Chapter 129

There was hesitation at the other end of the line and a part of him began to worry.

“Yes….yes, I'm fine,” a frail voice finally answered, causing him to heave a sigh of relief.

It was still very early in the morning, so he was quite alarmed when he saw her call.

He had told her she was free to call him at any time, yet he felt troubled when he saw her call.

There was a brief pause from the other end of the line before she spoke again, “I couldn't sleep…I was scared.”

Ethan felt pity for her. He could tell that she was troubled. Her heart was thumping so loud that he could hear it over the phone.

“Did I do the right thing?” She asked him.

The intensity of her situation had begun to dawn on her.

Initially, all she wanted to do was to try to do the right thing. And it had seemed so easy at first when Ambassador Gerald had offered her a better position with a bigger salary, bonus, and other perks, as well as some money…“money for your troubles,” he had called it, even though it was more t