“I’m being serious. I have two bodyguards who’re retired mercenaries, and they both took the lives of others. The aura I sensed from Rebecca felt the same as those two men’s aura. More importantly, I felt some calluses on her purlicue while I was shaking her hand—only people who spend a lot of time holding guns would have such calluses,” Carl explained in a stern tone.

“Gosh, I guess Rebecca isn’t as simple of a woman as I thought she was!” Sonia gasped.

“That’s why you should stay away from her, Sonia.” Carl repeatedly gave her the same reminder. However, Sonia shook her head in response to his words. “No, I shouldn’t stay away from Rebecca when she helped me in the past—that would make me an ungrateful person. Furthermore, I trust that she’d never hurt me.” Not everyone who has killed someone is a bad person, anyway. All the noble soldiers who protect our land have blood on their hands, but we consider th

“No, it’s someone else. For some reason, there have been a lot of controversial news articles popping up online today,” Carl replied.

Sonia was rather taken aback by this. “What sort of controversies?”

“Mr. Colehart of Hart Beauty Group was found to have a secret lover and child outside of his marriage, Mr. Ellen of Nexus Technologies was revealed to have evaded his taxes, Mr. Reinard of Commute Company was caught being a perpetrator of violence to his wife and children… The list goes on. There were about thirty different CEOs from different companies who had their dirty secrets leaked online, and the whole internet is a mess right now.” Carl’s coffee cup was already by the edge of his lips as he spoke.

Sonia widened her eyes in surprise. “Could they have offended some big shot? Is that why someone is making a fool out of them? But I don’t think it’s possible for so many different CEOs to have offended the same person.”

 

“Who knows? Perhaps someone just did it because they were annoyed with all the CEOs’ bad behaviors.” Carl chuckled.

Sonia nodded. “You’re right. Fortunately, Asher isn’t involved in any controversies; we’d see his name online otherwise. I don’t care if he loses his reputation, but I don’t want it to impact Paradigm Co.’s name.”

“Don’t worry. That will never happen to Paradigm Co.,” Carl uttered as he toyed with his coffee cup. She chuckled at his words. “We can never be too sure about such matters, even if—” Her phone rang before she could finish her sentence. She flashed Carl an apologetic smile before she glanced at her phone. It was a local number that she hadn’t saved in her contacts.

“Hello, who’s this?” Sonia swiped the green ‘answer’ slider on the screen before placing the phone by her ear.

The person on the other line was silent for two seconds before he responded. “Didn’t you save my number?”

Sonia blinked a few times. “Is that you, Tim?”

 

“It is!” Tim replied.

“Who is it, Sonia?” Carl tried to look at her phone, but Sonia gave him a look, telling him that they would talk later. She then shifted her focus back to the person on the call. “What is it?” she asked.

“Tina just contacted me. I’m sure it has something to do with you.” Tim gripped onto his phone by pressing his shoulder toward his ear while he used both his hands to deal with the animal carcasses on his surgical table.

would you say that?” Sonia

me unless she wants me to

together. “Are you saying that you’ve done something bad to

scalpel in Tim’s hand froze for a moment as he strung his words into a sentence. “Yeah, I’m

expression darkened as she stood up angrily. Carl got to

brows as she continued to speak

Tim replied in a sorry tone. Back then, he hadn’t known that she was his angel. Therefore, he went according to

as a result of her anger, and she had to take a few deep breaths before

to hear more about it.” Tim was nearly done with his surgery, and

know that you’re not intentionally calling me over so that Tina could attack me? I know that you and Tina are close, so why should

be nice to her now that I know her better. Furthermore, I hate how she always

had offered for her to bring more people over, she would bring a safe number of people so that she could escape even if there were a

true, then Sonia would be able to predict what Tina’s next

and stuck his phone back into his pocket. Then, he took a bottle of medication out of his glass cabinet before he walked out of the room—a creepy basement filled with

saw her packing up. She nodded before telling him about the conversation

didn’t want anyone else to get involved. However, she finally gave in when she saw

office when Rebecca walked toward them with some documents. “Where are you

have some matters to handle outside. What is it?” Sonia looked at

month’s financial statements. You need to

can leave them in the office; I’ll take a look at them later,”

fixed on Carl as she

Lee.” Sonia turned to Carl once she finished introducing him. “Carl,

in Rebecca’s eyes as he grinned and reached his hand out

her hand out to shake his. Carl was the first to pull away from the handshake two seconds later. Rebecca turned to glance at Sonia after that. “Aren’t you an only

not my biological brother,”

“Mr. Lee, is your surname actually Lee? Could you possibly be related to another family, like

that?” The warmth was fading in Carl’s face as he spoke. Sonia looked

thought that he looks a lot

I’m related to someone you know?” Carl glared

his eyes without any

isn’t Hayes or Coleman—it’s Lee. I’m not related to the person you’re talking about.” After fixing his sleeves, Carl grabbed onto Sonia’s arm. “Okay, let’s not

now, Rebecca. We’ll talk once

away and made a phone call. “Hey, old man, I found a teenager who looks a lot like the master. I suspect that he might be the person we’re looking for. His

“Rebecca is no simple woman, Sonia. She’s responsible for someone’s life! You

this. “Rebecca killed someone? Stop

 

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em good people anyway.

“Okay. But I hope you’re a little more alert with Rebecca, Sonia. You shouldn’t put all your trust in her,” he muttered with a sigh. Sonia smiled and nodded as she understood that Carl was doing it for her own good. “Okay.

 

destination a while after they ended their conversation. Carl parked the car and got out with Sonia. The workers then led the two of them to the private cubicle—Tim was waiting for them there. He was

you only bring one guy?” Tim took one glance at Carl before he shifted

calmly. While they were on the way over, she had contacted a security company and spent 10,000 just to hire ten security guards. All ten of the

attack me next? Where’s Tina now?” Sonia glanced left and right as she questioned

isn’t here yet, and she will not enter this room. This room is where you’ll wait around to listen to her—I’ll have the conversation with her in the room next door. I’ve already installed hidden mics in

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