Under the heiress facade

Chapter 271

Aside from thinking that Bernard feared s last few days

she’d ru

run away to leave him untreated, Hera couldn’t come up with any other reason for Bernard shadowing her like a prisoner for the

Bernard gazed at her intently. He wasn’t afraid that she might run away but was afraid she might disappear again.

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“Yes,” he said, confirming her assumption.

Hera was momentarily speechless.

“You can rest assured. I have medical ethics. I’ll take responsibility for you,” she said, then turned and entered the café,

“Douglas.”

Bernard looked at the driver’s seat, and Douglas immediately understood.

Led by the waiter, Hera was taken to a private room reserved by Leon. She knocked and entered.

Inside the room, only Leon was present. He was engrossed in a discussion on Cyber Web’s forum.

rampant recently about the UTA–224 hacking incident and the International Police’s bounty of

while another hotly debated topic was the identity of the

at this. Someone on the forum is speculating that 5 might have been your

computer screen toward Hera upon her

post’s contents but realized it was mere gossip. Most

Their fans, who typically didn’t get along, were now engaged in heated exchanges on

brewing, as though they were

“Raven is wanted, so obviously

“Vulcan is just copying 5 to shift the blame. How

They can even

rendered speechless.

She wondered if it was true and who the other person might be. S hadn’t responded

the time to

it?”

card from his

256MB microSD card, a relic from the era when phones had buttons. It had been

have the card reader?” she asked.

“Here‘

his bag and handed it

him. She inserted the SD card into the reader

over to Hera’s