Chapter 158: A Shy Marcus

Days quickly passed.

I have followed Carl and Lucas' suggestion to remain inside the haunted mansion. If there were matters that needed to be done outside, Carl would handle it for me. But since we already met Sister Nancy and I was only waiting for Jia's reply, there was not much happening here.

But it doesn't mean the eyes of the Capital would not be on me.

Wherever I go, there were eyes stuck behind me.

Marcus still watched me like a hawk.

I glared at him when I passed by where he was hiding and could not help but say,

"I don't know if you are being discreet or not. But you are disturbing me like this."

There was no use to hide anymore so Marcus stepped out from where he was hiding, "You only have three days left."

I rolled my eyes at him. He's not the only one doing the counting.

A week had passed by since the meeting with Sister Nancy. I haven't heard any news from Jia. But according to what Lucas replied to me through Carl, Jia had gone back to her hometown to look for it. If J