“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 narrowed her

unless she wants me to do something bad

you saying that you’ve done something bad to me in the

strung his words into a sentence. “Yeah, I’m sorry. I was the person on the motorbike who snatched your

was you?!” Sonia’s expression darkened as she stood up angrily. Carl got to his

massaged the space between her brows as she continued to

tone. Back then, he hadn’t known that she was his angel. Therefore, he went according to Tina’s request

her lungs burning as a result of her anger, and she had to take a few deep breaths before she managed to calm down

I’d ask you over to hear more about it.” Tim was nearly done with his surgery, and he lowered his

I know that you’re not intentionally calling me over so that Tina could attack me? I know that you and

However, I will no longer be nice to her now that I know her better. Furthermore, I hate how she always lies to me.

offered for her to bring more people over, she would bring a safe number of

Tina’s next move was. Soon enough, Sonia

his pocket. Then, he took a bottle of medication out of his glass cabinet before

her packing up. She nodded before telling him

Tina and her—she didn’t want anyone else to get involved. However, she

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

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

her hands. “These are last month’s financial statements. You need to go through them and

can leave them in the office; I’ll take a look

as she spoke. If Sonia hadn’t realized the careful look in Rebecca’s eyes as she stared at Carl, she might have guessed that Rebecca

she finished introducing him. “Carl, this is the head

judgmental look in Rebecca’s eyes as he grinned and reached

to pull away from the handshake two seconds later. Rebecca turned to glance at Sonia after that.

not my biological

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

do you mean by that?” The warmth was fading in Carl’s face as he spoke. Sonia looked puzzled as well. “Yeah, Rebecca. Why would you ask such

“Please don’t misunderstand me. I just thought

related to someone you

his eyes

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,

now, Rebecca. We’ll talk once I’m back,” Sonia uttered as she looked at

Carl stepped into the elevator before she looked away and made a phone call. “Hey, old man, I found a teenager

he drove the car. “Rebecca is no simple woman, Sonia. She’s responsible for someone’s life! You should stay away from

to hear this. “Rebecca killed someone? Stop scaring me, Carl. How could that

 

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em good people anyway.

Rebecca, Sonia. You shouldn’t put all your trust in her,” he muttered with a sigh. Sonia smiled and nodded as she understood that

 

Sonia. The workers then led the two of them to the private cubicle—Tim was waiting for them

one glance at Carl before he shifted all of his focus toward

way over, she had contacted a security company and spent 10,000 just to hire ten security guards. All ten of the men should’ve arrived at the hotel—Sonia could sense that she was being watched the moment she arrived at the

ask me over to tell me how Tina’s going to attack me next? Where’s Tina now?” Sonia glanced left and right as she

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

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