Cordelia froze. Once she heard Jesse’s voice now, everything in her automatically shifted to fight mode. She looked at him in alert.

Jesse could not help chuckling when he came close and saw her like this. He turned to Annie. “You can go back. Cordelia stays.”

Annie could only leave first, but she kept turning back to check on Cordelia, worried. Everyone knew about Jesse’s ulterior thoughts regarding Cordelia. Was he up to something by retaining her alone?

Annie stopped when she got to the company exit.

Before she and Cordelia went on the business trip together previously, the company regulation stated that each employee had to leave an emergency contact with both the company and their partner. She remembered that Cordelia had saved her husband, Marcus, as the contact.

Annie searched for Marcus’ number from her phone contacts and sent him a text after a moment of hesitation.

Jesse smirked at Cordelia in the office.

“What a capable junior I have.” He looked her up and down. “The company hasn’t been able to score Centrolis’ Bayers for years, but you managed to push the sales proposal in right away! Amazing, amazing!”

Cordelia’s expression was impassive. “Is this why you’ve asked me to stay back?”

“Of course not.” Jesse cleared his throat. “There’s a business dinner tonight. Come along!”

Cordelia looked at him loathingly, but he only grinned with nonchalance.

annoyed her with it. Since he could not have her, she could become his

ask you.” Jesse smirked darkly. “But you’re the only pretty one in the company. Sometimes, it’s troublesome

“My husband’s waiting for me at

him dinner?” Jesse scoffed. “What?

your business whether my husband can take care of himself or not, but if you dare provoke me again, he’ll

and stopped the

Mr. Johnson specifically asked for you. I’m only a messenger. If you refuse to go

of his arm after that, leaving Cordelia

at stake here. She could only give in even if she

the Eterous Hotel. The moment she stepped into the room, she saw a handsome man sitting in the main

but now that she was seeing from such a close distance, Annie was right—the man was better looking than his

when he saw her enter before he felt chills down his spine. When he came in just now, Michael and Jesse hurried to pander to him and told him mysteriously that a beautiful

out about this…’ Josiah sucked in a cold breath and sprang up, his

Cordelia

Josiah

no matter how successful a man was, he would barely pass up on a beautiful

Michael gave her

the latter anxiously stopped her. “No, no! Don’t… You don’t

men were

droplets of sweat dotted his forehead, and he had no idea where

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