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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kicked out of school because she could easily get someone

of that.

But Vera exploded.

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

as you, but she’s already

like this, you’ll never get

you do, it’ll probably be

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

believe her and had scolded her for lying.

trying to explain herself

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

“Pyralis University?”

hardly believe

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

Pyralis! Only the cream of the

because she studied hard

makes you think you

if I become the top scorer

Bonnie was confident.

she regained her composure, Bonnie

bedroom.

worked on her research for two days straight, and

to shower, she received a video call from one of her

a handsome man showed up on screen.

the Knight wants to have a game with

“Are you

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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Knight are the titans of the chess world. This will be the game of the century! I’m really looking forward to

“Sure.”

hanging up, Bonnie took a hot shower

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a.m. the next day, Bonnie left her house in a tank top and a

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

shadow boxing

to go,

can take a

onlookers showered the man with their

“Your footwork is poor,

from a young age, so she couldn’t help pointing out his mistakes.