The Girlboss Begs for Remarriage by Chu

Theo snorted. "Oh, please. Anyone with a working brain can see through your stupid act already. There's no need to congratulate me."

Frank, however, simply kept smiling. "No, I'm congratulating you for something else entirely."

"Something else?"

Even before Theo could understand what Frank was talking about, his mother's phone started ringing.

While Ilsa was still sneering in contempt as she picked up, her face turned pale in an instant.

Her cheeks were drained of all color as if she had just fallen from heaven to hell, while her phone slipped from her fingers and dropped on the floor with a thud.

And over the phone, a man was roaring furiously, "You bitch! I'll kill you! I'll kill every last one of you!!!"

The people around could more or less hear him, even though Ilsa never turned on her phone's speaker. "What?"

was not just those around Ilsa either-Gina, Theo and everyone else

his head. "Huh. That's quicker than I thought... I guess

him in confusion when his phone started

it was a call from his father Monrad

He's threatening to kill us all! It's you and your mother's fault, isn't it?! Stop involving me in your

in rage and

warning you, Theo!"

or how you insulted Mr. Pearce-you will

own family, do you understand?!d was planning on living a couple of years more, so why the

courtyard was at once silent as Monrad

"H-How...?"

an act, and their minds were

Clarke, the bridegroom, gulped as he stared at

is