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Chapter 180

Author: Jay-Shine
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-22 18:57:48

"I'm sorry, Sir, but we haven't been able to find anything..." His assistant was saying.

"What do you mean by that?" Adrian barked into the phone. "You've been searching for months, and you still don't have anything to show for it!"

"I'm sorry, Sir, but we..."

"Just do your fucking job and don't call me unless you have something! You have one week, or I'll be finding another personal investigator and assistant. And you know what that means— you will be fired!"

Adrian threw his phone aside, ran angry fingers through his hair, and began to pace.

After a few minutes, he sat on the couch adjacent to the one his sister was lounging on. Their father, Charles, sat in the corner of the room, his face buried in an iPad.

The softness of the couch bothered him. In a minute, he stood again, and began to pace.

Betty quirked an eyebrow at him. "Trouble in paradise?"

Adrian scowled at her. "What paradise?"

Betty shrugged, and went back to flipping through the pages of her glossy fashion magazi
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Adrian is delusional egoist. Why does he want Ria back?! Just because he doesn’t want to lose her to Antonio?! So it is his ego, but not feelings for Ria.
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