“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?”

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

punched him

was still trying to be mysterious about it!

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

of sleepiness set in. She closed her

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

hear her steady breathing. He took another look at

serene look she had when she was sleeping made him smile

into the

she stretched and

gone, so she was the only one in the room.

with food set on the table. She smiled faintly,

brought for her when he visited last night. Furthermore, there was a small sack that contained jewelry inside.

jewelry he had

which contained a tiny, intricate box. She

and glittered underneath the light. It was

one of the highlight

because she could not afford it, but because there had been too many people present at 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

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