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!

quickly hung up the phone, threw on a random piece of

she was stopped right out of

to see Mr.

her up and down and asked sternly, “Do you have an appointment?”

“No.”

secretary was straightforward. “Then

message for me. Tell him Dorothy urgently needs to see him; he’ll definitely want to see me.” But the

defeated, a deep voice came

“Let her in.”

the secretary

suite door and saw Everett still in his dark silk robe, standing by the window with a cup of black coffee, sipping

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

and walked towards her. “Which

pressure he radiated was intense, causing

purpose. Changing the subject wouldn’t help, so she just laid it all out.

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

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