Under the heiress facade

"No," Bernard immediately denied. "Look, you were able to spot these small issues, which shows how skilled you are. Even your mentor might not have noticed them." When hackers competed, they wouldn't notice if their opponent was going easy on them. Everyone was just focused on finding loopholes and invading.

"Stop with your sweet talk. You're just looking down on me and going easy on me." Hera read his code.

But Bernard's code was better than hers. It was undeniable that she wouldn't have won if he hadn't gone easy on her.

The more he acted this way, the more her anger burned. She even suspected...

"Did you intentionally lose for the Eclipse Stone?" Hera stood up and shoved the laptop back to Bernard, glaring at him.

Bernard's heart sank. He had hoped that letting Hera win would be enough to quell her frustration. He didn't expect her to connect this with the Eclipse Stone.

"Yes, we entered the same price back then," he admitted.

Just as she had suspected! Anger flared within Hera. Bernard had been toying with her from the beginning.

advantage of my identity to deceive you into doing things for me... But it's because you said our relationship would be over once I cured your illness.

trickery? He was basically deceiving her for money

to control her anger and nodded. "Is

guilty and uncomfortable seeing her like this. He didn't want to deceit her

his silence, she thought he was unwilling to speak and said, "If you don't want to tell me, then..."

shocked. Didn't the XS Corporation have a strong rivalry with Killian Corporation? She knew Bernard didn't like the

Chad found out, Bernard would be chased out by the Killians!

they flew to Lumiville with XS Corporation's plane. How had she not thought of

at Shuttle Ventures? I don't usually work

l.n

a trap

sank.

you jealous when I had