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?”

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

punched him

trying to

reassuring to know that he had something planned. She had

a wave of sleepiness set in. She closed her eyes

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

hear her steady breathing. He took another look

had when she

…

of sunlight seeped into the room in between the cracks of the

and sat up on the

was the only one in the room.

faintly, then she

roses he brought for her when he visited last night. Furthermore, there

of jewelry

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

light. It was

the highlight pieces at the exhibition.

she did not buy it was not 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