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

voices around me grew, and I

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

were getting hairy.

ask, “Xaviera, so what were you doing during that time?”

polite enough, but the look in his

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

agitated, his gaze sharp

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

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

March, can you tell us what you were up to

they hit me right where

that if I couldn’t clear my name, Timothy might get

the truth was, I had no way to clear my

so many voices against you, who would believe – someone

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