Master Odell’s Secret Ex-wife

“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?”

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

him

to

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

set in. She closed her eyes and began to drift off to sleep.

not have noticed that she was falling asleep. At some point during the lull, he turned to her. “Are you going back to

could only hear her steady breathing. He took another look

had when she was sleeping made

…

seeped into the

and

was the only one in the

food set on the table. She smiled faintly, then she got out

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

of jewelry he had gotten

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

surface of the diamond was reflective and glittered underneath the light. It was the same necklace that

of the highlight pieces at the exhibition.

If people noticed her paying out of her pocket to buy the necklace, it would certainly drive controversy since people