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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worried about getting kicked out of school because she could easily get someone

care of

But Vera exploded.

Bonnie! You could have graduated long ago if you

day as you, but she’s already a sophomore at Pyralis University!

this, you’ll never get

even if you do, it’ll probably be some

told Vera why she had to take a break

her parents didn’t believe her and had scolded her for

trying to explain

third–rate college. I’ll be going

“Pyralis University?”

believe her

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

university in Pyralis! Only the cream of the crop gets

studied

repeated grades for two years. What makes

I become the top scorer in the

Bonnie was confident.

exasperated. By the time she regained her composure, Bonnie

bedroom.

had worked on her research for two days straight, and she

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

it, and a handsome man showed up

the Knight wants to have a

intrigued. “Are you sure it’s him?”

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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

“Sure.”

a hot shower and

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day, Bonnie left her house in

in a long time, so she decided

shadow boxing while

go, Orson!”

take a punch like that!”

showered the

muttered to herself, “Your footwork is

had learned kickboxing from a young age, so