“I’m sleepy. Let’s talk about it next time.” Ellen politely wrapped up the discussion before terminating the call. After setting her phone into silent mode, she drifted into dreamland.

At that moment, the smoking Harvey cursed in his car, “What the f*ck? If you weren’t that pretty and loaded, I wouldn’t have set my eyes on you.”

He condemned orphans like Ellen because she was not from a powerful family to bolster his life. Thus, his parents told him to marry her to rip her off over that demolition payment. He need not ask her for kids to make it easy to bring up a divorce a few years later. By then, he could still marry an influential woman who would be the godsend to his breakthrough in life.

Ellen was merely the springboard for his life. She had no one to turn to even if she was tricked. Murray and Connor were acquaintances, so Harvey was aware of. Connor’s apathy toward her.

The weekend passed just like that. Ellen went to work at 8.30AM. When it was barely 9.00AM, a man holding a bouquet appeared. She intended to run away at the sheer look of the incoming person. Oh, my goodness! Why is Harvey here?

right. In the end, his gaze landed on the receptionist’s desk

at the desk. Despite her intentional avoidance,

pretty?”

stern face. “Mr. Fuller, it’s the

decided to be thick-skinned until the end. “I’ll be sending flowers

had already exited

he opened the door to hop into the car, she caught up.

car almost ran into her. Fortunately, the driver reacted quickly enough to step on the brakes

it was none other than Ellen, he broke

his relief, she was unscathed. Holding onto the bouquet, she was talking to

please take back the flowers.

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