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 even

second floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, typically bustling with servers and guests,

arrived and almost peed

of the new girls

think she has to dare provoke

years. However, it remained the most profitable company in the entire Wavery underworld. Its influence was respected and feared by both the realms of organized crime and politics.

someone, it would spell their

the sofa, idly tinkering with his phone. Equipped with an automatic -recording function, he pressed a button to replay the previous

once, Dexter rewound and listened to it again.

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.

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

ever called you dumb, Mrs.

this segment three times in a row.

but feel a surge of nervousness.

most of the time, he couldn’t be bothered. However, if he intentionally made someone’s life difficult,

time.

that answered my wife’s

pocketed his phone, his countenance turning increasingly