“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 comes."

him

still trying to be mysterious about

it was very reassuring to know that he had something planned. She

felt a wave of sleepiness set in. She closed

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

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

had when she was sleeping made him

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

up, she stretched and

gone, so she was

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

addition to the still-warm breakfast, there was also the same fresh bouquet of roses he brought for her when he visited last night. Furthermore,

what kind of jewelry he had

very curious and quickly opened the sack which contained a tiny, intricate box. She opened

The surface of the diamond was reflective and glittered underneath the light.

one of the highlight

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

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