Chapter 165

“Ms. March, aren’t you gonna give me the lowdown?”

The sharp words were ringing in my ears. I steadied myself and coolly said, “President Stapleton, it wasn’t me.”

“It wasn’t you?” Shirley’s eyebrows knitted together in a frown. “Then who could it be?”

She clearly wasn’t buying what I was selling.

I patiently laid it out for her, “If I had a message for you, I could’ve come to you directly. Why would I beat around the bush?”

Shirley’s eyes were darting around, suspicion written all over her face. “Then why on earth are people singling you out, Xaviera?”

I was choked up, unable to respond.

Yeah, I’d also like to know why, when passing along a message, they had to drag my name, Xaviera, into it.

Wasn’t that just throwing me under the bus?

Setting me up to take the fall?

And here I was, with no solid proof to clear my name.

helpless, to

someone who spilled the beans about others, especially not

Shirley’s comment had them all

were looks

got, and my gaze involuntarily

Hogan was still the

before, I couldn’t help but suspect that

it was Xaviera who passed the message to you, but do you have any proof?” A crisp voice snapped me out of my

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casually on my shoulder as he said, “You can’t just throw accusations

eyes widened, her irritation flaring up. “Are

is my

back.”

voice wasn’t loud, but it carried

shifted to Timothy and Shirley.

atmosphere took a

supposed to have passed the message, why don’t we

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