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

around me grew, and I heard Sean

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

were getting

what were you doing during

but the look

idea? Xaviera is my guest. You doubting her is like questioning my integrity, you get

was clearly agitated, his gaze

smooth things over, “No way. Timothy. We

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our friend too. Sean’s just trying to get to the bottom

March, can you tell us what you were up to last

hit me right where

knew that if I couldn’t clear my name, Timothy might get dragged down with me.

truth was, I had no way to clear

many voices against you, who would believe – someone who spent the whole night alone

like I was going