The CEO's Hidden Love: Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires novel Chapter 526

Dorothy nodded with a hint of resolve, "Alright, I'll be back in a jiffy."

She slipped into something more comfortable and headed out, making her way to Quincy's office. She found the door ajar, yet the room was devoid of life.

"She’s probably using the bathroom or got caught up in some urgent matter before coming back," she figured.

Dorothy didn't leave. She stood by the door, waiting, when her phone began to buzz.

She expected it was Karen, but instead, it was an unfamiliar number.

A call from back home.

Worried it might be the kids in some kind of trouble, she answered promptly.

The voice on the other end was tinged with impatience and a youthful edge, sounding like a high school student, "Hey, how old is this surveillance footage on your flash drive?"

It was Byte 7.

"Quite old," Dorothy whispered, glancing around to make sure no one was listening, "Are you having trouble with the restoration?"

The last thing she wanted was for Byte 7 to hit a dead end.

"Of course, it's a royal pain. You didn't think to mention that earlier?" Byte 7's tone carried the eternal irritability of someone who's perpetually sleep-deprived, "You round up the rest of my fee yet?"

His sudden pivot to money caught Dorothy off-guard, "I'm working on it! Can you recover the data sooner?"

"Nope! It's a real headache!"

Then what's the point of this call? She was confused.

"Stop trying to scrape together the cash. Just be my girl for a week, and we're even."

He wouldn’t lay his fingers on any girls, so being chosen by him was a privilege.