In the Lap of Luxury by Unsweetened Chestnuts

Chapter 14 We’re Sleeping Together

Larry gritted his teeth and called Grace over and over again. Each time, the operator informed him that the line was busy.

At one point, Benjamin grabbed his phone just as the call connected.

“What is wrong with you? Larry, just tell Benjamin that he’s not attending the expo Grace snapped impatiently.

this

year,”

The other end of the call was silent.

After a while, a deep voice sounded. “It’s me.”

Grace’s breath caught when she heard Benjamin.

He didn’t comment on what she said earlier. Instead, he asked, “Will we be able to join the expo if we increase the sponsorship to 500 million dollars?”

At that moment, Grace was sitting in Caleb’s luxury sports car. “Benjamin, what are you playing at?”

Seeing that she had been buried in work, Caleb had insisted on taking her out on a tour of the city. Grace hadn’t been able to talk him out of it and had relented.

“If 500 million dollars isn’t enough, then we’ll make it a billion dollars.

“And if that’s still not enough, then I’m afraid I’ll have to report this to the Global Chamber of Commerce and see what they say. Amirate isn’t the only organizer of the expo.”

“You…” Grace had no comeback for him.

Caleb, who was driving, got annoyed and took her phone from her.

are you being so relentless? You’re already divorced from

get her back? Fat chance of that!

Grace’s astonishment, he hung up the call

“Sleeping together?”

drive him

way,

we’re

was gloomy when he put down the

happened. He muttered, “Ms. Lewis was the one

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she even get that post at Amirate Corporation? I’ve heard that it’s really hard to get

same questions. It didn’t make

two plane tickets for Darai,” he

remember correctly, the president of the Global Chamber of

right, Mr. Hawkins. Donald Donegan won the election

that we’ll

Donegan was Donald’s only son and the sole heir of

well–known playboy and often had an

around.

of the few

abroad, they didn’t contact each

leaving for Darai, Benjamin went back to Hawkins

as he stepped over the threshold, he saw some

elevator.

“Benjamin, you …”

Before the two people on the couch had the

straight toward the bedroom on the third

was unrecognizable now. Everything, from the curtains to the bedsheets, had been changed. The