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.”

Chapter 5

2/4

of school

care of that.

But Vera exploded.

You’re 20 years old, Bonnie! You could have graduated long ago if you hadn’t skipped school so often. Hell, you even took one whole year off before!

as you, but she’s already

this, you’ll

it’ll probably

she had to take a break from school back then.

believe her and had scolded her

trying to

third–rate college. I’ll be going to

“Pyralis University?”

could hardly believe her

“Yup.” Bonnie nodded.

in Pyralis! Only the cream of the crop gets in there!

studied

years. What makes

become the top scorer in

Bonnie was confident.

the time she regained her

bedroom.

for two days straight, and she

received a video call from one

handsome

Knight wants to have a game with

you sure

“100%!”

“Okay, I’m in.”

Chapter

terrific!” Heath Rice sounded excited. “The Shepherd 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. I’ll reply

“Sure.”

Bonnie took a hot shower and lay down in bed to

3/4

left her house in a

in a long time, so she

saw an old man shadow boxing while his peers looked on.

go, Orson!”

a punch like that!”

showered the

and muttered to herself, “Your footwork is poor,

young age, so she couldn’t help pointing out his