The Woman From Hell

Chapter 1976



It was late at night when we got back to the villa.

Nicky seemed to have been waiting for me in the living room for a long time, and when she saw me coming in, she got up.

I glanced at her before going upstairs.

Obviously, Nicky stopped me. "Wait."

Turning my head, I looked at her calmly with my brow raised slightly. "What is it?"

She approached me step by step. "Have you made it clear to Tyler?"

There was a trace of doubt in her eyes. I did not understand what she was trying to say. "What did you think I told him?"

Nicky shed all pretenses and said to me, "There'll be no more people breaking into our house in the middle of the night, yes?"

will expose your true colors again? It's not as if

Nicky anymore. I wanted to get rid of her and go upstairs, but she still came up to me and held me back. "What do you mean?

at her and iterated every word clearly, "You should have thought that there would be such consequences from the moment you released the news. I'm not them. I have no way of knowing what they'll do next. If you're worried,

unease filling her face. Her eyelids drooped slightly as she muttered, "Theo already asked me so many

wonder

few times, and

The next day.

news from last night would inevitably set off rumors. Even if Nicky had ordered the company not to discuss it

went out to lunch

department, and they looked at me with sympathy in their eyes.

always thought she was a noble type.

Wanda's identity, but she's even preventing us from publicizing it. She's even threatening us

feel sorry for you, but

is only listening to

find a job if

rumor were to spread."

difficulties, which was why I did not take it to