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.

that floor, she was stopped right out of the elevator by the CEO’s

to see Mr. Lopez”

and asked sternly, “Do you have an

“No.”

was straightforward.

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

was feeling defeated, a deep

“Let her in.”

the secretary finally

Everett still in his dark silk robe, standing by the window with a cup of

lips. “Mr. Lopez, did you find a

eyebrow and walked towards

intense, causing Dorothy to instinctively

doing this on purpose. Changing the subject wouldn’t help, so she just

to the wrong person that night. I don’t remember anything after that.

wife.” He suddenly interrupted her, so Dorothy didn’t catch on at

“What?”

eyes locked onto her

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