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.

she got to that floor, she was stopped right

I need to see

looked her up and down and asked sternly, “Do you

“No.”

straightforward.

pass a message for me. Tell him Dorothy urgently needs

as Dorothy was feeling defeated, a deep

“Let her in.”

order, the secretary

silk robe, standing by the window with a cup of black

fell on her, Dorothy awkwardly tugged at her lips. “Mr. Lopez, did you find a contract the other day?”

walked towards her. “Which day are you

was intense, causing Dorothy to instinctively

doing this on purpose. Changing the subject wouldn’t

night. I don’t

He suddenly interrupted her, so Dorothy didn’t

“What?”

marry me.” Everett moved closer as his eyes locked onto her stunned

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