Nelly froze and turned around.

“Oh, it’s you.” She smiled unnaturally. “Mrs. Hamerton said that she missed a piece of jewelry and asked me to collect it here, but I don’t have the keycard.”

“It’s fine. I have a spare.” The manager smiled and immediately pulled out a keycard to open the door.

Cordelia eyed Helen with a look that asked the latter to hide in the closet. Helen did it instantly. She was petite. Although she was old, her legs were light and agile, so she snuck into the closet swiftly.

The next moment, Nelly entered as anticipated.

It was exactly what she wanted when she saw Cordelia standing there without anyone around.

Cordelia smiled. “Ms. Tanner, you’re here to rest too?”

“Yeah,” Nelly answered nonchalantly.

“But this is Aunt Cloud’s private room,” Cordelia replied coolly. “Shouldn’t you inform her that you want to take a rest here?”

into fists

latter instead of succeeding. She was useless! Yelena could no longer execute the plan of slapping

poured herself a glass of water at the bar, “Aren’t you

Cordelia said softly. “Aunt Cloud brought me

keycard in Nelly’s hand with a cryptic

This was not the time to

and this was Kate’s private space. If

and tried to act

“Can we talk?”

what?” Cordelia furrowed her

about between

a little too strong, and

know that you’ve always been hostile to

knew that I would marry him in the future. I’ve always seen him as my only

cast her eyes down. The arrogance she always exuded dimmed a little. She

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