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“But there’s nothing I want to do…” mumbled Sunny.
Corinne raised her eyebrow. ‘He doesn’t look like he wants to leave, but there’s nothing for him to do here either.
Ugh, this is getting annoying! When are these people going to leave me alone?’
At that moment, Xante came back. She sat back down on the chair beside the bed. “Boss, what do you want to
have for lunch? I’ll get someone to deliver it to you.”
Seeing Xante had come back, Francine left to fetch hot water.
Corinne did not really have an appetite. She did not even finish her breakfast, so she was not in the mood to think
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtabout what to have for lunch.
“Let’s talk about it later,” she said with a wave of her hand.
Xante simply nodded and said nothing more.
Sunny thought Xante looked familiar, but it was only after Xante sat to talk to Corinne did he remember where he
met her before.
“It’s you!” he exclaimed, frowning.
Xante pushed up her gold-rimmed glasses. “Hello. Fancy meeting you here again,” she said with a smile.
Sunny remembered Xante to be the woman who offered him a ride to Eden International after the taxi he was in
broke down midway through tailing Corinne. However, not only did they fail to tail Corinne, but Xante actually
dropped him off at Eden International Spa Center instead of Eden International Entertainment Club where the World
Hacker Conference was held.
Incensed, Sunny decided to book another ride to the right Eden International when Xante pretended to pass out
from an asthma attack. Thus, he did not have a choice but to send her to the hospital, causing him to miss out on
the World Hacker Conference.
‘Now that I think about it, everything that happened then was too unlucky for them to be a coincidence,’ thought
Sunny.
Sunny looked at Xante, then back at Corinne as the realization dawned on him. “You two were in it together,
weren’t you?! The two of you were in cahoots to stop me from going to the World Hacker Conference.”
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmCorinne said nothing.
Xante pushed up her gold-rimmed glasses and said threateningly, “It’s best if you don’t know so much, kid.”
‘Who is she calling a kid?!’ thought Sunny.
“I’m not a kid anymore! I’m a full-grown adult!”
Xante narrowed her eyes and looked him up and down.
“Oh, really?” she asked mockingly.
Sunny could not stand having his ego bruised.
“How dare you look down on me like that? I’ll have you know I’m six feet tall! You got a problem with that?”
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