CHAPTER 116

“Can I have your number, please?” Aman approached Veronica and asked for her phone number, but she turned away from him. “Excuse me, miss.” he asked again.

“You are excused,” she replied.

“Geez,” he shook his head and walked away.

“Hmph, every Tom, Dick, and Harry wants my number these days,” she murmured to herself and then walked up to a waiter. His handsome features struck her ego at once. Tall and charming, especially with the long ponytail he had. His thick eyebrows were an added attraction. If only he wasn’t a mere waiter, she wouldn’t mind asking him out on a date, she thought. “What’s with that ponytail?” she still ended up starting a conversation with him.

“It’s a wig, ma’am.”

“Eh?” she was shocked. “I should have known. What do you do by the way, other than serving drinks, I mean.” “I follow people from the shadows,” he replied with a blank expression.

“You mean…” she observed his expression. “Stalking?”

“Something like that,” he said, maintaining the poker face.

Veronica paused for a second and then ended up chuckling a little. “Haha, that was a good joke. What’s your name? I’m Veronica, by the way. Veronica Sterling.’

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Veronica. You can call me Shadow,” he said as he offered her a glass of Electric Blue.

her eyes while taking the glass.

faintly smiled in return.

a loud voice startled everyone. When heads turned toward the source of the sound, they realized that the voice belonged to none other than Artur Bonsbell. And then they couldn’t help but notice the flying drone carrying a big-ass box,

box landed in a loud thud, but nothing happened. Many people stopped running, and those who never ran

leather. The word ‘W’could

both Jacob and Elizabeth stepped forward. They had seen this

care of it, Jacob got there and took a closer

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he began to unbuckle the belts that sealed

his head and looked extremely tense. “Doesn’t he fear death?” The

belts, the leather walls neatly fell to the four sides, revealing a top quality wooden box inside. A

around. “This isn’t a bomb, people. This is a box

prepared beforehand by Jacob? That’s how most people perceived it

his hand. “Come over here.

was no way a bomb could be inside, he thought. “You really are a special friend.” He patted Jacob’s shoulder, making him

wooden box. “Mm? How do we open this thing?” “You push the top at an angle, and it will

said, and the top of the box moved. He pushed

were warped really fast as a horrible smell intruded their nasal cavities and jolted their brains and took seize of their lungs. People covered their

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