Echoes of Unrequited Love

Chapter 165

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.

felt pretty helpless,

spilled the beans about others, especially not

Shirley’s comment had them all giving me the side–eye.

looks of

got, and my gaze involuntarily landed on the man

cucumber, Hogan was still the same old

what went down the day before, I couldn’t help but suspect that he was up to his neck

to you, but do you have any proof?” A

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

widened, her irritation flaring up.

say that, but Xaviera is my guest,

back.”

loud, but it carried an

of contention shifted

took a nosedive.

way to sort this out,” a sweet voice suddenly piped up. “Since someone else was supposed to have passed the message, why don’t we just call them over and ask? Maybe there’s been some

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