“I have announced it in front of the press, so it’s definitely true!” Charles raised his eyebrow. “I’ll bring some candy over tomorrow to celebrate the good news while sharing it with you too, Daphne.”

“Umm, sure…”

As Charles had always been behaving like he was joking, Sonia was used to it. She pushed his hands away in response and impassively strode into her office.

“Get us a pot of tea and a cup of coffee with no sugar, please.” He followed her into her office after instructing Daphne. “Babe, once you’re done with your work, can we talk about the takeover of Continental Co.? I have just conducted an investigation on the company this morning…”

 

Meanwhile, Daphne kept her eyes on Charles as he walked into the office and she saw the door shut behind him shortly after he entered. His voice was no longer audible due to the closed door. At that moment, she tightened her grip on the documents in her hands while she had a forlorn expression on her face.

couldn’t focus on her work while his words went above her head. In the end, she

have a casual fling with a random stranger, it’s not a big deal! The only thing that stumped her was that her tolerance to alcohol was quite good but oddly enough, that wasn’t the case last night. I threw up in the bathroom last night while being fully conscious, so how did I end up in a drunken state?! Furthermore, she couldn’t even recall how she met that man and

realized that she had torn off that piece of paper on the notepad with his phone number earlier this morning.

friend request. She immediately flicked a message to him without even waiting for him to initiate

 

last night was just a fun thing for us. Let’s forget about it. That would be best

transfer of

to the emergency room last night, he was engulfed with worry. He arrived at the hospital only to be told that

consciousness. At that moment, her eyes were rimmed red as she held his hands before she sobbed, “Toby, I’m scared. Can you stay with

himself stayed with Tina. He noticed that Tina’s face still remained deathly pale in the morning, so he had no choice but to instruct Tom to bring him a laptop. By doing so, he

for his private number, so he deduced that it was Sonia who’d added him as a friend before he switched accounts to have a look. He had only just approved her friend request and was considering how to bring up last night’s incident when he received her message followed by a

stared at her message and his brows gradually furrowed while his expression

was a piece of news that popped up on the front of his screen. As he noticed that the news referred to Sonia, he subconsciously clicked on it to see Charles with his arms around her as he cleared the air about the rumors of Sonia and Carl to the members of the press.

of news combined with Sonia’s drunken words from last night made Toby

finished her video call with Julia. She was just about to ask Toby what was for lunch when she noticed that he was in a foul mood;

called out to him softly. “I noticed that you’ve been staring intently at your phone. Are

his phone upon hearing that. “I’m not busy. I’ll keep you company

like to have for lunch?” Then, she took the initiative to order food and unlocked her phone to do that. At that moment, she accidentally clicked into the news app on her phone before she glanced

saw that news pop up on my

on getting a divorce, but my heart’s now at peace,” she mentioned. “She has finally found her own happiness and maybe

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