Chapter 35

Ivor was surprised. He wanted to take a closer look, but the man got into the car as well.

“It couldn’t have been Jim Ray.” He shook his head. Jim was Ms. Bonita’s top bodyguard. Why would he be with Bonnie? He must have been mistaken.

Meanwhile, in the Rolls–Royce, Jim was asking Bonnie worriedly, “How was everything? Was anyone from the Knight family mean to you?”

She found his question very amusing. “Do you think I’d let anybody be mean to me?”

He didn’t feel better just because she had answered him lightly. “Did Ivor do anything to you? Was he mean to you?”

“He treats me the way he would any ordinary person. He’s not exactly hostile toward me.”

“That’s fine, then.”

“Oh. Speaking of, he helped me out of a pickle just now.”

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What happened?” Jim sounded very worried. She told him everything that had just happened at the Knight family’s place. Jim’s face was stern to begin with, but

you. Leave it to me, Bonnie. I’ll charge them with treason

Jim, whose face was cold and grim, and shook her head. “You don’t use a sledgehammer to crack a nut. There was no need to involve you in this. And anyway, I

them off the hook

but you need to remember that Sigmund is Halle’s grandfather. I would have been much harsher

need to tell me if anything

know right away next time I get into trouble,” She promised him.

that

didn’t exactly feel reassured. “Maybe I should just stay with the Knight family. That’ll make it easier for me to

way. You’ll expose my identity to the whole world if you stay with the Knight family just to

traffic because I want to buy food or go shopping. I’ll lose my freedom and privacy. I just want

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for you. I believe you’ll be

lips and lowered his gaze, a plan already forming in his

institute the entire day. Something was different today. Several dozen bodyguards were standing in the courtyard, all of

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