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?"

Ilsa either-Gina, Theo and

was smiling and shaking his head. "Huh. That's quicker than I thought...

at him in confusion when

it was a call from his father Monrad Whiteson, so he

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 me in

stunned that his own father was howling at him in rage and despair, Frank kindly turned on the speakers for

warning you, Theo!"

how you insulted Mr. Pearce-you will call Mr. Pearce right

a couple of

once silent as Monrad kept yelling over

"H-How...?"

family had presumed that Frank's call was just an act,

Clarke, the bridegroom, gulped as he stared at Frank

is