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 the time comes."

punched him playfully.

was still trying to be mysterious about

know that he had something planned. She had

set in. She closed her eyes and began

that she was falling asleep. At some point during the lull, he turned to her. “Are you going

steady breathing. He took another look at her and noticed that she was already peacefully asleep.

had when she

…

next morning, a ray of sunlight seeped into the room

up, she stretched and sat up

gone, so she was the only one

noticed a container filled with food set on the table. She smiled faintly, then she got out of bed and sat

brought for her when he visited last

what kind of jewelry he had gotten for her.

curious and quickly opened the sack which contained a tiny, intricate box. She opened the box and found a sparkling diamond necklace

of the diamond was reflective and glittered underneath the light. It was the same necklace that caught her eye at the exhibition, but she

of the highlight

afford it, but because there had been too many people present at the time. If people noticed her paying out