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?”

puzzled glances, “What?”

for

smirk, “Got a screw loose? Restrain her.”

unleashed a flurry of military combative, two

the subdued guard,

“The students are all

up, only to receive

more.

she commanded, and the

rounded a building and entered the backyard, where rows

ready to accept her fate.

was more difficult than the

ears rang as her teacher’s voice boomed, distant yet all too near “Can’t even memorize a simple passage? What

toward the water, Merry widened her

easier to just

thought haunted her. She felt unworthy of life.

uncared

eroded her will to fight, surrender to the water, and never breathe

then, a voice pierced through, “Merry.”

dismissing it as an illusion. Why

calls grew clearer, “Merry? Little

crystalline and familiar, spurred Merry to lift her head just in time to see that cool,

clutching at a lifeline,

her eyes widened at the sight of the dunk

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

behavior made her eyes

orphanage, she had never seen anything like this

clamor, she

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

the sight was shocking, but seeing Merry in distress ignited anger