“Sure.” Roland smiled. "I'll tell you more about it when we get back."

“Alright.”

After they finished their meal, she went to the hotel with him.

After they took a shower, they huddled in bed together.

Isabel leaned over Roland’s shoulder, using it as a pillow, then she threw her leg over him as well to make herself comfortable. With that, she prompted him, “You can start now.”

Roland gently stroked her hair and began, "Rockwell Corporation is going to face a crisis very soon. I plan to take advantage of that window and take over.”

An upcoming crisis?

Isabel was taken aback by this and asked, "How do you know that there will be an upcoming crisis?"

Was he the one setting it up?

Roland remarked with a wry smile, “No, I have nothing to do with it. It’s a consequence of some the malpractices conducted by their internal management over the past few years."

"Oh." Isabel continued probing, “How do you plan to make your move?”

darkened. After a moment, he smiled mysteriously. "You’ll know when the time

him playfully.

still trying to be mysterious about

reassuring to know that he had something planned. She had faith in him, knowing that he had

that her tension was relieved, she felt a wave of sleepiness set in. She closed her eyes and began to drift

that she was falling asleep. At some point during the lull, he turned

he could only hear her steady breathing. He took another look at her

she had when she was

the room in between the cracks of the

stretched and sat up on

was the only one in the

noticed a container filled with food set on the table. She smiled faintly,

for her when he visited last night.

jewelry he had

opened the sack which contained a tiny, intricate box. She opened the box and found a sparkling

the light. It was the same necklace that caught her eye at the exhibition, but she had

one of the highlight

the time. If people noticed her paying out of her pocket to buy the necklace, it would certainly drive controversy since people would gossip about her being able to afford such

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