he didn’t even realize

respond,

describing, Kane’s heart skipped a step. As he got closer, the stench

was really wrong, Kane took a deep breath and reached out his

dead gray, and ironically, the last

off Kane’s apartment, which was no longer his home but a scene

the sofa and was drenched in a cold sweat that couldn’t dry. His face was horribly

but after investigation, police found that Poppy had been shot between the eyes with a sniper rifle while she was sleeping in the middle of the night. The surveillance cameras in the stairwell showed Kane had never left the house before he was cleared of any wrongdoing, but he was still called back to the police station for

wet with sweat. He looked up at the bright and blinding sun. Kane was in a daze and

Poppy, was she dead?

Kane asked himself.

He saw it

He told himself.

was and collapsed on the floor. He didn’t faint, but he wasn’t conscious either. He wondered how long he sat on the floor before a guard helped