“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?”

she would never look for me unless she wants me to

you saying that you’ve done something bad

he strung his words into a sentence. “Yeah, I’m sorry.

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

massaged the space between her brows as she continued to speak to the person on the phone. “Where’s my bag

his angel. Therefore, he went according to Tina’s request

her anger, and she had to take a few deep breaths before she managed

and I’m sure she wants to do something to you. I thought I’d ask you over to hear more about it.”

her phone. “How would I know that you’re not intentionally calling me over so that Tina could attack me? I know that you and

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

Send me the address.” Since Tim 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

to predict what Tina’s next move was. Soon enough, Sonia got a text

into his pocket. Then, he took a bottle of medication out

before telling him about the conversation she

want anyone else to get involved. However,

toward them with some documents. “Where are

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

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

I’ll take a look at them later,” Sonia

expression turned stern when she saw Carl standing beside Sonia. “President Reed, is this…” Rebecca’s gaze was still fixed on Carl as she spoke. If Sonia hadn’t realized the careful look

turned to Carl once she finished introducing him. “Carl, this is the head of the

hadn’t noticed the weird and judgmental look in Rebecca’s eyes as he grinned

she held 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 child, President Reed? Since when did

not my biological brother,” Sonia

thoughtfully before she shifted her gaze back to Carl. “Mr. Lee, is your surname actually Lee? Could you possibly be related to another family, like

The warmth was fading in Carl’s face as he spoke. Sonia looked puzzled as well. “Yeah, Rebecca. Why would you

beamed. “Please don’t misunderstand me. I just thought that he

to someone

met his eyes without

I’m sorry to disappoint you, but my surname 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

Rebecca. We’ll talk once I’m back,” Sonia uttered as

the elevator before she looked 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

the car. “Rebecca is no simple

hear this. “Rebecca killed someone? Stop

 

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em good people anyway.

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

 

cubicle—Tim was waiting for them there. He was standing in front of the window, toying with a tiny

one glance at Carl before he shifted all

a security company and spent 10,000 just to

to tell me how Tina’s going to attack me next?

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 the room next door.” He

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