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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getting kicked out of school because

of that.

But Vera exploded.

or something? You’re 20 years old, Bonnie! You could have graduated long ago if you hadn’t skipped school so

born on the same day as you, but she’s already a

around like this,

you do, it’ll

had told Vera why she had to take a break from school back

her and

trying to explain

not going to some third–rate college. I’ll be going to Pyralis

“Pyralis University?”

believe her

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

best university in Pyralis! Only the cream of the

because she studied

repeated grades for two years. What makes you think you can get

getting in if I become the top scorer in the entrance

Bonnie was confident.

regained

bedroom.

had worked on her research for two

as she was getting ready to shower, she received a video call from

answered it, and a handsome man showed up

wants to have

“Are you

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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

“Sure.”

Bonnie took a hot shower and lay down in bed to sleep.

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6:00 a.m. the next day, Bonnie left her house in a tank top

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

an old man shadow boxing

to go,

take a punch like that!”

the man with their compliments.

muttered to herself, “Your footwork is poor, and your

so she