Chapter 81

The room was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop. After a long pause, Ethan finally spoke.

"I'm sorry we're meeting like this."

They had already ordered a whole table of food before I arrived. As soon as Ethan spoke, I looked at the fancy dishes on the table.

My stomach felt uneasy, though I wasn't sure if it was from hunger or something else. I felt a burning discomfort and a queasy urge to throw up.

1 forced a smile, but Ethan's apology didn't mean much to me. It felt like a pointless gesture-saying sorry while still causing trouble. I couldn't understand why he even bothered to apologize.

1 picked up the utensils and took a bite of the food. "Have you been looking into my background?

his glass so tightly that his knucides turned white. I swallowed and turned to face him, my

you know Mr. Minogue is the date Jack set

he just

the dishes in front of me. "Jack is using my grandmother to blackmail me into marrying Mr. Minogue, offering a 200 million dollar wedding gift to patch up Wiley Group's financial troubles." The food was so spicy it was making my throat hurt. I took a sip of the drink next to me. I couldn't tell

was

his knuckles were site. His voice was rough when he said, "I don't know, I'm

cut Ethan of "What do you want to offer me to

bag, and said, "Send a project to Wiley Group. It doesn't have to be big, just something enough to cover the debt "When the project is delivered, I'll tell my lawyer to drop the case." Then, I

soon as I walked out of the restaurant, the cold wind hit

back to school yet, so I just

all over, but I wasn't sure if the chill

I put in, it seemed the Leah would finally face consequences, only for it

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