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.

was Everett who had added her first, but he never said anything after that,

this had

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 a girl she found online.

know who

by the company, and nothing could

up the quilt

had to accompany her manager, Percy, to Harmony

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

the light of the president and took a private plane to Fujinon City for

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

to one side. Before she

It was Everett.

out of his robe from last night and was now in a black suit that fit him perfectly. His thick eyebrows were slightly furrowed,

direction.

was always sharply defined, and nobly arrogant. His oppressive aura could make the

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