Nicole rubbed her fingers lightly as she thought about John’s words. She couldn’t help but feel that Evan had crossed a line this time—his actions had utterly humiliated her.

She looked up at Evan without a trace of fear on her face. “Mr. Seet, the Lane Corporation might be in dire straits right now, but I won’t sell my body because of that!”

“I haven’t played any of the emotional games you’ve accused me of playing. As for throwing myself at you, you can dream on!”

“…”

Evan froze. So much for John’s reminder—Nicole had completely misunderstood his words.

However, Evan took an issue with her denial of throwing herself at him…

Looking up at Nicole, he smiled blithely and said suddenly, “When you’re drunk, you do throw yourself at me, though.”

Nicole frowned, her cheeks flushing red with embarrassment.

“Evan Seet,” she snapped, “why exactly have you invited me here today?”

Seeing her furious expression, Evan coughed slightly.

“I called you here to talk about our company’s partnership. Let’s get serious!”

Nicole looked at him suspiciously. There was something off about Evan’s behavior today.

be making use of their partnership to make a move on

was quite unlikely. After all, Nicole had gotten drunk yesterday night, and it would have been a wonderful opportunity for Evan to take advantage of her. However, he hadn’t done

theories. Ultimately, she decided, it was better to keep her guard up around this man. Heaving a sigh, she sat

her requests, Evan agreed to them without even pausing to consider

continued to approve them, Nicole started feeling a little

a loss. Why was he suddenly opening his wallet so

suspected that he had an ulterior

the contract. Seeing Evan lifted up the pen and signed his name on

piece of paper was the Lane Corporation’s way out

sincerely before placing that piece of paper into

favor.

quickly put on a serious expression and rejected her request, claiming that the

said rather forlornly. “Just forget that I

was going to be

the president’s office,

lips curved into a meaningful

silly woman! I’ll see you

picked Nina and Maya

set foot in the house, she started whining about how she wanted

a migraine coming

to tell her the recipe. How was

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