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?"

around Ilsa either-Gina, Theo and everyone else could

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

him in confusion when his phone started

a call from

bastard!" Monrad was screaming at once. "What the hell did you say to Mr. Gene Pearce?! He's threatening to kill us all! It's you and your mother's fault, isn't it?! Stop involving

father was howling at him in rage and despair, Frank kindly turned on the speakers for Theo so that

you, Theo!"

you insulted Mr. Pearce-you will call Mr. Pearce right now and

a couple of years more, so why the fuck would you insult Mr. Pearce out of the

at once silent as Monrad kept yelling over the phone

"H-How...?"

just an act, and their minds were

Clarke, the bridegroom, gulped as he stared at Frank in

really is Gene