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

The confusion in the voices around me grew, and I heard

hotel, which, by sheer coincidence, was the same one I was staying at, and with her being

getting hairy.

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

the look in his eyes

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

agitated, his gaze sharp and

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

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Sean’s just trying to get

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

enough, but they hit me right where it hurt.

my name, Timothy might

the truth was, I had no way to clear my name.

believe evidence. With so many voices against you, who would believe – someone who spent the whole night

care, and it looked like I