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.

stopped right out of the elevator by the CEO’s secretary.

to

looked her up and down and asked sternly, “Do you

“No.”

straightforward. “Then please

for me. Tell him Dorothy urgently needs to see him; he’ll definitely want to see me.”

Dorothy was feeling defeated, a deep voice came

“Let her in.”

order, the secretary finally let her

silk robe, standing by the window

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

towards

was intense, causing Dorothy to instinctively step

this on purpose. Changing the subject

Lopez, I sent a text to the wrong person that night. I don’t remember anything after that. I’m really

a wife.” He suddenly interrupted her, so Dorothy

“What?”

eyes locked onto her stunned

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