Chapter 429
“Hey…”
Hesper did not see that someone was coming toward her, so she bumped into him. When she heard the grunt from that person, she took a step back and said, “I’m so sorry about that…”
“Ms. Rivera?”
A familiar voice rang out above her, prompting Hesper to raise her head. She saw someone who she did not expect to see at all.
“Seth?”
Leaning on the door, Seth frowned after he confirmed that the woman in front of him was Hesper. “What are you doing here? I thought you were in Emperion? Why did you come to Fredonia, and why do you want to learn kickboxing?”
Hesper’s wildest dreams would she have thought she would run into Seth there. After the initial shock ebbed away, she suddenly realized something. “How did you recognize me?”
She had changed her face. Seth had only seen her once, so how did he recognize her?
“Umm… It’s because of your smell,” Seth said flatly. “I have a sensitive sense of smell. I didn’t see your face either. I just recognized you through your body scent.”
Hesper did not expect that her body scent would sell her out one day. But she did not even use her usual perfume or laundry detergent, so what kind of scent was he talking about?
“I’m sorry, if I had known from the beginning that the student Roberto mentioned was you, I wouldn’t have taken the job,” Seth said as he stepped back a couple of steps to keep his distance away from Hesper. “It’s dangerous here, Why didn’t you stay in Emperion, Ms. Rivera?
It seemed to Hesper that Seth did not know what had happened recently.
“Nothing. Just some things happened, and now I’ve been studying abroad in Fredonia recently,” Hesper said. Then, she realized something. “You said it’s dangerous here. Do you know something?”
Seth shook his head and replied matter-of-factly, “Antellon is a high-crime city. Didn’t a murder case occur in the downtown area a few days ago?”
“Alright…” Hesper carefully observed Seth’s expression, but she could not detect anything unusual, so she had to give up in the end.
“Why don’t you want to take up the job? Do you hate me?”
Seth was stumped for a moment, for he found it difficult to answer the question. After a short while, he shook his head and replied, “Not really.”
‘That means he hates me.’
In fact, Hesper had noticed Seth’s slight hostility when they met for the first time. Therefore, she pressed on and asked, “Why do you hate me? Is it because I’m Nathaniel’s fiancee?”
Seth fell silent.
Seriously?
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