Chapter 143

I spent a good amount of time comforting Stella, hoping she wouldn’t fret over me and accidentally harm the baby in her belly

After hanging up, my dislike for Bonnie hit a new high.

My hatred for Neil was burning like a wild fire.

I asked Halley to write a piece centered around the recording and send it to me for review.

Three days later, he sent me the draft.

Meanwhile, Russell messaged me that Bonnie’s surgery in Phenovia was temporarily postponed. She was returning home and would continue her regular check-ups and treatments at the hospital where she used to treat her heart condition.

As I was pondering over my next steps, Barbara called.

“Rena, I’m at a loss for words!” she sounded exasperated, “News of Bonnie’s heart condition is spreading like wildfire at Rosemont College. The school even organized a fundraiser, especially music department students, this is insane!*

“A fundraiser? She’s got Neil, why would she need a fundraiser?’ I sneered.

“People are saying she and Neil are just friends, and Neil is the one pursuing her. She wouldn’t accept any financial support from Neil. Many people think she’s quite proud and those who criticized her before are now starting to feel sorry for her, Barbara replied.

Although Bonnie was cunning, she did care about dignity, otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many people willing to believe her.

In some ways, she was good at disguising herself, always able to make most people like her.

Unless Neil came forward to clarify, those rumors would be taken as truth by the public, and Bonnie’s bad reputation-would slowly fade away

She might even use her heart condition as an excuse for being with Neil, saying she was moved by Neil’s unwavering support.

forward to explain to

people don’t know the whole story, they only see the surface, so they’re

back to school to personally return the donations to help some poor but excellent

what a wolf in sheep’s clothing means.”

throw her a welcome party?” I spotted an

replied, “Definitely She’s popular because of Neil and her generous act of donating all the fundraising money to the school will certainly

a rough plan in

the next day, and to my surprise, Neil was not in the airport photo, but Kate and

medias attention on Bonnie was entirely because of Neil. Many female

online comments were quite

forced to accept Neil and has severe heart disease,

why would she need to raise

guys. I’ll share the guilt for the past misunderstandings about

speak highly of her. She can’t be

a poker face, closed the webpage, and switched on the recorder, checking the information

a call interrupted my work. It was Neil’s number, that strangely

to eagerly anticipate him giving me a call, just to have a chat, even if he didn’t

the bone, regretting my

a message popped up: [Im

he return home before Bonnie?

two words: [GET LOST].

block him, but another message came: [Don’t you want to know why I keep protecting

that I didn’t care about anything else

then what was it?

for lunch since he was at work. The house was empty. I changed my shoes and

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