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?”

hands into fists and kept her

the word “upstart” but was chased out of the hotel by the latter instead of succeeding. She was useless! Yelena could no longer execute the plan of slapping herself.

brow and poured herself a glass of water at the bar,

said softly. “Aunt Cloud brought me

at the spare keycard in

took a deep breath. This was not

this was Kate’s private space. If any commotion happened here, people would rush

smiled and tried to act softer as she approached

“Can we talk?”

Cordelia

there to talk about between

too strong, and Cordelia stepped

you’ve always been

agreement long ago. Ever since I can remember, I knew that I would marry him

arrogance she always exuded dimmed a little. She looked more like someone

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