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, “What?”

here for

a collective smirk, “Got

unleashed a flurry of military combative, two

towered over the subdued guard, repeating, “Where’s

students are all in

he scrambled up, only to receive

more.

the way,” she commanded, and the guard,

building and entered the backyard, where rows of

to accept her

more difficult than the

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

her hair was once again gripped, and her head forced toward the water, Merry widened her eyes in a mix

easier to

felt unworthy of life. What was left

uncared

surrender to the water, and never breathe

a voice pierced

as an illusion. Why else

clearer, “Merry? Little

familiar, spurred Merry to lift her head just in time to see that cool, composed figure break through the chaos.

a drowning soul clutching at a lifeline, Merry’s lips

the backyard, her eyes widened at the sight

use at all, because those teachers were very strong, and each one of them seemed to be practiced, and these students were no match for them at

kind of behavior made

had grown up in an orphanage,

she heard a faint, “Lia…”

Merry, once vibrant and now soaked and subdued, her eyes filled with a

the sight was shocking, but seeing