Chapter 99
“What are you doing here?”
“Why can’t I be here? Don’t you want me to be here?” Bonnie and Jim were standing side by side, and Ivor looked at them grimly
Bonnie instantly understood why he was so angry. He had been displeased when she had talked to Tim back then. He hadn’t been happy when she had shown up with Heath to play chess either.
Did he really think she would cheat on him?
In any case, she still needed to explain everything to him so he wouldn’t cause any further trouble.
“Don’t read too much into this.”
“Alright. I won’t. I have some questions for you. How long have you known him? Why have I never heard about this? You told me you knew someone from Ms. Bonita’s research institute. Is that
someone Master Jim?”
Ivor had endless questions for Bonnie. The more he got to know her, the more mysterious she became.
“That’s right. He was the person I was talking about. I met him a few years ago. I can’t remember exactly when, though.”
He was a little pleased to hear her explaining herself to him.
“I’m curious. How did you meet him?”
“What’s with all the questions? This is like a police interrogation.” Bonnie was overwhelmed.
“You can choose not to answer them.” Ivor stared at her firmly.
This was a pain. To be honest, Bonnie didn’t want to answer him, but she knew what Ivor was like. If she chose to be quiet, he would be okay with it, but he’d be annoyed as hell.
“Alright. I’ll talk. I met him at an underground fight.
“You’ve been to underground fights?” That surprised him a little.
“I used them to hone my combat skills when I had the time. There’s nothing surprising about that. I had an even match with Jim and we became close friends after that. But I probably can’t keep up with him anymore.”
It wasn’t that she was worse at combat than Jim. She had just thrown herself into her research. She had poured a lot of effort into it too. Now, she just thought of combat as a way to break herself out of monotony.
“You might be close friends, but did he really have to take you back home in the dead of night? He’s Ms. Bonita’s bodyguard, after all.” Ivor kept watching for Bonnie’s reactions.
Naturally, Ivor meant more than what he said.
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Jim stepped forward and said, “It’s really late, and she’s a woman. There’s no way I wouldn’t worry about her. Anyway, she saved my life. It’s only right that I keep her safe.”
“She saved you? You’re way stronger than her. How did she pull that off?” Ivor pressed.
“Back when I was still into underground fights, one of my opponents knew he couldn’t beat me in a fair match, so he got himself a set of brass knuckles and tried to sneak up on me. I ended up maiming
him
After that, he tried to get revenge on me by poisoning my drink and leading me to a quiet place to ambush me. If Bonnie hadn’t happened to pass by and fend them off, I would have died a long time ago,” Jim said, truthfully.
Brass Knuckles: A melee weapon made of four rings linked together that is worn on the fingers.)
