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.

taking the glass.

smiled in return.

Bonsbell. And then they couldn’t help but notice the flying drone carrying

nothing happened. Many people stopped running, and those who never

package wrapped up in pristine, brown leather. The word ‘W’could

package, both Jacob and Elizabeth stepped forward. They had seen

them not to go closer and that a bomb disposoal squad would take care of it, Jacob got there and took a closer look.

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as he began to unbuckle the belts that sealed the

“Doesn’t he fear death?” The government officials next to him also

Jacob removed the belts, the leather walls neatly fell to the four sides, revealing a top quality wooden box inside. A four-foot-tall and

“This isn’t a bomb,

gift prepared beforehand by Jacob? That’s how

hand. “Come over here.

acted all cool. Given how Jacob was standing right next to the box, there was no way a bomb could be inside, he

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

did exactly what she said, and the top of the box moved. He pushed it with force, so

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

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