“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.

you say that?” Sonia narrowed her

would never look for me unless she wants me to do something bad to

her red lips 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 sorry. I was the person on the motorbike

darkened as she stood up angrily.

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

his angel. Therefore, he went

Sonia could feel her lungs burning as a result of her anger, and she had to take a few deep breaths before she managed to calm down the burning fire within

to do something to you. I thought I’d ask you over to hear more about it.”

onto 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 Tina are close, so why should

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

Since Tim had offered for her to bring more people over, she would bring

what he said was true, then Sonia would be able to predict what Tina’s next move was. Soon enough, Sonia got a text message with Tim’s location.

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 and a

hastily questioned Sonia when he saw her packing up. She nodded before telling him about the conversation she just had with Tim. He immediately insisted on

involved. However, she finally gave in when she saw the hopeful gaze in his eyes. Both of

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

outside. What is it?” Sonia

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

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

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

finished introducing him. “Carl, this is

and judgmental look in Rebecca’s eyes

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 you get

my biological

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

Carl’s face as he spoke. Sonia looked

misunderstand me. I just thought that he

to someone you

eyes without

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 Sonia’s arm.

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

found a teenager who looks a lot like the master. I suspect that he might be

talking as he drove the car. “Rebecca is no simple woman, Sonia. She’s responsible for

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

 

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em good people anyway.

a little more alert with Rebecca, Sonia. You shouldn’t put all your trust in her,” he muttered with a sigh.

 

private cubicle—Tim was waiting for them there. He was standing

Tim took 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

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

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

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