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Chapter 173 - A Strange Chat Group
Edward was exhausted. The only highlight of his day was meeting Scarlet in person for the first time and talking to her even though they barely exchanged any words. Alicia and her two hags were behaving more oddly than usual and Edward didn't know if that was a good or bad thing.
He reached his apartment and wanted to do nothing more than having a hot shower before he looked through the data dump that Elfie prepared for him. Just listening to the sheer volume of files Elfie found made Edward want to take back his word. He didn't want to sacrifice his sleeping hours sieving through millions of financial files to find something that looked suspicious. It was akin to grasping at straws when it came to finding something against Anastasia.
He didn't think that his day could get any weirder but he was proven wrong. While waiting for Elfie's call, Edward received a strange message. Alicia was up to one of her antics again by adding him to a group chat. If this was another one of those online university social groups, he was going to delete it.
To his shock and panic, Alicia added a familiar number to the new group. Edward wanted to curse when he realised that his phone number would be exposed and Scarlet would quickly realise he was Jedd77. It was too late to leave the group because Scarlet and Alicia had been chatting for a while now. Edward cursed and checked the history. Then he remembered something. He gave Scarlet his personal phone number, the one that only a few people like the agents he worked with, his father and Elfie had. The phone number that Alicia added into the strange chat group was a different phone number that Edward subscribed to for his university life and student cover. This was the number that he freely gave anyone because he knew he would be deleting it completely once he graduated, erasing the identity of Edward Bayon and returning to his spy life.
Feeling the tension pass, Edward felt as if he had lost ten years of his life from the scare. Now he understood why spies who fell in love usually left the service. It was difficult to keep a cool and collected head when it concerned the people they loved. An exception to this rule was his father. Edward both admired and hated his father for being a very cold man when he needed to be even if Edward's mother understood the situation. When Edward was much younger he remembered how his father would always prioritise his work over his family. For years, Edward would only hear stories about the man who was his father from his mother. If he didn't run away from home to try and track his father down at the age of ten, he would never know the man who was his father.
Becoming a child spy was something Edward decided to do because he wanted a way to be closer to the world's most important man in the intelligence department. He worked hard and discovered that he had a talent that he could exploit, making his father treat him a little more warmly even though Edward still did not have any special privileges when it came to working.
Now that Edward was benched, he was considering if he should continue living the life of a spy after helping Elfie out with Anastasia's mission. If they succeeded in what the a.d.u.l.ts failed to do, there would be no doubting about his future career path as a spy. However, Edward wasn't a fool. He couldn't deny that he had feelings for the second Wilde daughter even though she was very out of his league if he removed his spy identity. She was rich, talented and beautiful like a fairy that didn't belong to Earth. Edward didn't know how he could possibly make someone like Scarlet look his way.
Thankfully, Alicia was a witch who loved meddling in other people's business. This strange chat group was definitely another one of Alicia's matchmaking ploys and for once, he wasn't against the idea.
Edward: What's this group? @Alicia you better not be up to something funny again. I'll tell on you to the professor that you've been missing from his classes for more than three weeks and faking your attendance.
Alicia: No! I swear this is a group for friendly seniors like us to help Scarlet out. The poor girl is so lost and doesn't have friends other than us in the bridging program. She'd be thrown to a different course after the three months of bridging courses are over. Poor thing... so I thought we could still be here for her even after she completes her bridging program.
Mandy: No offence Edward but you could do with more social life. You're the only one permanently in New York so after the term breaks the rest of us will go back to our hometowns leaving lonely Scarlet all alone in this big city. As a senior, shouldn't you take care of her? You're both in the same state anyway.
Beatrice: @Edward if you dare quit this group chat or delete the app again I swear you're not going to have a group to team up with you for your next assignment!
The spy inhaled deeply to suppress the irritation building at the three-way attack of the hags. Although he knew many ways to take down people from inside out, there was absolutely nothing he could do to these three brutal hags. Edward ignored them and muted them while back reading Scarlet's messages. If it wasn't for Scarlet, this new group chat would have been utter hell. Thankfully, there was always a silver lining.
Scarlet: Why is the group chat's name Edarlet? What does that mean?
At the innocent question about the obvious ship name created by Alicia, the chat went dead silent. Edward didn't know how he should reply to the writer or if he should even attempt explaining it. Alicia was really shooting herself in the foot by doing such things. He wasn't going to offer his help this time and set the chat group to mute. After he showered, he was going to look through the files.
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