Chapter 214
Author: Rex Magnus
last update2024-12-11 21:30:42

*****

Dorothy had been tasked with uncovering the connection between the Blackwood patriarch and Xavier.

She had carried out the mission, but in the heat of her desperation to help her boss, she had entirely forgotten to report her findings.

“You didn’t carry out the task?” Grace asked, her sharp tone cutting through Dorothy’s awkwardness.

Dorothy swallowed hard. “I… I did, boss,” she admitted, guilt written across her face.

“And?” Grace pressed, leaning forward.

“I…” Dorothy hesitated, then began recounting her findings about Xavier and the Blackwoods.

She described how Xavier had helped the elderly patriarch and how the old man later witnessed Xavier’s father being bullied.

Her report was startlingly accurate, capturing events with precision, save for a few vital omissions. And had Xavier been there, he would have been stunned—wondering if she had been there.

…..

For a moment after Dorothy was done, Grace couldn’t react, then dazedly;

“So… in other words, the villa was a
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