My Substitute Wife Is a Bigwig (Lily and Loid)

Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Lily went upstairs and took out her phone, which had been turned off for a few days. As soon as she turned it on, a call came through

“Finally, you answered the phone! Alchos is almost under siege!” The voice on the other end was very agitated.

If Loid and the others were around, they would recognize that the caller was Elliot Quade, the director of Alchos.

Lily moved the phone away from her ear with a frown. “Send me the details on the person who offered a hundred million dollars for shadowbane last time.”

Elliot was stunned for a moment. He had expected her to be furious, but she was quite calm.

After a moment of silence, he asked, “Are you willing to take the job?”

Lily pulled out a chair and sat down. She rested her head on her hand, feeling defeated. She had planned to take a year off to focus on investigating Jason’s affairs.

Sighing, she said, “Yes.”

she added, “I’ll take one job a

finally breathed a sigh of relief, his tone becoming cheerful “Til send you the information right

“I’m hanging up.”

quick. When Lily hung up, she received a message on her phone. She opened the information and narrowed her eyes.

tune, she hadn’t connected it to Loid. Many people sought out Shadowbane every

day Elliot called, she wasn’t in a good mood and didn’t bother asking who placed the

should reclaim the hundred million dollars. Her eyes gleamed as she got up and turned on her laptop. Her fingers moved swiftly over the keyboard, and lines of code appeared on

Loid. “Loid, do you have a grudge

the couch with a straight face and his eyes half–closed it made people want to keep their distance.

feelings for you, she clearly would’ve cured you, but she’s keeping you hanging by a thread,” Shaun said,

her out. And isn’t she just a girl from the countryside? She grew up without her parents and only a grandmother. How does she

skilled in medicine to

chin, his

said she used something called the antitoxin shots. Apparently, the technique is from an

hear that. He immediately

is kept by the state doesn’t mean no one else has seen it. Maybe some

shifted sightly, flicking the ash from his cigarette. He

how to

slapped the table and stood up excitedly, “Yes! How did I not think of that? She

apprentice. That must be it. That’s the only way