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?”

fists

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. Naturally, Nelly would be indignant if Cordelia was not embarrassed

poured herself a glass of water

differently,” Cordelia said softly. “Aunt Cloud

looked at the spare keycard in

was not

surveillance camera in the room, and this was Kate’s

and tried to act softer

“Can we talk?”

Cordelia furrowed

talk about between us aside from

perfume was a little too strong, and Cordelia stepped

know that you’ve always been

since I can remember, I knew that I would marry him in the future. I’ve always seen him as my only man all these years

dimmed a little. She looked more like someone devoted, whose love was

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