Chapter 6

“Karen, it’s urgent. Super urgent! Can you somehow get Mr. Lopez’s phone number?”

Dorothy had deleted Everett’s contact. She even left the online group they shared, so the only person she could turn to now was Karen.

The voice on the other side was clearly still groggy from sleep. “Who?!”

“Everett.”

“If you’re sleepwalking, go back to sleep.”

“I don’t have time to explain. It’s really urgent!”

The project partner’s supervisor had signed the contract and left the country. She couldn’t possibly ask him to return just to sign another contract with her.

Karen sensed her seriousness, sat up in bed, and said, “I can’t get his number, but you can go find him in his room, right?”

Right!

Dorothy quickly hung up the phone, threw on a random piece of clothing, and ran towards the hotel’s presidential suite.

she was stopped right out of the

need to

her up and down and asked sternly, “Do you have an

“No.”

straightforward. “Then

Just pass a message for me. Tell him Dorothy urgently needs to see

defeated, a

“Let her in.”

hearing Everett’s order, the secretary finally let her

dark silk robe, standing by the window with a cup of black coffee, sipping it from time

gaze fell on her, Dorothy awkwardly tugged at her lips. “Mr. Lopez, did you

towards her. “Which day are you referring

was intense, causing Dorothy to instinctively step back.

Changing the subject wouldn’t help, so she

to the wrong person that night. I don’t remember anything after that. I’m really just here to get the contract

He suddenly interrupted her, so

“What?”

his eyes locked

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