Chapter 146:

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As Caden began the countdown, Alicia felt the pressure hit her hard.

She quickly covered her watch with her hand, her cheeks flushed from the heat. “Three seconds? Really? For something this big, you should give me at least three days.”

Caden raised an eyebrow and calmly pulled his hand away. “I have the proof. If you want it, you'll have to play by my rules.”

He looked at his watch again. “And now, your time is up.”

Alicia tried to steer the conversation back. “How do I know you actually have the evidence? Let me see it.” Caden saw through his attempt immediately. “You just want to confirm it so you can track it down somewhere else, right?”

Alice was speechless.

I had forgotten how sharp it was.

"Ugh, it's the devil!" he groaned himself.

Caden saw the frustration on her face and could tell she was silently cursing him. That seemed to only lift her spirits.

The whole situation seemed strangely amusing to him.

“I work non-stop at the company every day, and just like that, $300 million of my money disappears. I gave it away to buy evidence that has nothing to do with me. After all that, I still come back here to keep you satisfied, squeezing every minute out of my day. And you, Miss Bennett, what exactly have you done?”

Alicia was caught off guard by his sudden change in tone. He made it sound like she'd been working like a slave, but hearing those words from him was oddly irritating. Caden wasn't done. “The day I had dinner with Randolph, I didn't touch a single morsel of food. When I asked you about dinner, my stomach was completely empty. I was starving. And where were you? “Curled up with your ex-husband.”

Alice twisted her lips. “‘Curled up’? That’s ridiculous.”

“But you didn't deny it at the time,” Caden replied softly.

This time, she was speechless.

unreasonable as Caden only led

barely get a word

went, he always found a

Alicia wasn't going to let him distract her. She gritted her teeth and said, “Let’s renegotiate how

and in

changed it last time,

Shouldn’t it be my turn to make

Alice was speechless again.

Caden seized the moment.

my turn, I think twenty times

sat down and turned

sound of

disbelief, and she quickly interrupted. “What? No.

reaction. “So, are we

five days off

It was too much.

her completely exhausted. If this kept up, she was sure she wouldn't last much longer. For the sake of her own sanity, she protested, "This has to

who wrote 'ten'

that something was wrong. “No, that doesn't

that's wrong is you,” Caden said, sliding his chair closer as he pointed at the

catch you. In the heat of the moment, you typed 'ten times.'" He was about to say something else when Alice

harshly, “Stop saying that! “You were the

scent of her hand

away from her. Instead, he exhaled softly into her palm. “There are just the two of us here. Why

tingling sensation in her hand and quickly pulled it away, scratching the itch. “If the cockroaches hear you, they might get ideas and

silent, thinking to

better at

a bad idea. Meanwhile, Alice refused to give up, trying by all means to negotiate the figure

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