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, I’d

was still alive must have been because my mother and grandfather were protecting me

but

pragmatic and cautious, yet ever since meeting Soren, all reason had abandoned me. I was acting like a lovesick fool, indulging

Yeah, special in a way I’d

this had been a

was awake now. The fantasies had died.

something else–how to distance myself from the Kenways.

them

pass the work on

tangled mess when my phone

calling me.

thrill I might have felt before, all I felt now was sheer panic. I was too scared to even

gulped and told myself to calm

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

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

Π

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

most

My sister’s cancer has gotten worse My father