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

confusion in the voices around me grew, and I

I was staying at, and with her being a housekeeper there, she’d have easy access to me.

were getting hairy.

Sean ask, “Xaviera, so what

enough, but the look in his eyes had changed.

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

agitated, his gaze sharp

reaction, the playboy of the group quickly tried to smooth things over, “No way. Timothy. We don’t mean anything by it. If Ms. March

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get to

to me, they probed, “So, Ms. March, can you tell us what you were up to last

they hit me

name, Timothy might get dragged down

the truth was, I had no way to

voices against you, who would believe – someone who spent

care, and it looked like I