The Author's POV

Chapter 199

Late night.

After returning from her short shopping trip, Emma laid down on her mattress exhausted. With her short brown hair scattered on the bed, Emma scrolled through her phone.

Thinking of something, Emma opened her bank account and checked her balance.

[Account balance : 7,472,060 U]

Seeing the number, Emma ground her teeth and muttered.

"...what a pig"

During her small trip, she had planned on only spending at most 100,000 U. She had not expected herself to fork out 750,000U. This was way beyond the budget she had set herself. In fact, spending 100,000 was already too much for her at the moment.

Normally, she wouldn't have minded.

...but her current circumstances weren't normal.

Looking at how much money she had in her bank account Emma felt bitter.

"How long will this last me..."

She truly regretted betting with Ren. Had she not bet, none of this would've happened.

-Ring!

At that moment, Emma's phone rang.

Checking who the sender was, Emma's face darkened. It was her uncle.

[Hello Emma, how was your day?]

Clenching her teeth, Emma picked up the phone and replied.

[Everything is fine, thank you, uncle]

[That's great, but Emma...]

[Yes]

[Did you go out today?]

Seeing the message, Emma's face contorted to a frown.

'How is that any of your business'

Forcefully trying to calm herself down, she replied.

[Yes, with two of my friends]

Ren was definitely not her friend.

[That's good, but do you still have enough money? I hope you're still not mad at me for blocking your card. With your dad leaving all responsibilities to me, we have to take precautions]

"Bastard..."

At her father's mention, Emma felt truly enraged. Ever since her father caught wind of a secret plot that the Monolith was brewing in preparations to attack Ashton city, as its city mayor, her father had no other choice but to leave and prevent their plans.

This was four months ago.

Right now, with her father gone, her uncle was the one in charge of the family affairs.

He did not like Emma.

With Emma being the direct inheritor of her Roshfield family, her uncle was jealous. He too had a son. However, he was only ten years old.

Given how young he was, he did not stand a chance at inheriting the family's leading position. He was just like him, stuck in his brother's shadow.

How could he tolerate that?

the opportunity presented itself. Emma's uncle tried to do his best

the first things he did was block her card. With the excuse of Emma spending too much money on useless stuff, her uncle

her father gone she could only swallow this

her rage, Emma cut the

go to sleep now

her Uncle's reply, Emma threw her phone towards the other side

inside of

"...this fucker"

...

time, the room

Amanda carefully walked towards one of her drawers. Taking out a stuffed

teddy, Amanda nodded her head in satisfaction.

"..Haa"

the teddy on the drawer, tired, Amanda buried herself

be a regular day

as she hated crowds. However, with everything that had happened

It was fun.

Suddenly her phone rang.

-Ring! -Ring!

ID was Maxwell Benson, her

picked up

"Yes?"

listened to what he wanted to say, a look of understanding appeared on her face. A trace of

and the elders want to meet you next week. They have agreed to your proposal and

"I understand"

long periods of time, Maxwell kept the conversation short and

there anything else that you would

this is good for

I wish you good luck

"mhm"

her head, Amanda hung up the

-Tack!

opened her chat log with Melissa and clicked on a

on the screen was a card held by two pincers as mana was slowly injected into it.

Amanda contacted her dad and

father were, they would've never have agreed. However, since it

elders of the guild

doubt that they would've agreed, she was quite surprised by the fact that they had agreed to meet in a

wait as far as a

bit of thinking and realizing who the two people

that she was, there was no doubt that

other hand, there was Ren. Given how influential her parent's guild was, without a doubt that they knew a few things about him. Especially with regards to what had

a doubt the elders and her father wanted to meet him

rank at age

still shocked. Without a doubt, his talent

Huuu—

-Plack!

a deep breath, Amanda carefully put away her phone in her drawer and

her eyes, Amanda suddenly

getting to know him better, her impression of

with him had left a deep impression on

was an undercover bodyguard that her family had sent to protect her. But after confirming with her father and guild,

in him piqued a

Amanda realized that he was completely different from

it, but from what Amanda figured, he was not the merciless killer that she thought

was just like everyone else. Just a regular

at times, serious

sense. Recalling how proud he was about the clothes

It was frankly terrible.

so bad that Amanda

recalled the look of despair on Emma's face once he got six teddies in

first time Amanda saw Emma so depressed. The more she thought about it, the

"ku..."

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