Love or Die CEO’s Daily Dose of Swoon

“Bang.”

Chapter 158

Cordelia’s boot connected with the security guard’s midsection, sending him sprawling to the ground as she barreled into the school premises.

Hidden not far off, Skyler gulped nervously. He’d always thought Cordella was the dainty, helpless type. He was wrong. She was so strong.

Fumbling with his phone, he dialed Everard, “Boss, Cordelia just stormed the gates.”

Everard’s response was as chilled as a winter’s breeze, “Okay, just keep an eye on her. No casualties, please.”

Skyler’s voice hitched in disbelief, “What? ‘No casualties‘? That’s your bar for concern?”

“What I mean is, don’t let her cause any casualties.”

It took a moment for Skyler to catch on. The boss was worried Cordelia might go full terminator on them.

He smirked wryly, “Got it.”

Everard instructed, “Let her stir the pot a bit before you wrap up your end, and make it snappy.”

“Boss, don’t rush me.” Skyler retorted, fingers dancing across his laptop keyboard, “A true man takes at least an hour.”

As Skyler bantered, Cordelia had already penetrated the heart of the campus.

A guard bellowed, “Who the heck are you? We’ve got an intruder.”

His shout summoned a squad of security guards, who, upon seeing a slender girl as the culprit, chuckled among themselves, “Can’t handle a little girl?”

The guard she’d floored was quick to caution, “Don’t take her lightly – she packs a punch.”

The guards advanced, one of them taunting, “Sweetheart, leave now and we might let you off easy.”

Cordelia’s only reply was a steely, “Where’s Merry?”

exchanged puzzled glances,

for Merry.”

guards shared a collective smirk, “Got a

of military combative, two guards sent flying, and

the subdued guard, repeating, “Where’s

squeaked, “The students are all in the

Cordelia watched as he scrambled up, only to receive a swift kick that sent him

more.

commanded, and the guard, trembling,

rounded a building and entered the backyard, where rows of dunk tanks stood before them.

to

air was more difficult than the last. Now,

yet all too near “Can’t even memorize a simple passage? What good are you? A waste of space. People like

and her head forced toward the water, Merry widened her eyes in a mix of helplessness and despair.

would be easier

haunted her. She felt unworthy of life. What was left

uncared

surrender to the water,

a voice pierced through,

an illusion. Why else would

calls grew clearer, “Merry? Little Parrot?”

to lift her head just in time to see that cool, composed

clutching at a

widened at the sight of the dunk

pressed them into the tank. The students struggled, but it was no use at all, because those teachers were very strong, and each

kind of behavior made her

an orphanage, she had

amidst the clamor, she heard a faint, “Lia…”

now soaked and

shocking, but seeing Merry