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Personal servant

Author: Ace
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-18 21:16:39

CHAPTER THIRTY SIX

ZOEY

“If you’re here to thank me, then you can turn around and leave, because I didn’t do it for you, I did what I felt was right,” Alpha Graham said, rendering me speechless.

I had indeed come to thank him for, should I say, standing up for me? But he took the words right out of my mouth and now I didn’t know what else to say.

I swallowed, and stubbornly proceeded, “Thank you for doing what’s right.”

He looked up and I could see a faint smile on his face but he tried to hide it, “You really don’t listen, do you?” He rested his hand on his desk and leaned his head on it. “This conversation is over.”

“I just love showing appreciation, and repaying kindness.” I said seriously, ignoring his warnings. I didn’t like feeling indebted to people as it made me feel like I belonged to them. He gave me a place to stay in excavation for helping his mother, we were even in that aspect. But he stood up for me, even when he shouldn’t have.

“Hmm,” he hummed as he tilted his head to
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