Blind Date Turned Proposal

Arnold dragged Josie to a desolate spot and released his grip on her. The bright lights illuminated the slap marks on his face.

Panting heavily, Josie confronted him, “Is it true?”

“D”mn you, yes!” Arnold bellowed angrily, his neck veins bulging. “I pushed the workers to work extra hours during the night!”

After learning the truth, Josie took a step back. “Did you go back to using the shoddy materials?”

Arnold turned his face away. “It doesn’t matter now; talking about this is pointless.”

Pointless?

Josie had taken on many projects, and there had never been any mistakes or accidents. But this time, there was a possibility that lives were lost.

She gazed at the collapsed area, now a ruin, dark and starkly contrasting to the light on this side.

“Why did you do this? You already have an alliance with the Olsen family. You can’t be short. of money. Why did you take it this far?”

She kept pushing Arnold for answers, desperate to understand the motives behind his selfish. decision.

Arnold remained tight-lipped.

died on New Year’s Eve. Do you know what that

across the entire country. Haven’t there been casualties before? Even the Russell Group had its share of accidents. I

he punched the

Group incident is why I supervised this project so closely! Our history

secretly pressure the site workers

after the project’s completion,

lead him into

then had now made sense; they were only trying to

across. his lips, “No matter what challenges the Carter Group encounters, just like

took her a while to

were when you asked me if I’d be your

unresolved emotions at Josie’s

asked if were up for it. Do you remember what

situation was far from what Arnold had promised her back then.

on his face, Arnold turned away. He located a safety helmet, which he promptly placed on her head. “Leave it to me; I know what to do. Everyone will still be lost in the