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...

tell her that on that same night... he'd ended

back to the

voice uncertain. "So... that night, I

let out a heavy

was no point in hiding it now. The truth was

it was your business rivals?" Caroline's eyes

barely moving his head.

meet with some big shots from MK Capital for a crucial dinner-think steak and red

wanted to sabotage him, make him miss the meeting, so they pulled

he didn't care about the partnership. He'd lose

worked. Francis missed the meeting, and the project slipped

what his rivals didn't

in the process,

ended up hurting two people who had

than

very night...

that they would've cared anyway if

the

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

Caroline, then quietly turned

truth about the "allowance" had come out, his brother

what Francis hadn't told him was that the man

could understand his

Francis that Caroline had ended