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.

eagerly for Josie’s call all night, but it never came. It turned out that

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

the manager hurriedly arrived and almost peed in his pants,

of the new girls here

to dare provoke Mrs.

from its day-to-day management in recent years. However, it remained the most profitable company in the entire

Dexter ever decided to cancel someone, it

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

Dexter rewound and listened

wouldn’t disturb him right now. You know how men can

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conversation played out for a grueling ten minutes, leaving

anyone ever called you dumb, Mrs. Russell?”

segment three times in a row.

feel a surge of nervousness.

one to look for trouble actively; most of the time, he couldn’t be bothered. However, if he

time.

it that answered my

pocketed his phone, his countenance turning