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.

Everett who had added her first, but he

this had

phone, left the junior high school group, changed her online name from Dorothy to Lily, and replaced her profile

wouldn’t know who she was.

was booked by the company, and

she finally pulled up the quilt and went to

had to accompany her manager, Percy, to Harmony Ventures to discuss the

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

the light of the president and took a

the hotel lobby with her documents. Not long after, Karen came down, mumbling unhappily. “Mr. Percy insisted that we, the Prosperity Consortium, were

Don’t let him hear you.” Dorothy pulled Karen to one side. Before she could

It was Everett.

thick eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and his thin lips were tightly pursed. He seemed to be listening to a

direction.

infamous in the business world. His deeply handsome face was always sharply defined,

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