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.

Cornelia shot Jeremy a message: [Jeremy, I’m heading back tonight. You in

the clock. It was a little past eleven at night in Paris, which made it early morning back home. Jeremy should’ve been out cold, likely wouldn’t reply.

should’ve been in dreamland got back to her: [Safe travels!]

asked: [Are you still up, or did you wake

replied: [I’m still

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 you.]

simply because she was too engrossed in her chat with Jeremy. When she hit send, Marcus couldn’t help but chuckle. On the

Jeremy had told her he sometimes had to travel

[So when are you getting

back to Riverton with you.” Marcus wanted to say, but he held

when he’d 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 his identity as

a definite answer, only replying: [I’ve been up to my ears in work recently, so I

Cornelia said: [Oh]

online. The two times we met, you were sober, but I couldn’t recognize you. I didn’t even get a good look at your face. In

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