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?

Emma's uncle tried to do his best

things he did was block her card. With the excuse of Emma spending too much money on useless stuff, her uncle managed to convince the others to freeze her card

father gone she could only swallow this

rage, Emma cut the

understand uncle, do not worry about it. I have to go to sleep now as classes start early in

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

herself inside of her blankets, she

"...this fucker"

...

the

a stuffed teddy, Amanda carefully placed the teddy on top of

her head in satisfaction. She really liked the

"..Haa"

the teddy on the drawer,

seemed to be a regular day like any other turned out

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

It was fun.

Suddenly her phone rang.

-Ring! -Ring!

Maxwell Benson, her personal

picked up the

"Yes?"

what he wanted to say, a look of

you next week. They have agreed to your proposal and are expecting

"I understand"

long periods of time, Maxwell kept

else that

this is good

I wish you good luck

"mhm"

Amanda hung up

-Tack!

her phone, Amanda opened her chat log with Melissa and clicked on a specific

mana was slowly injected into it. Not long after, a

contacted her dad

never have agreed. However, since it was Amanda who proposed the deal, they agreed without asking

about. Her father and the elders

that they would've agreed, she was quite surprised by the

were, she had expected to even wait as far as a couple of

realizing who the two people in

was no doubt that her

doubt that they knew a few things about him.

the

rank at age

Without a doubt, his talent rivaled that of

Huuu—

-Plack!

breath, Amanda carefully put away her phone in her drawer and closed the

eyes, Amanda

getting to know him better, her impression

had

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

her interest in

that he was completely different from

figured, he was not the merciless killer that she thought he was in her first

everyone else. Just a

times, serious

something odd about him, it was his fashion sense. Recalling how proud he was about

It was frankly terrible.

bad that

on Emma's face once he got six teddies in

it, the more the corner of

"ku..."

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