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.

me not having an

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

were getting hairy.

ask, “Xaviera, so what were you

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

his gaze sharp and fiery.

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

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Chapter 166

trying to get to the bottom of

“So, Ms. March, can you tell us what

they hit

name, Timothy might get

truth was, I had no

believe evidence. With so many voices against you, who would believe – someone who spent the whole night alone in a hotel?

with care, and it looked like I was