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?"

Theo and everyone else could

That's quicker than I thought... I guess

looked at him in confusion when

call from his father Monrad Whiteson,

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

at him in rage and despair, Frank kindly turned on the speakers for

you,

who you upset or how you insulted Mr. Pearce-you will call Mr. Pearce right now and beg for mercy on your

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

at once silent as Monrad kept yelling over the

"H-How...?"

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

gulped as

is