Chapter 1332:


    Right as she finished talking, a voice rang out from behind her.


    It sounded clear and familiar, filled with surprise and respect.


    “Ms. Watson, my dear mentor!”


    A jolt of surprise shot through Maia. She turned slowly to find Alice charging toward her, arms waving enthusiastically.


    “What brings you here?” Maia asked, managing a strained smile as she stood to greet her properly.


    Maia had never officially epted Alice as a student, but Alice behaved as though it were already settled. And she had just called Maia “mentor” loud enough for everyone to hear.


    When Ss heard how Alice addressed Maia, his eyebrow shot up. A mocking sneer crossed his face.


    So the woman who had been sitting beside him was supposedly Maia’s student. The revtion caught him off guard. He thought this might be fate.


    Without wasting time, Ss grabbed his phone and sent Raegan a message about his discovery.


    A devious scheme began forming in his mind. He would exploit the woman’s status as “Maia’s apprentice” to create discord.


    While Alice kept up her animated conversation with Maia, Raegan finally entered Kiley’s second-floor lounge.


    The scene that greeted her was one of disarray: broken porcin scattered across the floor and the dressing table inplete disorder.


    Kiley sat in the chair facing the mirror, her eyes closed, her features clouded by a dark expression.


    Raegan swallowed nervously. She had never seen Kiley in such a furious state.


    She knew Mariana had a tendency to smash things in anger, but she never imagined that Kiley, who usually kept herposure, shared this destructive impulse. Apparently, a fiery temper ran in the Cooper family.


    These thoughts upied Raegan as she crept closer on tiptoe. Without warning, Kiley’s cold voice cut through the silence.


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    “Are you aware of the humiliation I endured on that stage?” Her eyes opened gradually as she finished speaking, and she turned to face Raegan. “After all our nning, what happened? Instead of tearing Maia down, we ended up confirming her aplishments. We set out to be her enemies, but we’ve turned into her helpers. Tell me, can you imagine anything more absurd? Maia yed us for fools.”


    Ice filled Kiley’s gaze, and her voice carried the chill of a winter evening. “Raegan, your actions today have nted seeds of suspicion in my mind.”


    She spun the chair around abruptly, raising the handgun she had been holding—a substantial Desert Eagle, fitted with a silencer.


    Raegan froze, thrusting her hands into the air. “Kiley, what are you doing?”


    Kiley stared at her with intense, grave focus. “What am I doing? Raegan, this pretense needs to stop. When did you first appear at my side? Right when Maia walked out of prison! Do coincidences like that really exist?”


    A mixture of pain and disillusionment colored her next words. “You belong to that mysterious organization backing Maia, don’t you? That exins everything. Today’s failure happened because you sabotaged our n.”


    A flicker of surprise passed through Raegan. Her initial panic stemmed from thinking Kiley had uncovered her membership in The Mask, but it turned out that Kiley had drawnpletely wrong conclusions. Relief washed over her as she understood Kiley’s actual suspicion.


    “Kiley, my feelings for you are no secret,” she said, letting a pause hang in the air to project deep hurt before continuing. “The thought that you could see me this way never crossed my mind. If you’re convinced I betrayed you, then pull the trigger.”


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