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?”

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

him playfully.

to be

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

of sleepiness set in. She closed her eyes and began to drift

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

only hear her steady breathing. He took another look at her and noticed that she was

she had when she was sleeping made

…

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

woke up, she stretched and

she was the only

food set on the table. She smiled faintly, then she got out of bed and sat

there was also the same fresh bouquet of roses he brought for her when he visited last night. Furthermore, there

what kind of jewelry he

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

underneath the light. It was the same necklace

of the highlight pieces at the

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 afford such an