Master of his heart

Chapter 557

“Mr Dorsey, don’t worry. Ms. Brielle is bound to come back tonight. Patrick’s statement hung in the air as he fell silent, fully aware of how Michael’s tactics went straight for the jugular.

Indeed, Michael was the one who knew Max best, and thus, he knew exactly how to twist the knife to make it hurt the most. And Ms. Brielle wasn’t answering her phone, leaving everyone clueless about what was going on with her.

“Yeah.” Max’s tone was indifferent as he opened his laptop, seemingly having gotten his emotions under control.

Patrick had the housekeeper sweep up the fragments of the broken phone and equipped

Max with a new one.

The overseas acquisition had drained a lot of manpower and resources, and after a heavy initial promotional push, it required Max’s personal touch on many decisions. He couldn’t afford to drop the ball now, not with the hard work of several branches on the line for the past six months.

After pinpointing several issues and reviewing the report one last time to ensure there were no mistakes, he declared the meeting adjourned.

two hours. Later, Max left his study to sit on the sofa in the ground floor living room,

followed by her trip to the orphanage with someone else. Max wondered which issue

explained, he couldn’t bear to be angry with her. He had never wanted to

to see that it was already eleven o’clock. She was suddenly anxious and quickly stood up..

gone to bed, and Ricardo was playing with his phone on another sofa, seemingly busy texting someone. When he saw her wake up, he put

painfully empty. “Ricardo, why haven’t you gone home yet?” “I was worried about you. So I thought I’d wait until you were

of this nineteen–year–old boy’s concern for her. She got to her feet and saw that he had somehow produced

to get back, and someone’s

pad the Pud down and followed her can “Abight. Til walk

an esppit, but it was hard to refuse the gesture (ince she

Ricando standing by waiting for a nah But at this hour, finding a taxt near the piphanage was a fost comes the didnt know how long he would wait there alone,

flatly. Til drop you off where there are more people so you can get a cab back. Sorry, I really have an emergency tonight. Someone’s waiting for