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.

not

in the voices around me grew, and I heard Sean

woman named the hotel, which, by sheer coincidence, was the same one I was staying at, and with her being a housekeeper there, she’d have easy access to me.

getting hairy.

I heard Sean ask, “Xaviera, so what were you doing during

tone was polite enough, but the look in his eyes had changed.

this shift and blurted out indignantly, “What’s the big idea? Xaviera is my

clearly agitated, his

of the group quickly tried to smooth things over, “No way. Timothy. We

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trying to get to

me, they probed, “So, Ms. March, can you tell us what you

asked nicely enough, but they hit me right where it

couldn’t clear my name, Timothy

had no way to clear my name.

would believe – someone who spent the whole night alone in

trap was set with care, and it looked like I was going to be left holding the