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

chummy with someone who spilled the beans about others, especially not this crowd of

had them all giving me the

were looks of

and my gaze involuntarily landed on

a cucumber, Hogan was still the same old Hogan.

couldn’t help but suspect that he was

it was Xaviera who passed the message to you, but do you have any proof?” A

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he said, “You

Temple, what are you implying?” Shirley’s eyes widened, her irritation flaring up. “Are you saying I’m stirring up trouble on

say that, but Xaviera is

back.”

but it carried

of contention shifted to Timothy

atmosphere took a

voice suddenly piped up. “Since someone else was supposed to have passed the message, why don’t we just

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