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Chapter 25

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last update Last Updated: 2023-08-24 19:22:15

Camille felt her blood run cold. Indeed, she shouldn’t have underestimated Christian’s multiple sources of information. He knew everything that went on. He was meticulous like that.

She wouldn’t even be surprised if he had sent someone to track her every move. He had done it several times before. He probably even knew that she was aware of it, but kept doing it anyway because it was fun.

‘Sadistic bastard.’

If she could name one of the things that Christian Callahan loathed the most, it was a betrayal. He wanted everyone under him to follow his orders and not question them. If they opposed, their lives were doomed.

So when it came to punishments, he had no qualms about giving them out.

Just like his father.

“I am right, aren’t I?” he said. “It was him that you met earlier, the ‘old friend’ that you mentioned.”

She should’ve known.

He had been behaving suspiciously, after all. She had suspected it the moment he made her take the afternoon off, saying that he had an important confidenti
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