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chapter 8: perfect plan

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Xavier’s POV

I was angry.

No. Furious.

The kind of fury that didn’t explode, but it was there, boiling slowly and deadly like lava bubbling, waiting to erupt.

I clenched my jaw so hard, I feared it might actually crack from the pressure, but that was the least of my concerns. I continued to walk back and forth, staring blankly at the pristine and beautiful view of Abuja city. A view most men would kill for. A view I didn't even see right now.

Why the hell was I this mad?

I asked myself again, mentally going through my list of bad days.

Was it the idiot at the board meeting? Or the fact that there was a spy that has been tracing me for a while now, even spiking my drink on top. Or the three open embezzlement cases that were still waiting for my attention, but as I try to get close to the answer. I find myself in a dead end.

The proprietor was so smart and clever.

No.

It was her.

Caroline.

The woman who, for the first time in my life, had the nerve to insult me to my face, and not jus
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