My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

I looked up and paused. "Hendrix, is Doctor Saunders in Mesville?"

He nodded. "The company is expanding and Josiah is in charge of it. I've also been busy. What's the matter?"

"Can you ask him to do me a favor?" I really didn't feel at ease about lan and Monique. For the past few months, I had not heard anything from Monique.

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"Well, there's a dinner gathering tonight. You can ask Josiah about it later." Hendrix paused and frowned, when saw that I wasn't moving when I had already prepared to leave. "What's wrong? Don't you feel like going anymore?"

I nodded. "Monique and lan have gone to Mesville."

He nodded slightly. "Okay. I'll head out to do something and pick you up for dinner tonight!"

"No, it's fine, I'll drive there myself!"

"Do you realize that it has become a habit of yours to reject me?"

face, I said

then!" Saying that, Hendrix left

Was he angry?

my forehead to rub it, feeling as

the evening when I arrived at the Imperial Restaurant. Everyone was already there when

the room. One of them was Calvin Hammer whom I saw the other day and Troy Lawson,

I had met a few times for work, so we weren't very familiar

at Calvin. Wasn't

was just like what Kelsey said. He had so much power that the police

power could sweep everything under the rug. It was neither that corrupted nor

from the vicious, violent man that I saw the other day. He looked very much like a gentleman that wasn't even capable of such violent

man change

my head, trying my best to maintain a smile on

once everybody was seated. He then started

about work. They were talking about letting Alford Audit handle Ucrebury's Roberts Group's audit that year as