Chapter 1036

By the time she arrived at the office, she was already late. She took a moment to freshen up and adjust her mindset.

Upon entering the office, Maja was already there, noticing her pale complexion.

“Zoey, you look terrible. Are you running a fever?”

Zoey quickly touched her own face, it was somewhat warm

“I think I might have caught a cold last night, Mr. Pennyfeather Ill be fine after taking some medication.”

“I’m sorry for dragging you into this yesterday lan has been investigating the kidnappers, and we are aware of who sent them. I assure you this won’t happen again.”

“Mr. Pennyfeather, there’s no need to apologize. I’m not bothered by it.”

Her vision started to blur. After a few more conversations, she returned to her desk and immediately took a fever reducer

She was tired, but her body was aching. Each ache would jolt her back to alertness, and the torment was unbearable

her desk until the evening, just managing to wrap up her day’s tasks. After requesting leave from Maja, she headed straight home by

seem to help. She lay on her bed in her cramped room, her

following her parents divorce, her mother had

tutoring did her stepfather back

the man she had planned to marry, Murray.

stepfather had no opportunity to harass her. She saw Murray as her savior, keeping

years and on the verge of marriage when Murray became

felt her life was a failure, never having received love from her parents, and the only

suddenly recalled that her biological father did love her. Her mother had left him because he was poor and

wealth, but

daze. Zoey pulled out her phone and dialed her father’s

her broken engagement, her mother felt disgraced and stopped communicating with

own daughter vying for her man, she was in a rush to marry Zoey off. But now that Zoey wasn’t marrying, her mother felt threatened, fearing her man would fall

thought was

had sensed it, too, which is why she was calling her father.

out in a hoarse voice, “Dad, I miss you so

she began to cry

about to hang up, but hearing

cries eventually gave way to a complete

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