The Mysterious Billionaire and His Substitute Bride

Chapter 33

A beam of sunlight fell on Janet’s face. She winced and rubbed her bleary eyes, realizing that it was already morning.

Her throat was dry, and there was a dull pounding at her temples. It appeared that she had been drunk the previous night.

Janet scratched at her messy hair and padded to the bathroom in a daze, intending to freshen herself up.

When she faced the mirror, however, she was horrified to find her neck and chest dotted with red marks, which were decidedly not insect bites.

“Ethan Lester!” Janet screamed at the top of her lungs, her face burning.

“You called for your husband?” Ethan said as he sauntered into the bathroom.

A thin sheen of sweat covered his sculpted face, and his gray shirt was damp at the chest. He must have gone running.

“What did you do to me last night?” Janet demanded, crossing her arms over her chest.

Ethan raised an eyebrow and looked pointedly at the hickeys around her neck. “You’re seriously asking me what I did to you? Shouldn’t you be asking what you did to me? You started it all. You clung to me and kept touching my body, rubbing my—”

“Stop it!”

Janet closed her eyes and put her hands up. “Did you think I would believe all these nonsense you’re spouting?”

There was no way she would do those things to him!

back with a crumpled shirt in his hand. “This is the evidence.

to take off his

away in a

had transpired, but only vague,

She had, indeed, taken the initiative to kiss Ethan in

expected that she would lose all common sense after a few glasses of

covered her face with her hands, wishing that a hole would open up below her and swallow her into an

voice deep and husky. “Here,

a sniff of the drink and realized that it was honey

down. The bitter taste of hangover had

mortification remained. Janet decided to ignore Ethan altogether and proceeded to freshen up for the day. She changed into a turtle-neck dress and rushed out

watched her the entire time, a small smile playing

as she arrived at the Larson Group, Janet was called into the

for the autumn and winter series,” Ike said. “We’ve come to the unanimous decision to use

forward. I will value any advice you give me.”

a newcomer, she didn’t think it was a good thing to show

feel free to ask your seniors.” Ike

response. She knew that the other designers present in the meeting likely disagreed

those designs are pretty ordinary,” Pamela

prior to Janet, and had been fully expecting that her designs would be selected this time around. Naturally, she

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