The Ex and Her Riches

Chapter 306 I Am Not Afraid Of You

Cedrick’s frown deepened when she did not speak. “Gwenny?”

Snapping back to her senses, she explained firmly, “My gut feeling tells me he’s hiding something and that there is more to this than meets the eye. I sent the

from him to the laboratory to be tested, and they said everything like he genuinely found a cure for you.”

“What did he ask in return when he gave you the cure?”

“Bail him out. He wants his freedom back.”

“That’s all?” Cedrick was suspicious.

Cine I received the with it. It seems

“You’re right, but I don’t know his ulterior motive. Regardless, he has no one to help him out now, so I guess there’s nothing substantial he can do.”

Here, Gwendolyn clenched her fists and changed the topic. “Anyway, it’s getting late, Ceddy. Get some rest first. We’ll think about this tomorrow.”

Despite her trying to digress from the subject, Cedrick was adamant about getting to the bottom of it. “If he knew S404 was the antidote, I am at his mercy. He has too big of a bargaining chip to ask for just this.”

“I mean…” Gwendolyn hesitated, forcing a smile to hide her uneasiness. “How would I know what he’s thinking? He probably has a plan cooked up but didn’t tell me about it.”

She had already decided to keep the other two terms she agreed to from Cedrick, for if the latter found out about it, he would utterly knock back the idea of injecting the cure Charles

gave.

Moreover, she needed more time to consider her strategy moving forward regarding dealing with Charles and planned on drawing more helpful information from the man to get hold of the antidote.

When Cedrick was bent on finding out more, she rubbed her tense shoulders and looked at him with tired eyes, saying, “Why don’t we leave this for some other time, Ceddy? I’m so tired. It’s been a long day.”

“But, Gwenny…”

Looking at the persistent man, Gwendolyn held his face and kissed his thin lips, a gesture that happened to be their bedtime ritual.

“Goodnight, Ceddy.”

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replied, finally giving in under her

an early rest too. I’ll go

“Okay.”

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snuggled down in his blanket and closed his eyes, Gwendolyn gazed at him until his

little did she know, the supposedly asleep man opened his

eyes staring into the ceiling, it was apparent that Cedrick had seen through Gwendolyn–she was such a bad liar Cedrick could not help but notice the minute

was confident that she was hiding something from him, but the more she tried to keep it to herself, the more Cedrick was convinced that Charles had asked

any further, for it was already too much to put her through all the suffering because of him, so at that moment, he decided to find out the truth

he heard the door clicking from

a faint noise, Cedrick

of bed and closed the windows carefully before pulling out his phone to call Nico, who sounded frustrated when he picked up since he had barely fallen

me in one go what you want me to do? How am I supposed to sleep if you call

Cedrick lowered his voice and noted, “It seems like you don’t like

“No

about staying up the night to play some games while I wait

overtime. Go to the finance department and ask for double your rate for this.

surge of energy shooting through

You’re the best

O

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love you,” Cedrick dissed, the disgust apparent on

belong to Gwenny. I’m not letting anyone touch even a strand of my

boss. I’m straight,

since he got out of jail. I want him apprehended at all costs. Don’t let Gwenny know

“Right away, boss!”

fallen into a deep sleep after pulling an all–nighter the day

early and bought some seafood. A few hours then elapsed with him preparing a meal in

exposed to

black hair sticking out of

on that man, so she

Cedrick slowly inched toward her to not wake her, she leaned onto him suddenly and