Chapter 422

Dorothy knew that Everett’s insistence on having her return to the Lopez Corporation was a setup–a chess move in his grand strategy. And sure enough, barely a day back and he was already itching to introduce her to Langston, and then he would find out what was going on!

As Dorothy pieced this together, she reminded herself to tread carefully around this man. Traps could lurk in the most innocuous of places.

She hoped that when she did see Langston, nothing would give them away.

Deep down, though, she yearned to see her son, to know how he was doing.

“You don’t seem surprised about my having a son, Everett suddenly said, breaking into her thoughts

Dorothy snapped back to the present, shrugged nonchalantly, and said, “Should I be? We’ve been divorced for over four years. You’re a grown man, so remarrying and having kids is hardly unusual.”

“announced my marriage this year.”

“Oh, well then, congratulations!”

She had zero interest in prolonging this conversation.

And she certainly didn’t want to dive into a chat about Everett’s new bride, which would only remind her of the bite marks she had seen on his shoulder!

“I thought you’d be curious about my marriage.”

mountain

nod, he continued driving towards

outside his

was all too familiar with the place, having just been there a few days ago.

came around to open the car door for

in? If you’ve arranged for your son to be taken care of,

prefer to cook myself. You haven’t had lunch,

married, I’m

both married that there’s nothing

Dorothy was speechless.

sound reasonable,

to get out of the car or

Kenneth calling!

name ‘Kenneth‘ was large enough

and walked to the side to answer

No, I ljaven’t forgotten, you’ll pick me up after and we’ll go

hanging up, she looked up to find

Hadn’t he left?

he just standing there,

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