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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school

care of that.

But Vera exploded.

Do you think you’re the principal or something? You’re 20 years old, Bonnie! You could have graduated long ago if you hadn’t skipped

as you, but she’s

fooling around like this, you’ll never get

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

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

her and had scolded her

didn’t bother trying to explain herself

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

“Pyralis University?”

could hardly believe her

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

Pyralis! Only the cream of the crop gets in

in because she studied

for two years. What makes you think

have no problem getting in if I become the top scorer

Bonnie was confident.

she regained her composure, Bonnie had returned to

bedroom.

research for two days straight,

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

and a handsome man showed

the Knight wants to have a

“Are you sure

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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the titans of the chess world. This will

“Sure.”

hot shower and lay down

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her house in a tank top and a

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

boxing while his peers looked on.

to go, Orson!”

can take a

elderly onlookers showered the man with their

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

young age, so she couldn’t help pointing out