Blind Date Turned Proposal

The unexpected question caught everyone off guard.

Feeling humiliated and anxious, she hesitated for a moment before visibly flustering. “I’m his companion. he booked for the night!”

Companion? The word invoked various possibilities. Josie nodded slightly, “Oh, he’s booked a companion? I must have missed that part…”

The woman on the other end responded smugly, “Hasn’t anyone ever called you dumb, Mrs. Russell?”

“Hmm… you sound like the smarty pants here.” Josie retorted before promptly ending the call.

Two minutes later, Larry received a message on his phone, ‘Can you get someone to check on Mr. Russell’s phone?”

Larry was left perplexed, having endured a lengthy negotiation meeting only to be bombarded with an ambiguous message.

He showed his phone to Dexter, saying, “It’s a message from Mrs. Russell.”

Furrowing his brow, Dexter powered on the phone Moses recently delivered and was taken aback to find a

woman’s screensaver.

At that moment, everything clicked, and Dexter came to a supposition.

for Josie’s call all night, but it never came. It turned out that the phone he held wasn’t

of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, typically bustling with servers and guests, was now shrouded in an eerie silence.

hurriedly arrived and almost

of the new girls here provoked

dare provoke Mrs. Russell… She’s practically asking for trouble!” The manager

the most profitable company in the entire Wavery underworld.

ever decided to cancel someone, it would

his phone. Equipped with an automatic -recording function,

rewound and listened to

Mr. Russell is still hard at work, handling important matters. If I were you, I wouldn’t disturb him right now. You know how men can be-they easily grow weary of things and women. If you want to maintain your status as Mrs. Russell for longer, you must be submissive and heed the advice. Do you

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grueling ten minutes, leaving everyone in the room holding their breath, paralyzed with fear.

called you dumb, Mrs.

segment three times

couldn’t help but feel a surge of

be bothered.

time.

that answered my wife’s call

phone, his countenance turning