Chapter 54 "Brace your heart!"

Later that night, Marlyn made a call to Ethan.

“Did you happen to hear the conversation between your girl and me during lunch today?” Marlyn did not beat around the bush. He was getting ready to send the whole file, uncut, to the man on the other end of the phone call if he said he did not get the call. Marlyn was considering the man might have been busy, and answering the call during lunch break might have been difficult, so he asked casually.

“Thanks, Marlyn!” Ethan expressed his gratitude as soon as he answered the call again.

Ethan had been itching to call Marlyn ever since that call ended, but he kept reminding himself that he gave his words that he would wait for Lexy’s best friend to call him, not the other way around. Marlyn did not know his phone number because Ethan asked for Marlyn’s contacts before they parted last night, but Ethan made sure to send a very short message introducing he owned the number of the sender. And Marlyn was able to make that call during lunch thr