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    Romina pretended to be calm and casually made up an excuse. “I was busy at the wellness clinic until veryte that day, so I didn’te home.”


    “Really?” Elliana followed her curiously and asked, “I thought you were with Joaquin! That’s why I didn’t dare disturb you that night. So you weren’t with him after all?”


    Romina instinctively shook her head. “No, why would I be with him?”


    “You’re acting strange…” Elliana’s gaze lingered on Romina. “I really feel like something’s off with you.”


    “What’s strange about me?” Romina quickly headed upstairs. “You’re overthinking it.”


    Elliana was about to say more, but Romina had already hurried back to her room.


    After closing the door, Romina’s heart was pounding wildly, impossible to calm down.


    Before falling asleep, Elliana’s words from earlier kept reying in her mind.


    After much thought, she decided to send Joaquin a message.


    She opened her secondary SIM card and quicklyposed a text to Joaquin.


    “Mr. Bowman, the day after tomorrow is the recording for the show. Have youe up with a n for me?”


    Two minutester, her phone chimed.


    Joaquin sent her a string of numbers, followed by a message.


    “This is the phone number for the Antique Appraisal Show. You can expose her over the phone. If it’s inconvenient to reveal your identity or your voice isn’t suitable, you can have someone else speak for you.”


    Seeing these words, Romina couldn’t help but smile slightly.


    Exposing her over the phone was indeed the most suitable method.


    Phone numbers for shows like this are usually not made public. If she had to rely on her own


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    efforts, she might not have been able to get it done,


    She might have been stuck at the very first step, but for Joaquin, it was an extremely simple


    matter.


    He held such a high position in Strnd and had extensive connections; getting a phone number was no trouble at all.


    “Alright, thank you. Once it’s done, I will fulfill my promise and repair the pendant for you.”


    “Just focus on exposing her over the phone. Leave me an address, and after the show is recorded, the quartz hairpin will be delivered to the specified location for you.”


    Reading this line, Romina suddenly fell into deep thought.


    The quartz hairpin couldn’t be sent to Breeze Vista, nor to the wellness clinic.


    For this matter, it seemed only Elliana could help her.


    Romina decided to sleep for the night and send him the address after confirming it tomorrow.


    Early the next morning, Elliana got an address from a friend and even found a voice changer for Romina in advance.


    With this, she no longer had to worry about her identity being exposed.


    If all went well, Joaquin would probably be watching the show too, so she had to make sure nothing went wrong.


    Today was Hayden’s follow–up appointment. After finishing work in the evening, she headed to the Bowman’s mansion.


    As soon as she entered the living room, she saw Lenora and Jericho sitting on the sofa.


    Both of them looked especially serious, and the way they looked at her was slightly different from usual.


    “Ms. Sandoval, Sir Bowman is waiting for you on the third floor.”


    “Alright.”


    As the butler led Romina upstairs, Jericho followed behind, all the way to Hayden’s room door.


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    “No unauthorized people allowed inside.”


    Romina nced at the man, then closed the door.


    From outside the door, Jericho’s grumbling voice could be heard. “Romina, what nonsense are you talking about? Am I unauthorized?”


    Romina ignored him and quickly began Hayden’s treatment.


    After the treatment ended, Romina heard the sound of an engine downstairs.


    It sounded just like Joaquin’s car…


    Opening the door, Romina saw Jericho standing outside, his expression unusually indifferent as he looked at her.


    The next moment, Jericho stepped forward, grabbed her arm, and pulled her toward the second floor.


    “What are you doing? Let go of me!”


    Afraid of disturbing Hayden, Romina deliberately lowered her voice.


    Jericho said nothing, simply dragging her into the adjacent bedroom.


    At that moment, on the first floor.


    Joaquin nced at the Porsche parked at the entrance, then strode inside.


    Seeing the butler approaching, he looked up and asked, “Is Ms. Sandoval still treating Sir Bowman?”


    “The treatment is finished. I think she’s in one of the rooms on the second floor…”


    Joaquin instinctively looked toward the second floor, then strode upstairs.


    Joaquin had just reached the doorway when he heard the sound of a heated argumenting from Jericho’s room.


    He quickly returned to his own room and went straight to the balcony.


    In the adjacent bedroom.


    Jericho looked at Romina with a cold expression. “Are you and Joaquin involved in some ambiguous rtionship?”


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