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.

claw back some sanity, and said with a

said, “Ms. March, aren’t you full of tricks? Alright, this time. I’ll give you plenty of room to show me what your got. One week, I expect to see satisfying results.”

a tough nut to crack,

visitors every day. Firlding FreeMan there in such a short time was like looking for a needle

Hogan was probably setting me

seeing the situation, piped up. “Hogan, isn’t one week a bit too short? It’s really putting Xaviera in a tight

considerate of her.

as if he’d heard a joke

casual tone, “Fine. I’ll take on the mission.”

dumb or throw a tantrum, for

I replied, “You think I’m Cecilia?”

that FreeMan stood us up last minute is really weird.” Wallis snapped back to reality, pondering, ‘Seems this guy’s got more intel than we

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just got

soon enough.” Wallis reassured me. “But it

a boss; if we were both gone, it’d be chaos. I knew