Chapter 6

“Karen, it’s urgent. Super urgent! Can you somehow get Mr. Lopez’s phone number?”

Dorothy had deleted Everett’s contact. She even left the online group they shared, so the only person she could turn to now was Karen.

The voice on the other side was clearly still groggy from sleep. “Who?!”

“Everett.”

“If you’re sleepwalking, go back to sleep.”

“I don’t have time to explain. It’s really urgent!”

The project partner’s supervisor had signed the contract and left the country. She couldn’t possibly ask him to return just to sign another contract with her.

Karen sensed her seriousness, sat up in bed, and said, “I can’t get his number, but you can go find him in his room, right?”

Right!

phone, threw on a random piece of clothing,

that floor, she was stopped

to see Mr.

and

“No.”

was straightforward. “Then

for me. Tell him Dorothy urgently needs to see

was feeling defeated, a deep

“Let her in.”

order, the secretary finally let her in.

door and saw Everett still in his dark silk robe, standing

tugged at her lips. “Mr. Lopez, did you find a contract the other

day?” Everett raised an eyebrow and walked towards her. “Which day are you

intense, causing Dorothy to instinctively step

subject

sent a text to the wrong person that night. I don’t remember

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