Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

Chapter 1178

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But Francis was already gone from the ballroom.

So, Caroline went looking for him, figuring he might be in his room.

That was when... she accidentally walked straight into Eddy and Rebecca White's honeymoon suite!

When Caroline finally came to, she found herself lying next to a man she'd never seen before... In that moment, she felt like her soul had left her body.

Before the man woke up, she scrambled to get dressed and hurried back to her

own room.

She was terrified.

She had no idea how it had happened, but she had a boyfriend, and she couldn't imagine what Francis would do if he ever found out she'd spent the night with a complete stranger...

Would he ever want her again?

Caroline couldn't even begin to process it. All she wanted was to get away.

She left the hotel in a rush, not even saying goodbye to Francis.

She never could have guessed...

on that same night... he'd

was snapped back to the

uncertain. "So... that night, I was drugged -because of

out a heavy

point in hiding it now. The truth was

was your business rivals?" Caroline's eyes were

nodded again, barely moving his head.

he was supposed to meet with some big shots from MK Capital for a crucial dinner-think steak and red wine at the

make him miss the meeting, so they pulled

about the partnership. He'd lose the deal, and they'd swoop

the meeting, and the project

rivals didn't realize

in the process,

people who had just

than

very night...

that they would've cared anyway if they'd

was the whole

Francis finished, the air in the room felt heavy. No one said a word for

his older brother to Caroline, then quietly turned away. He knew about all

his

him was that the man who'd taken

understand

it was because of Francis that Caroline had ended up in