Chapter 2

In the wee hours, Dorothy woke up. The man beside her was still deep in sleep, his strong arm wrapped around her completely. His steady breathing tickled her neck.

Her last bit of drunkenness had completely faded away due to the aching and numbness between her legs, and so had her reason.

What the hell had she done?

She had actually slept with her boss?!

Dorothy’s breath hitched. She carefully extricated herself from his arms and hurriedly got out of bed, dressed up, packed her stuff, and bolted from room 1501, heading for the hotel reception to book another room.

It was when she was paying with her phone that she realized that it wasn’t Karen’s contact she had asked for last night.

That was clearly Everett’s contact.

created a WhatsApp group, and everyone added each other as

that it was Everett who had added her first, but he never

this

booked room for a while to calm down. Then she took out her phone, left the junior high school group, changed her online name from Dorothy to Lily, and replaced her profile picture with a photo of a girl she found

know

by the company, and nothing could be traced.

up the quilt and

rang early the next morning. Today, Dorothy had to accompany her manager, Percy, to Harmony Ventures to

below the stop-loss line. The other party

light of the

she rushed to the hotel lobby with her documents. Not long after, Karen came down, mumbling unhappily. “Mr. Percy insisted that we, the Prosperity Consortium, were not the ones to add more investments. But when I went to the

pulled Karen to one side. Before she could say anything, she saw a tall figure surrounded by a crowd

It was Everett.

had changed out of his robe from last night and was now in a black suit that fit him perfectly. His thick eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and his thin

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