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 he never said anything after that,

this had happened.

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

way, he wouldn’t know who she

1501 was booked by the company, and nothing could be

finally pulled up the

morning. Today, Dorothy had to accompany her manager, Percy, to Harmony

below the stop-loss line. The other party demanded to increase the investment; otherwise, they would sell

department was fortunate to be in the light of the president and took

to the hotel lobby with her documents. Not long after, Karen came down, mumbling unhappily. “Mr. Percy insisted that we, the Prosperity Consortium, were not the ones to add more investments. But when I went to the

you.” Dorothy pulled Karen to one side. Before she could say anything, she saw a tall figure surrounded by

It was Everett.

night and was now in a black suit that fit him perfectly. His thick eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and his thin lips were tightly pursed. He seemed to be listening

direction.

handsome face was always sharply defined, and nobly

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