The Scorned Heiress's Hidden Empire (by Jade Quinn) novel Chapter 387

Chapter 387

Servers brought the dishes in one after another, and Winter realized Jimmy had ordered all her favorites.

Jimmy wasn’t only her graduate school advisor. When she was in elementary school, she and Skyla had become friends. Because Victor had never liked Skyla, Skyla often spent weekends at Jimmy’s house, and she would usually invite Winter along.

From that time on, Jimmy had always treated Winter well. Sometimes, Winter even felt that he treated her better than he treated Skyla.

He said it was because seeing her reminded him of her mother, his old classmate.

So after Winter and Skyla fell out, Jimmy had never taken sides. He treated Winter the same as before.

Winter used the serving utensils to place some food on his plate too.

“Have you not been sleeping well? You don’t look too good.”

“Do I?” Jimmy tightened his grip on his fork, and his gaze darkened slightly. “Maybe a little. I’ve had a project recently.”

“You should get some rest.” Winter ladled him a bowl of soup.

Jimmy glanced at her. “You eat too.”

Winter nodded.

For the rest of the meal, she and Jimmy chatted on and off, and the atmosphere was pleasant.

Then a message came in on Jimmy’s phone.

He tapped it open. It was from an unfamiliar number.

“Professor Freeman, I’ll leave your side of things to you. I’ve already made the rest of the arrangements.‘

Jimmy’s hand froze around his fork.

It was as if he could hear that stranger’s polite, refined voice through the words on the screen.

But that politeness was only a mask. Beneath it was something cold, dangerous, and cruel, like a snake flicking its tongue in the dark.

Jimmy couldn’t let anyone discover his secret.

It had taken too much for him to get to where he was now. He would never let anyone destroy it.

“Winnie.”

Winter was drinking her soup. When she heard Jimmy call her, she looked up and asked, “What is it, Professor?”

Suddenly, a silver chain with a round pendant dropped into her line of sight.

It swung in front of her in a steady rhythm, left and right, letting out a faint, delicate sound.

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