Wife by Day, Boss by Night by Thalia Quillspeak

Chapter 5

The following evening, as the sun dipped below the horizon, Natalie gracefully entered the River View Hall that Samuel had told her about. She was in a light aquamarine gown, her high heels clicking rhythmically on the marble floor as she sashayed through the door.

She paused at the threshold and casually swept over the crowd. She soon spotted Joseph, the General Manager of Samuel’s company, signaling her with a wave. Approaching him with an apologetic smile, she said, “Sorry, I’m late. Joseph. Traffic was a beast.”

Joseph waved off her apology with a chuckle as Samuel had asked him to play host to Natalie.

Turning to the man beside him, Joseph introduced, “Mr. Foster, this is Miss Natalie Wright. freshly returned from abroad as of yesterday.”

Shawn Foster, a man in his early thirties who had carved out a name for himself in Streamville thanks to the influence of the Foster family despite his age, gave Natalie a once–over. His initial annoyance at her tardiness vanished when he took in her features.

hand casually. “Pleased to meet you,

family had been in talks with the Wright family’s company for a media collaboration project. The Wright family wasn’t on par with the Foster family, so what

years before. She became more elegant, with an air of sophistication.

smile, eyeing the hand she offered with an unreadable expression and deliberately not touching it. “The last time I saw you, you

family. Audrey had taken her there, and he had asked her to dance, but Natalie had refused. It wasn’t out of arrogance,

him. “Consider this drink a small token of my apology.” With that, she tilted her head back and downed the crimson

even the act of her drinking somehow alluring, her slender neck, her delicate jawline. No wonder Brian had failed

finishing her drink, Natalie offered him a polite

Foster said scornfully.

me, who would dare to get

can make me want to