Three days after Ashton and Joseph had left, the Facebook account of a news channel in Dartan announced that the country’s homegrown air-conditioner manufacturing company was in the final stage of acquiring Eisen Corporation. Ashton sounded enervated when he gave me a call in the evening.

“I supposed it wasn’t smooth sailing?” I asked.

“Yeah…” He let out a deep sigh. “I’m working things out on the other side. There might be a chance of turning the tables.”

“And what would that be?”

“You’ll get the details later on. It’s not the right time to talk about it yet. How are you feeling these couple of days? Any pregnancy sickness?” He curtly changed the topic.

Perhaps he needed some good news to counterbalance the bad ones that had been troubling the company recently. I was stunned momentarily before telling him that I had been fairly well and things were as usual. I felt sorry for him, though.

to feign indifference. “I thought your life would be upside down without me by your side. It

went with the flow and trifled

my swagger had made

would bring in almost ten billion.

“I’ll be back in a week the most. Before I get back, stay

again and again. Of course, I’d never forget that. “I know, I know. And how about

can smell jealousy, Scarlett. Hahaha…” he

It’s the pretty ladies that I care about, not

guessed I was slightly vexed. After hanging up, I threw the phone aside. My peripheral vision caught sun rays peeking through the curtains.

the number of bodyguards around the villa had doubled. The surveillance was watertight to the

started to crawl down my spine. I could sense that a storm was

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