The Abandoned Wife

Chapter 359 Keep It Between Us

As she had fallen asleep late the night before, Roxanne slept deeply but was awoken by her phone ringing early the following morning.

Unable to marshal her thoughts into coherence immediately upon waking up, she reached out blindly around her pillow for a long time before locating the source of the noise. Upon obtaining her phone and squinting at the screen, Roxanne answered groggily.

Colby sounded very anxious on the other end. "Something's happened, Dr. Jarvis."

Wide awake suddenly, Roxanne sat bolt upright. "What is it?" she asked hoarsely.

"A shipment of medicinal herb supplies we expected to receive this morning is still nowhere to be seen." Colby looked grave.

The medicinal herb supplier the research institute partnered with was usually very punctual in delivering their supply.

had been promised, the research institute would have received the goods at

medicinal herb supplies were not delivered on time, many projects would be shelved in less than two days. Their

froze. "Have you given our business

turned on speaker mode and swiftly

of them didn't even pick up. Those who did were vague and refused to offer

they had just told him they did not want to be partners anymore. Their beating around the bush was so discouraging that he did not even dare seek

heart sank as she scrambled to get dressed. "Noted," she replied. "I'm coming over

another word, she

the dining table when

had recovered sufficiently to attend kindergarten that day, and Archie

boys looked expectantly at Roxanne when she came down the stairs as they wanted

institute," she said apologetically. "I must hurry over. Ms. Lane will

hectic

hurried out the door without waiting for their

before to hand her work over