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.

came. It turned out that the phone he held wasn’t

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

hearing the situation, the manager hurriedly arrived and almost peed in

of the new girls here provoked

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

had gradually distanced himself from its day-to-day management in recent years. However, it remained the most profitable

to cancel someone,

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

once, Dexter rewound

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.

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conversation played out for a grueling ten minutes, leaving

anyone ever called you dumb, Mrs.

this segment three times in a

feel a surge

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.

it that answered my wife’s call

his phone, his countenance