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.

but it never came. It turned out that the phone he

the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, typically bustling with servers and guests, was now

hurriedly arrived and almost peed

new girls

she think she has to dare provoke Mrs. Russell… She’s practically

day-to-day management in recent years. However, it remained the most profitable company in the entire Wavery underworld. Its influence

cancel someone, it would spell

with an automatic -recording function, he pressed a button to replay the previous conversation.

it once, Dexter rewound and listened to it again.

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

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entire conversation played out for a grueling ten minutes, leaving everyone in the room holding their

ever called you dumb, Mrs. Russell?”

segment three times in a row.

Larry couldn’t help but feel a

for trouble actively; most of the time, he couldn’t be bothered. However, if he intentionally made someone’s life difficult, that person wouldn’t be

time.

my wife’s call just now?”

his phone, his countenance turning increasingly ominous.