Chapter 69

Indeed, Matthew had said that the previous evening, but he had been lying.

Now that he changed his mind, he corrected, “You remembered wrongly.”

“Remembered wrongly?” Carefully, Veronica thought about it. Indeed, she could recall now that there had been more than one bed at his penthouse when she was kidnapped.

At this moment, she was penniless and had no money to rent a room. It was also unclear how the Larson Family felt about her right now, so it would be safer and more cost-efficient for her to stay at Matthew’s penthouse in Twilight Condominium.

However…

 

“We would be a single man and a woman sharing an apartment. Wouldn’t that be inappropriate?” she asked, her tone guarded.

After taking in her stance, Matthew simply reached out and took the access card from her hands.

 

Ding 

As the elevator reached the second-floor basement, the doors opened and he walked out.

Immediately, she chased after him. “I’m kidding! Please don’t take it seriously. You’re my brother now. I trust your morals!”

PahOnly fool would trust him

Nonetheless, given the dire straits she was in, sleeping at the penthouse was her best option.

Moreover, she had Elizabeth to protect her. That was why Veronica trusted Matthew wouldn’t do anything to her.

Otherwise, she would castrate him personally!

After tugging on his arm and pulling the access card from his grip, she looked up at him. “If I have a place to stay, do I have food to eat as well?”

“This is what you wanted, Young Master Matthew-“Waiting at the second floor basement, Thomas had gone up to greet Matthew upon seeing him walk over, only to witness Veronica holding onto Matthew’s hand and skipping alongside him as she joked and laughed.

Both of them were acting intimate without the animosity from before, when they would be filled with murderous rage whenever they set eyes on each other.

approach. “Do you both have something to talk about? I’ll wait over there for

that, she made

hand and said collectedly,

very naturally, he led her

down at the paper bag in his hands. Inside it was all of Veronica’s personal

 Matthew truly not anxious about it?

distance. Since when have they been so close?What on earth happened the previous

back of the sedan while Matthew got

do you want to go?”

were many things she wanted to attend to, but she had to go to the police station to have her identity taken care of first. “Send

taking care of it. Come back with me to the Kings Residence for now. Grandma wishes to see

was entering the car, paused. Since when am I taking care of her identification?

searching for her whereabouts. Then, he was rescuing her with Matthew, only for the latter to instruct him to look into

care of her identification at

himself and only nodded cooperatively. “Don’t worry, Miss Murphy. Your ID will

all she could say since it would be much slower for her

of Matthew’s men, Thomas would receive special treatment and could naturally get things

heading in

the way there, Veronica asked to borrow Matthew’s cell phone. “Can you lend

he handed his phone

taking the phone, she made a

the call connected, she

the number Veronica was using to call her was different from the one from

my phone. I’m using…

had met Matthew at Saint Hospital, and even repeatedly told Veronica

Master Matthew’s phone? I

in for repair. I’m only calling you to tell you that you should rest well at home with Dad and that I’ll go back to visit you when I’m free. As for what you said this morning-don’t worry. As

fuss the Larsons were throwing. She wouldn’t let it get in the way of her

said so, the line descended into

a while could she hear Daniella

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