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.
eyes while taking the glass. “That can’t be your real
smiled
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, hovering
box landed in a loud thud, but nothing happened. Many people stopped running,
this package wrapped up in pristine, brown leather. The word
forward. They had seen this happen before. Not just those two but Rebecca also did during
of it, Jacob got there and took
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were filled with anticipation as he began to unbuckle the
on his head and looked extremely tense. “Doesn’t
walls neatly fell to the four sides, revealing a top quality wooden box inside. A four-foot-tall and
“This isn’t a bomb, people. This is a box
Everyone was shocked. Was it a gift prepared beforehand by Jacob? That’s how most people perceived it at the moment, except for
Langdon and waved his hand. “Come over here.
next to the box, there was no way a bomb could
the wooden box. “Mm? How
she said, and the top of the box moved. He
as a horrible smell intruded their nasal cavities and jolted their brains and took seize of their lungs. People covered their noses and
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