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!

a random piece of

floor, she was stopped right out of the elevator by the CEO’s

need to

and down and asked sternly, “Do you have an

“No.”

straightforward. “Then

bend the rules a bit? Just pass a message for me. Tell him Dorothy urgently needs to see him; he’ll definitely

defeated, a deep voice came from the

“Let her in.”

the secretary finally

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

tugged at her lips. “Mr. Lopez, did you find

and walked towards her.

intense, causing Dorothy

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

I sent a text to the wrong person that night. I don’t remember anything after that. I’m really just here to get the contract

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