“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.

that?” Sonia narrowed her

wants

red lips together. “Are you saying that you’ve done something

words into a sentence. “Yeah, I’m sorry. I was the person on the

angrily. Carl got to his feet immediately.

as she continued to speak to the person on the phone.

replied in a sorry tone. Back then, he hadn’t known that she was his angel. Therefore, he went according to Tina’s request to deal with the phone after

Sonia could feel her lungs burning as a result of her anger, and she had to take a few

told you—Tina’s looking for me again, and I’m sure she wants to do something to you. I thought I’d ask you over to hear more about it.” Tim was nearly done with his surgery, and he lowered his

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

Tina because I thought you were her. However, I will no longer be nice to her now that I know her better. Furthermore, I hate how she

a moment before she came to a decision a few seconds later. “Okay. 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

able to predict what Tina’s next move was. Soon enough, Sonia got a text message with Tim’s location. ‘I’ll

Tim saw the text, he pushed his glasses up 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 all sorts of animal carcasses

heading somewhere, Sonia?” Carl hastily questioned Sonia when he saw her packing up. She nodded before telling him about the

was a grudge between Tina and her—she didn’t want anyone else to get involved. However, she finally gave in when

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

outside. What is it?”

“These are last month’s financial statements. You

office; I’ll take a look at them

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 in Rebecca’s eyes as she stared at Carl, she might have

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

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

first to pull away from the handshake two seconds

biological brother,” Sonia

raised her chin thoughtfully before she shifted her gaze back to Carl. “Mr. Lee, is your surname actually Lee? Could

do you mean by that?” The warmth was fading in Carl’s face as he

don’t misunderstand me. I just thought that he looks a lot

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

his eyes

but my surname isn’t Hayes or Coleman—it’s Lee. I’m not related to the person

make a move now, Rebecca. We’ll talk once I’m back,” Sonia uttered

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 person we’re looking for. His name is

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

killed someone? Stop scaring me, Carl. How could that

 

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em good people anyway.

how stubborn Sonia was. “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

 

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

one guy?” Tim took one glance at Carl before he shifted all of

calmly. While they were on the way over, she had contacted a security company and spent 10,000

you ask me over to tell me how Tina’s going to attack me next? Where’s Tina now?” Sonia glanced

This room is where you’ll wait around to listen to her—I’ll have the conversation with her in

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