Echoes of Unrequited Love

Chapter 122

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In a breezy tone, Hogan just dropped this hot mess right on my shoulders. Suddenly, it felt like an invisible giant

squeezing my heart, so tight I could barely the

When we visited Morgan, me, Hogan and Cecilia were all there. It was hard enough to get the meeting since Hogan was busy pampering Cecilia with her career and leaving me out in the cold

Now that there was a curveball and things were heading south fast, he was looking at me to

clean up the mess

Turned out after all this hustle, I was just the fall guy

looked like – was like chasing a

Convincing FreeMan- when we didn’t even have a clue what he looked like- fairy tale.

if by some fluke I pulled it off, that was just me doing my job. But if I didn’t, well, we all knew what was coming.

I curled my fingers, trying to claw back some sanity, and said with a hint of sarcasm. “Mr. Zade sure has a lot of faith in

Alright, this time. I’ll give you plenty of room to show me what your got. One week, I

Hogan give me a tough nut to crack, but he

thousands of visitors every day. Firlding FreeMan there in such a short time was

probably setting me up on purpose, targeting me.

one week a bit too short? It’s really putting Xaviera in

quite considerate

at me as if he’d heard a joke and said. “Ms. March, you feel it’s

forced a casual tone,

whole story, she was livid, “This is the time to play dumb or throw a tantrum, for heaven’s sake. Why not act cute with Hogan and save yourself the headache?”

the corners of my lips, I replied, “You think I’m Cecilia?”

snapped back to reality, pondering, ‘Seems this guy’s got more intel than we

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just got trickier.

fan group. I believe we’ll have new leads soon enough.” Wallis reassured me. “But it looks like you’ll have to make the trip to Meadowbrook

boss; if we were both gone, it’d be chaos. I knew then that this time,