In the Lap of Luxury by Unsweetened Chestnuts

Chapter 17 Welcome Dinner

“There’s no harm in a marriage of convenience as long as you don’t interfere with each other, “Benjamin said candidly.

“It’s no harm for you since all you want is profit. I’m not like you!

“I want to fall in love with my wife at first sight. She should be breathtakingly beautiful and incredibly smart. That’s the kind of woman I want to marry.”

Timothy waved a hand. “You wouldn’t understand.”

Benjamin couldn’t argue with him on this. He changed the subject back to the expo. “Is there any way we can solve this?”

Timothy patted his chest confidently. “The Donegans and Amirate are collaborating on this.

All I need to do is make a call. I’m sure Aaron will do me this favor.

He picked up his phone and called Aaron.

However, Aaron didn’t answer. When Timothy called him again, Aaron rejected the call, clearly implying that he wasn’t willing to talk to him.

Timothy put his phone awkwardly down, feeling embarrassed.

best friend had asked him for help. He had acted so

this.

guiltily, “I think he’s busy. Let me

office. He

this. He would have to try to get through to

in an exclusive boutique where only VIPs were allowed. All the

rejected the phone

Darai. He’s

Grace carefully, worried that she still had lingering feelings

Benjamin.

allowing the designer to measure her

me,

at herself in the mirror. She looked healthier now and exuded

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a completely different woman from the disheveled one who

of her was the real Grace Lewis. Benjamin could

A figure threw himself at Grace, enveloping

her best friend, Emily Jenkins. She teared up and held back a sob. “I missed you

go of her. “You heartless woman. How could you not contact me for three years? I just heard from Caleb that you got divorced. Am I your best friend

blinked back her tears. “You’ll always be my best friend. I was just

said, “You tried to stop me back then, but I refused