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.

they ever decided to harm me,

only reason I was still alive must have been because my

help but laugh at

was acting like a lovesick fool, indulging in endless fantasies about him noticing me

in a way I’d

this had been a

awake now. The

focus on something else–how to distance myself from the Kenways.

still owed them

pass the

a tangled mess

was calling

all I felt now was sheer panic. I was too scared

and told myself

to explain things to the Kenways and figure out a way to create distance without offendin powerful family

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

Π

using my name again. “Are you free tomorrow? I’d love to

most

I’m afraid I can’t. My sister’s cancer has gotten worse My father called