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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wasn’t worried about getting kicked out of school because she could

care 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

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

keep fooling around like this, you’ll never get into college!

do, it’ll

Vera why she had to take a break from

didn’t believe her and had

trying to explain herself

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

“Pyralis University?”

believe her

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

Pyralis! Only the cream of the crop

studied hard day and night.

grades for two years. What makes you think you can get

getting in if I become the top scorer

Bonnie was confident.

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

bedroom.

on her research for two days straight, and she was exhausted.

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

and a handsome man showed up on

the Knight wants to have

“Are you sure it’s him?”

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

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terrific!” Heath Rice sounded excited. “The Shepherd and the Knight are the titans of the chess world. This will be the game of

“Sure.”

shower and lay

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

time, so she decided to work out

old man shadow boxing while his

go,

one can take a punch like

elderly onlookers showered the man with

footwork

kickboxing from a young age, so she couldn’t help pointing