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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of school because she could easily

care of that.

But Vera exploded.

Bonnie! You could have graduated long ago if you hadn’t skipped school so often.

same day as you, but she’s already

you keep fooling around like this, you’ll never

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

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

her and

trying to explain herself

worry, I’m not going to some third–rate college. I’ll be

“Pyralis University?”

could hardly believe her

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

Only the cream of the crop gets in there!

studied hard day and night.

for two years. What makes you

in if I become the top scorer in the

Bonnie was confident.

By the time she regained her composure, Bonnie had returned to her

bedroom.

worked on her research for two days

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

handsome man showed

to have a game with

you sure it’s

“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

“Sure.”

up, Bonnie took a hot shower and lay

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

long time, so she decided to work out in

boxing while

to go,

can take a punch

the man with

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

young age, so