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

care of that.

But Vera exploded.

Bonnie! You could have graduated long ago if you

same day as you, but she’s already a

this, you’ll

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

to take a

and had scolded her for

didn’t bother trying to explain herself

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

“Pyralis University?”

hardly believe her ears.

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

Only the cream of

because she studied

for two years. What makes you think

I become the top scorer in the entrance test.”

Bonnie was confident.

truly exasperated. By the time she regained her composure, Bonnie had returned

bedroom.

her research for two days straight, and she

was getting ready to shower, she received a video call

it, and a handsome man showed up

wants to have a game with you.”

you sure

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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titans of the chess world. This will be the game of the century! I’m really

“Sure.”

hot shower and lay down

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left her house in a tank top and a

kickboxing training in a long time, so she

saw an old man shadow boxing

to go,

a punch

elderly onlookers showered the man with their compliments.

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

kickboxing from a young age, so