“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

wants me to do something bad

pressed her red lips together. “Are you saying that you’ve done something bad to me

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

you?!” Sonia’s expression darkened as she stood up angrily. Carl got to his feet immediately. “What is

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

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

and she had to take a few deep breaths

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 scalpel and removed his gloves to wash his hands at

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

no longer be nice to her now that I know her better. Furthermore, I hate

“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

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

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

questioned Sonia when he saw her packing up. She nodded before telling him about the conversation she just

offer since it was a grudge between Tina and her—she didn’t want anyone else to get involved. However, she finally gave in when she saw the hopeful gaze in his eyes. Both of

toward them with some documents. “Where are

handle outside. What is it?” Sonia

the documents in her hands. “These are last month’s financial statements.

can leave them in the office; I’ll take

Reed, is this…” Rebecca’s gaze was still fixed on Carl as she spoke. If Sonia hadn’t realized the careful look in

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

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

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,

biological brother,” Sonia

her gaze back to Carl. “Mr. Lee, is your surname actually Lee?

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 looks a

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

his eyes without any hesitation.

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

“Okay.” She then watched as Sonia and Carl stepped into 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 Carl Lee. Can you

drove the car. “Rebecca is no simple

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

 

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em good people anyway.

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 sigh. Sonia smiled and nodded as she

 

The workers then led the two of them to the private cubicle—Tim was waiting for them there. He was standing in front of the window, toying

bring one guy?” Tim took one glance at Carl before he shifted all of his focus toward

over, she had contacted a security company and spent 10,000 just to hire ten security guards. All ten of the

me how Tina’s going to attack me next? Where’s Tina now?” Sonia

to listen to her—I’ll have the conversation with her in the room next door. I’ve already installed hidden mics in the

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