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

the voices around me

by sheer coincidence, was the same one I was staying at, and with her being a housekeeper there, she’d

getting hairy.

“Xaviera, so what were you

but the

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

was clearly agitated, his gaze sharp and

to smooth things over, “No way. Timothy. We

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too. Sean’s just trying to get

probed, “So, Ms. March, can you tell

enough, but they hit me right where

couldn’t clear my name, Timothy might get dragged down

no

you, who would believe – someone who spent

with care, and it looked like I