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.

it was Everett who had added her first, but he never said anything

now this had

to calm down. Then she took out her phone, left the junior high school group, changed her online name from Dorothy to Lily, and replaced her

way, he wouldn’t know who she

room 1501 was booked by the company, and nothing could be

pulled up the quilt and went

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

this convertible bond project had dropped below the stop-loss line. The other party demanded to

so their investment department was fortunate to be in the light of the

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

soon. Don’t let him hear you.” Dorothy pulled Karen to one side. Before she could

It was Everett.

slightly furrowed, and his thin lips were tightly pursed. He

direction.

was always sharply defined, and nobly arrogant. His oppressive aura could make the surrounding air temperature

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