I Love You, Miss Genius

Chapter 5

“Her name? Bonnie Shepard, B–O–N–N–1–E, S–H–E–P–A–R–D.”

“Please hold, sir. Let me check the records.”

A minute later, the voice came through, stammering this time.

“Y–you’ve made a mistake. Bon” she coughed, “Bonnie Shepard hasn’t broken any law or escaped from the police.

“If you make a false report again, we’ll charge you!”

With that, she hung up.

Gresham was stupefied. Vera was beside him and had heard everything the police officer said.

“Are you done? I’ll go upstairs then.” Bonnie left.

Vera felt a sense of pity as she watched her walk away.

After all, Bonnie might be a loser, but she was still her daughter.

“I’m sorry, Bonnie. We were wrong about you.”

Saddened, Bonnie stopped and looked over her shoulder at Vera. That woman hardly ever apologized to her and was never so gentle to her.

Gresham sighed.

“I was just worried about you. Anyway, I apologize.”

Bonnie frowned. “It’s okay.”

The living room fell silent, and Bonnie spoke first.

“I’m hitting the sack.”

“Wait!”

Vera stopped Bonnie. “What on earth happened the other day? Why did you get taken away?”

“I told you, it’s classified. I’ll tell you when the time is right.”

Bonnie told her the truth.

Vera was losing her patience and felt disappointed and angry.

She didn’t want to hear any more lies, so she changed the subject.

“The school called. They said they might kick you out if you skip classes again.”

“I’ll handle it.”

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out of school because she could easily get someone to

care of that.

But Vera exploded.

have graduated long ago

as you, but she’s already a sophomore at

fooling around like this,

you do, it’ll probably be some third–rate

Vera why she had to take a break

and had scolded her for

didn’t bother trying to

going to some third–rate college. I’ll be going to Pyralis University.”

“Pyralis University?”

hardly believe

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

best university in Pyralis! Only the cream of the

studied hard

two years. What makes you think you can get in?”

in if I become the top

Bonnie was confident.

she regained her

bedroom.

two days straight, and she

she received a video call from

it, and a handsome man showed

wants to have a game

“Are you

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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Heath Rice sounded excited. “The Shepherd and the Knight are the titans of the chess world. This will be the game

“Sure.”

hot shower and lay down in bed

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next day, Bonnie left her house

done any kickboxing training in a long time, so she decided to work out

man shadow boxing while his peers looked on.

go,

can take a punch like

elderly onlookers showered the

“Your footwork is poor, and your

so she couldn’t help