Chapter 6

“Karen, it’s urgent. Super urgent! Can you somehow get Mr. Lopez’s phone number?”

Dorothy had deleted Everett’s contact. She even left the online group they shared, so the only person she could turn to now was Karen.

The voice on the other side was clearly still groggy from sleep. “Who?!”

“Everett.”

“If you’re sleepwalking, go back to sleep.”

“I don’t have time to explain. It’s really urgent!”

The project partner’s supervisor had signed the contract and left the country. She couldn’t possibly ask him to return just to sign another contract with her.

Karen sensed her seriousness, sat up in bed, and said, “I can’t get his number, but you can go find him in his room, right?”

Right!

Dorothy quickly hung up the phone, threw on a random piece of clothing, and ran towards the hotel’s presidential suite.

got to that floor, she was stopped right out

I need to see Mr. Lopez”

and

“No.”

was straightforward. “Then please

Just pass a message for me. Tell him Dorothy urgently needs to see him; he’ll definitely want to see me.” But the

as Dorothy was feeling defeated, a deep voice

“Let her in.”

Everett’s order, the secretary finally

standing by the window with a cup of black coffee,

at her lips. “Mr. Lopez, did you find a contract the

towards her. “Which day are you referring

was intense, causing Dorothy to

subject wouldn’t help, so she just

a text to the wrong person that night. I don’t remember anything after that. I’m really just

need a wife.” He suddenly interrupted her, so Dorothy

“What?”

as his eyes locked onto her

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