Chapter 17

My eyes have been spinning for a while. He talks a lot about the things he did.

"Maybe you have special training? You speak well." I cut him off.

"You are the girl I know; you are ugly," he said to me.

My eyeball rolled again.

"What's the reason why you have to pretend? Are you really an expert in pretending?” I asked him again.

I crossed my arms when I saw that he was about to speak.

"I don't know what to do to meet you. I also begged Raven, but even she refused me," he began.

"You've been saying that for a while, and that's not what I want to hear," I said, raising my eyebrows.

"Yes, Meriam likes me. From the first meeting, it was obvious to me that he had an agenda."

FLASHBACK

The first gathering is a big gathering with the country's big businessmen. While we were at the table assigned to us, various businessmen approached.

Daddy accompanied Cheska to the comfort room because he said she might get lost or meet someone and become clumsy. Cheska wears an elegant but too-revealing dre