Chapter 2

In the wee hours, Dorothy woke up. The man beside her was still deep in sleep, his strong arm wrapped around her completely. His steady breathing tickled her neck.

Her last bit of drunkenness had completely faded away due to the aching and numbness between her legs, and so had her reason.

What the hell had she done?

She had actually slept with her boss?!

Dorothy’s breath hitched. She carefully extricated herself from his arms and hurriedly got out of bed, dressed up, packed her stuff, and bolted from room 1501, heading for the hotel reception to book another room.

It was when she was paying with her phone that she realized that it wasn’t Karen’s contact she had asked for last night.

That was clearly Everett’s contact.

Years ago, at a junior high school reunion, the class monitor created a WhatsApp group, and everyone added each other as friends.

who had added her first, but

now this had happened.

room for a while to calm down. Then she took out her phone, left the junior high school group, changed her online name from Dorothy to Lily, and replaced her profile picture with a photo of

wouldn’t know who she

by the company, and nothing

pulled up the quilt and

early the next morning. Today, Dorothy had to accompany her

of this convertible bond project had dropped below the stop-loss line. The other party demanded to increase the investment; otherwise, they would sell the securities assets.

was urgent, so their investment department was fortunate to be in the light of the president and took a private

insisted that we, the Prosperity Consortium, were not the ones to add more investments. But when I went to the trust company to adjust the agreement, his name was

she could say anything, she saw a

It was Everett.

perfectly. His thick eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and his thin lips were tightly pursed.

direction.

in the business world. His deeply handsome face was always sharply defined, and nobly arrogant. His oppressive aura

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