Echoes of Unrequited Love

Chapter 166

After the middle–aged woman spoke her piece, all eyes in the room swiveled back to

1. me.

Shirley let out a snort of derision and glared at me, “Ms. March, with the eyewitness right here, what’s your story now?”

I glanced at the middle–aged woman, stepped forward, and asked, “Do you even know who I am?”

She looked taken aback and said, “aren’t you Xaviera?”

“When exactly did I supposedly send you to deliver a message to President Stapleton?” I pressed on, unwilling to let any detail slip by.

The woman gave me a quick look and said earnestly, “How could you forget? It was last night, down by our hotel lobby, around 8 PM or so, that’s when you told me about it.”

8 PM, hotel lobby–my mind raced through these details, and a knot of panic settled in my chest.

At that time, I was alone in my hotel room, with no one to vouch for my innocence.

It seemed that whoever was setting me up had thought of everything.

on me not having an

confusion in the voices around me grew, and I heard Sean ask,

was the same one I was staying at, and with her being

were getting

Sean ask, “Xaviera, so what were you

was polite enough, but the look in

shift and blurted out indignantly, “What’s the big idea? Xaviera is my guest. You doubting her is like questioning my integrity, you get me?”

clearly agitated, his gaze sharp

to smooth things over, “No way. Timothy. We don’t mean anything

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trying to get

else chimed in, but when they turned to me, they probed, “So, Ms. March, can you

asked nicely enough, but they hit me right where

clear my name, Timothy might get dragged down

I had no way to clear my name.

believe evidence. With so many voices against you, who would believe –

it looked like I