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?"

just those around Ilsa either-Gina, Theo and everyone else could see

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

him in confusion when his phone

a call from his father Monrad Whiteson, so

was screaming at once. "What the hell did you say to Mr. Gene Pearce?! He's threatening to kill us

was howling at him in rage and despair, Frank kindly turned

you,

"I don't care who you upset or how you insulted Mr. Pearce-you will call Mr.

own family, do you understand?!d was planning on living a couple of years more, so why the fuck would you insult Mr. Pearce out

as Monrad kept yelling over the

"H-How...?"

Timothy Clarke and his family had presumed that Frank's call was just an act, and their minds were thus

gulped as he stared at Frank in

really is Gene