Chapter 407

Cornelia was at a loss for words.

Marcus went on, At least, I haven’t encountered such a thing up to now.

Cornelia could understand. After all, he was born into a wealthy family, with more dough than he could ever spend. He was able to do whatever he fancied. It’d be hard for anything to rain on his parade.

The matter with Skyler was temporarily put to bed. In the following days, Cornelia threw herself into work. She was swamped, barely even having time to catch some sleep, let alone chat with Jeremy.

In a blink of an eye, a month had passed and spring was around the corner. All their work in Paris was done and dusted, and the team was gearing up to head back to Riverton.

Cornelia was on the ball for booking the return flights and opted for a redeye. The nonstop flight from Paris to Riverton was a twelvehour haul. Landing around 6 in the evening local time, she could grab a bite with the longunseen Zack and Abigail.

plane took off, Cornelia shot Jeremy a message:

in Paris,

the man who should’ve been in

up, or did you wake up

[I’m

the midnight oil because of work? Or is there another reason you’re up? Whatever the reason, you shouldn’t pull an all–nighter. It’s no good for

was right next to her, simply because she was too engrossed in her chat

heat up. Jeremy had told her he sometimes had to travel overseas for work, which would result in a time difference. She hadn’t asked him where

asked: [So when are you

you.” Marcus wanted to say,

pluck up the courage to come clean about his identity. But when he’d come clean also depended on when she’d warm up to

been up to my ears in work

Cornelia said: [Oh]

saw bright eyes dim significantly first. Only after a few seconds did he see her message. She said: [I just want to see you as soon as possible. We’re legally married, but it feels like we’re dating online. The two times we met, you were sober, but I

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