Chapter 407

Cornelia was at a loss for words.

Marcus went on, “At least, I haven’t encountered such a thing up to now.”

Cornelia could understand. After all, he was born into a wealthy family, with more dough than he could ever spend. He was able to do whatever he fancied. It’d be hard for anything to rain on his parade.

The matter with Skyler was temporarily put to bed. In the following days, Cornelia threw herself into work. She was swamped, barely even having time to catch some sleep, let alone chat with Jeremy.

In a blink of an eye, a month had passed and spring was around the corner. All their work in Paris was done and dusted, and the team was gearing up to head back to Riverton.

for booking the return flights and opted for a red–eye. The non–stop flight from Paris to Riverton was a twelve–hour haul. Landing around 6 in the evening local time,

off, Cornelia shot Jeremy a message: [Jeremy, I’m heading

checked the clock. It was a little past eleven at night in Paris, which made it early morning back home. Jeremy should’ve been out cold, likely

next second, the man who should’ve been in dreamland got back

[Are you still up, or did you wake up already?]

replied: [I’m still

another reason you’re up? Whatever the reason, you shouldn’t pull an all–nighter. It’s no good

to Marcus who was right next to her, simply because she was too engrossed in her chat

had to travel overseas for work, which would result

rubbed her face, then asked: [So when are

Riverton with you.” Marcus wanted to

up the courage to come clean about his identity.

only replying: [I’ve been up to my ears in work recently, so I probably won’t be back

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