Ida gave him a look, then peeked into the suite, asking, "What are you up to?"
Chase shrugged his shoulders, grinning, "Just took a bath, can't you tell?"
Ida brushed past him and strode straight into the suite. She was expecting some kind of scandalous scene but found the bed spotless with no sign of a woman whatsoever.
"Where's your girlfriend?" Ida turned to ask him.
Chase closed the suite door, toweling off his hair, "Tell me about it! She came to the hotel with me but wouldn't let me touch her. What a bore. So I had her sent home."
Ida adjusted her gold-rimmed glasses, pulled up a chair, and sat down, "If you want Belinda, Mr. Blanchet's niece, to get over you, you don't have to humiliate her like this. You know she's into you, and you still asked her to deliver contraceptives for you and another woman. Are you even human? The boss is pissed knowing you did this."
Having dried his hair, Chase tossed the towel aside and flopped onto the bed, "Ida, aren't you and the boss being a bit too tough on me? Does she look like she's over me at all? To make a woman get over me, I need to make her despise me first, right?"
Ida took out her phone and nodded at him, "Get up and put on your clothes!"
Chase actually got up. While getting dressed, he asked, "What's up? Do we have somewhere to be?"
"Get dressed first." Ida didn't fuss as she propped her phone on the table.
Chase didn't ask any further. He went to the bathroom, got dressed, and then came out, "Let's go. Where are... Ouch!"
Before he could finish, Ida punched him in the face.
Hearing the hidden message in Chase's words, Ida lifted her foot, stopped the recording on her phone, then turned back to ask, "What have you discovered? Spit it out!"
Chase got up and dusted himself off. Luckily, he was not bothered by the beating and scolding he had just received. He said seriously, "I've had a bad feeling about this for a while. Theo seems to care a lot about the boss, but he never got a marriage certificate with her. The boss doesn't say it, but I think that really bothers her!
Today, when I heard that Theo left the boss to go on a business trip, I had someone track his flight and had someone at M State airport to see if he really was on a business trip.
Guess what? I was right! That rat Theo went to M State to see another woman!"
After hearing this, Ida frowned, "Who?"
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