Rejected No More: I Am Way Out Of Your League, Darling!

Chapter 880:

Cedric shut his eyes briefly, already regretting listening for this long. His subordinate had zero ambition.

The voice messages kept rolling in.

He glanced at Daniela again. She was still sprawled on the sofa, completely absorbed in her phone. Gunfire and explosions crackled from the speakers. Cedric noticed that Daniela seemed to have a particular fondness for shooting games.

His subordinate’s voice came through again. “Cedric, you’re a genius. You knew those mercenaries would stop at nothing to get to you, so you hired Cealmaur ahead of time. That’s some next-level planning.”

Cedric typed back, “No. I didn’t hire them.”

A second later, his screen flooded with a stream of question marks.

“Then explain why Shadow is here. And more than that—I heard Cealmaur’s leader, Clarinda, just publicly announced that you’re under her protection. Clarinda never gets involved in bounty orders. She only takes paid assignments. For her to make a statement like that… Cedric, don’t even try to tell me there’s no story behind this, because I won’t buy it.”

Cedric looked completely dumbfounded. “Who did you just say is protecting me?”

The boss

at his

way! Cedric, don’t tell me you seriously had

the previous leader, he had barely touched its operations, steering the group towards legitimate business instead. When he heard about the underground bounty order, his first instinct had been to resolve it the easy way—by throwing money at

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for Clarinda to personally declare her protection over him? It was beyond

a woman. You’re a good-looking guy. Maybe she’s got a thing

only one woman for me. No matter how impressive Clarinda might be, I’d never be interested in anyone but my wife. Now, stop wasting time and figure out what’s going on. Also, check Cealmaur’s protection fees. I’ll pay them the market

their entire base has mobilized.

was too stunned to even

deep sigh, he turned to Daniela

her game, Daniela barely reacted.

Cedric said, his

muttered, her focus still locked