Chapter 2

In the wee hours, Dorothy woke up. The man beside her was still deep in sleep, his strong arm wrapped around her completely. His steady breathing tickled her neck.

Her last bit of drunkenness had completely faded away due to the aching and numbness between her legs, and so had her reason.

What the hell had she done?

She had actually slept with her boss?!

Dorothy’s breath hitched. She carefully extricated herself from his arms and hurriedly got out of bed, dressed up, packed her stuff, and bolted from room 1501, heading for the hotel reception to book another room.

It was when she was paying with her phone that she realized that it wasn’t Karen’s contact she had asked for last night.

That was clearly Everett’s contact.

Years ago, at a junior high school reunion, the class monitor created a WhatsApp group, and everyone added each other as friends.

had added her first, but

now this had

the junior high school group, changed her online name from Dorothy to

know who

all, room 1501 was booked by the company, and

pulled up

next morning. Today, Dorothy had to accompany her manager, Percy, to Harmony Ventures to discuss the issue

of this convertible bond project had dropped below the stop-loss line. The other

in the light of the president and

hotel lobby with her documents. Not long after, Karen came down, mumbling unhappily. “Mr. Percy insisted that we, the Prosperity Consortium, were not the ones to add more investments. But when I went to the trust company to adjust the agreement,

Don’t let him hear you.” Dorothy pulled Karen to one side. Before she could say anything, she saw a tall

It was Everett.

from last night and was now in a black suit that fit him perfectly. His thick eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and his thin lips were tightly pursed. He seemed to be listening to a report from his secretary,

direction.

face was always sharply defined, and nobly arrogant. His oppressive

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