The Richest Man in Metropolis is My Backer by Dream Searcher

Chapter 69

Could

of the Kenways need a blood source for their own rare blood type?

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My experiences growing up taught me much about human cruelty and underhanded schemes. Even my own family had no qualms about exploiting me.

As such, how could someone who wasn’t even a friend or family member suddenly be so kind to me?

And to think, I had believed I was lucky to have met good people.

Lisbeth’s cryptic words from a few days ago only deepened my suspicion that the Kenways had ulterior motives in approaching me..

Then there was Edward, who had warned me about them. Maybe he knew something I didn’t.

Fear and anxiety chummed within me.

How had Imanaged to visit their residence alone so many times? It was isolated, in the middle of nowhere, and so vast it would be easy to get lost.

ever decided to harm me, I’d have nowhere to

must have been because my mother and

couldn’t help but

Soren, all reason had abandoned me. I was acting like a lovesick fool, indulging in endless fantasies about

Yeah, special in a

if this had been a honeypot scheme all

was awake now. The fantasies had died.

focus on something else–how to distance myself from the

them their

them? Or pass the work on to another designer?

mess when

was calling me.

thrill I might have felt before, all I felt now was sheer

told myself to calm

Kenways and figure out a way to create distance

a deep breath, steeled myself, and answered the call, Hello, Mr.

Π

began, using my name again. “Are you free

most

I’m afraid I can’t. My sister’s cancer has gotten worse My father called and asked me to visit the hospital